How Does Beth Geiger Use Pie Charts In Clean Water

In the book Clean Water by Beth Geiger, the author uses text features such as a pie chart to see how much water is drinkable. For example, on page 6, there are two pie charts. The first pie chart shows the percentage of the water in the ocean and the fresh water on earth. While the second shows that 2% of water is locked up as ice and only 1% of water is available for us to drink. Another text feature the author uses a maps. For instance, a map shown on page 9 demonstrates how much clean water is used each day in different continents. Such as America which uses the highest amount of water at 352 liters, while Africa uses the lowest amount of water at only 15 liters. These text features relate back to the main point of clean water.

Going back to the pie chart, one more thing that surprised me was that only 1% of water is clean on Earth. It’s surprising to me because if there is so many people on Earth, how have we not used up all the clean water yet? One thing that the author expected me to know what watershed I lived in (on page 12). Then by using this website called Surf Your Watershed, which made me able to find the watershed I lived in which is 17110012. Another thing the author expects, on page 36, to know what an epidemiologist is. I searched up what is an epidemiologist and on Wikipedia it said “Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations.” In the book, I found facts that confirmed, challenged, and changed my thinking. For example, I used to know that dams created power but I didn’t know how. On page 11 my thinking was confirmed because it says “To generate electricity, water is sent rushing over turbines inside a powerhouse at a dam. This makes the turbines spin, generating electricity.” On page 6, a pie chart shows that groundwater is fresh. This challenged my thinking because I used to think that groundwater was dirty. Finally, something that changed my thinking was that a sea in Uzbekistan is

It was very dry. The jokes were kind of bad. And it was hard to get into it. This book was not hard to read. The vocabulary was simple. And most things that are a water term and are unfamiliar to you are usually explained. But the author does expect you to know some stuff that is obscure but not very necessary to know. This book taught me a lot about water and what people can do to conserve water.it also taught me a lot of new vocabulary, about water, too. I think this book should be included in the unit next year. Even though the book isn’t very good, there are a lot of good facts and it was very easy to do the assignments in class with this book. Also, the book is very short so you don’t have to look deep into the book to find facts. In the end, I don’t think Clean Water was a good book but it is an easy quick