Have you ever thought of how we can all conserve water? Do you ask yourself sometimes will we ever run out of water? When you ask people the same questions a majority will give you the response “ I don’t know…” In Lana Mazahreh’s speech “3 thoughtful ways to conserve water,” she talks about three lessons we can take into our hands to conserve water. The three lessons she focuses on are to tell people how much water we really have, empower people to save water and to look below the surface. Lana uses these three key points to trigger the audience mind, hoping it will change the way we treat and value our water. Today in our society we take water for granted when we should not. We as citizens do not know how much water we have left, or when we are going to run out. The …show more content…
The second message she gives to us is to “empower people to save water.” In the society, we are living in we do not realize how much water we put to waste when we take long showers or when we leave the faucet running for no purpose. We can all agree that at some point in life we have all been victims of taking long showers or leaving the faucet running like when we brush our teeth. The first thing that goes through a majority of our heads is that water is constantly being recycled. But just because it is being recycled we do not get all of it back, nor does it get put back where it came from. Melbourne wanted people to use less water in their homes. One of the easiest and fastest solutions they were able to come up with was to offer a water-efficient showerhead for free. The speaker appeals the audience by telling them the truth of how we judge everything by its looks and not the benefits. The shower head team was able to develop something better, which was a small water regulator that goes on your shower head. Melbourne was able to reduce their water demand by 50 percent. Empowering individuals and communities to preserve water is