WaterWater & Life & Life

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WaterWater

Colorless, inodorous, without taste and calories it is essential for life. Without water every man and animal would die. It is as important as food and air.

WaterWater

Water takes many different shapes on Earth: water vapor and clouds in the sky, waves and icebergs in the sea, glaciers in the mountains, aquifers in the ground, to name but a few. Through evaporation, precipitation, and runoff, water continuously turns from one form to another, in what is called the water cycle.

Water CycleWater Cycle

Symbols of waterSymbols of water

chaos,

instability,

variability,

cure,

wake,

clearance,

truth,

wisdom,

psyche,

danger

Water is considered to be a purifier in most religions, including Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Shinto. For instance, baptism in Christian churches is performed with the use of water.

In Celtic mythology, Sulis is the local goddess of thermal springs; in Hinduism, the Ganga is also personified as a goddess, while Saraswati has been referred to as goddess in Vedas.

In Greek and Roman mythology, Peneus was a river god, one of the three thousand Oceanids. Many Latter-Da Saints, or Mormons, believe that Satan has learned to control the Element of water, which is why missionairies are forbidden to swim, for fear of death.

water is the biggest agglomeration of life. in the lakes, meres and rivers there are many types of fish, mammals etc.

Plenty of life in Plenty of life in waterwater

Water – one of the Water – one of the ElementsElements

A Greek philosopher Empedocles held that water is one of the four classical elements along with fire, earth and air. Water was considered cold and moist.

We can hold water by building bridges…

…building ships…

…or building

dams.

Ancient civilizations came into being where the natural conditions guaranteed abundance of water, and in the place where they could build pockets, dams, irrigation chanells or aqueducts.

Using waterUsing water

An aqueduct is an artificial (man-made) channel that is made to transport water from one location to another. Roman

aqueducts were built all over the Roman Empire, from Germany to Africa, and especially in the city of Rome itself, where they totalled over 416 km.

After yearly flooding caused by the Nile, on the river bank there remained a layer of fertile black soil.

Life was dependent on flooding of the Nile. Ancient Egyptians prevented their land from becoming barren by building dams and then irrigating it.

WATER WILL

The origin of The origin of lifelife

All known forms of life depend on water. Water is a vital part of many metabolic processes within the body, and significant quantities of water are used during the digestion of food.

Absence of sweet water occurs in the wilderness places and so the poorest countries are for example: Mali, Nigeria, Chad, or Sudan.

Deficit of waterDeficit of water

The countries innumerated below have been arranged according to the amount of water per cubic metre a year starting with the countries suffering from the biggest deficit are:Malta, Catarrh, Singapur, Israel, Kenia, Algieria, Somalia etc.

When rains fail like in Somalia, it’s hard to hope for a better day…

In the picture we can see Ramdźan Mondol – a man from West Bengal in India, even when he has free water he is dying slowly because of arsenicism which makes water from low wall becames to be toxic.

Floods have been noticed from the earliest years, even before Christ. The Bible describes The Great Flood. Nowadays floods occur because of persistent or heavy rains. They can also be caused by quick melting of the snow.

FloodsFloods

Biblical floodBiblical flood Flood 1997/PolandFlood 1997/Poland

Prehistorical tsunami form Jukatan peninsula.

900 years b.c. powerful tsunami destroyed main centres of Peruwian civilization located along Pacific coast.

At the end of 2004 in Tajland tsunami killed many people, destroyed island, buildings . . .

TsunamiTsunami

A dam in Jordan

Station in Catarrh, Persian Gulf

Newada

Glaciers

Origin of energy

Origin of life

Origin of health

Waterway Recreation Recreation appropriationappropriations:

Using water in life:Using water in life:

Origin of Origin of lifelife

Recreation Recreation appropriationappropriations:• water massages

• hot springs

• water sports

Sources:

•Internet:- http://www.aquadocinter.pl- http://www.ekologia.gemapro.vip.alpha.pl- http://www.maitri.diecezja.gda.pl

•Magazyn „National Geographic”

•Magazyn „Świat Wiedzy”

•Encyklopedie multimedialne „Przyroda”

•etc.

Prepared by:Prepared by:

Students from second grade of 4th high

school in Bielsko-Biała (Poland) and Paulina

Maszlanka from grade 1.