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Grain grown in
Mesopotamia
Stone for grinding
Only 2.5 percent of the wheat into flour
Earth’s water is fresh. It
is found mostly in rivers,
lakes, and glaciers.
Land of the rivers
The first cities were built in
Mesopotamia (now mainly Iraq)
around the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers. The rivers allowed goods
and people to move around and
provided essential water
to drink, cook with, and use
to water crops.
Stone sickle
for cutting
crops
Kayaking
Water sports
Without water there
would be fewer ways for us
to have fun. There would be We lose water
nothing to swim in or surf on, from our bodies
and no kayaking or sailing. There through sweating
would be no snow for skiing or when we are active
sledding and we could never and play sports.
build a snowman.
Bad for
the environment
More than 200 billion plastic
water bottles are used around
the world each year. Making the
bottles releases lots of harmful
gases into the air, and only one
in five bottles is recycled—
the rest are thrown out
as garbage.
Plastic water bottles
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