Skip to main content LearnEnglish Kids Read and write Reading practice Level 3 reading Saving water Saving water Why do we need to save water? Practise your reading in English with this text. Help Do the preparation exercise first. Then read the text and do the other exercises. Preparation Reading text Saving water We need it to drink, wash, cook and flush the toilet. Farmers need it to grow our food. Factories need it to make the products (and their packaging) that we buy. Power stations need it to produce the energy we use. Yes - it's water! And we use a lot. That's OK – there's a lot of water on our planet! True! But did you know that we can't use most of it? That's because it's salt water (in seas and oceans) or freshwater which is ice or in the ground. In total, we can use less than 1 per cent of all the water on the planet! So why is it a problem now? Well, the world's population is increasing really fast, so more and more ...
