Every Last Drop: Bringing Clean Water Home

by Michelle Mulder

Overview

★ "An excellent resource on the topic." —School Library Journal, starred review

In the developed world, if you want a drink of water you just turn on a tap or open a bottle. But for millions of families worldwide, finding clean water is a daily challenge, and kids are often the ones responsible for carrying water to their homes. Every Last Drop looks at why the world’s water resources are at risk and how communities around the world are finding innovative ways to quench their thirst and water their crops. Maybe you’re not ready to drink fog, as they do in Chile, or use water made from treated sewage, but you can get a low-flush toilet, plant a tree, protect a wetland or just take shorter showers. Every last drop counts!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459835108
Publisher:	Orca Book Publishers
Publication date:	02/08/2022
Series:	Orca Footprints Series , #4
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	263,997
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.19(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Michelle Mulder is the founding author of and has written numerous titles in the Orca Footprints series including Pedal It!, Every Last Drop, Trash Talk and Home Sweet Neighborhood. They have also written several works of fiction including The Vegetable Museum and Not a Chance. Michelle lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Chapter 1 A Drop to Drink

Slurp It Up, Buttercup 8

Hey, Water! Come This Way! 8

Well, Well, Well 11

The Forgotten Flush 12

Scrub-a-dub 12

Three Cheers for Gravity! 13

Look Out Below 15

Full Steam Ahead! 15

The Great Stink 16

Gushing Away 16

Chapter 2 Riding the Water Cycle

Water, Water, Everywhere 18

Dinosaur Drinks 19

Swamping the Swamps 21

Check Out These Pipes! 22

The Water Drain 24

Chapter 3 Pump It Up

Drop by Drop 26

Making Change 28

Getting the Nasties Out 28

Nailing the Problem 29

Drinking the Ocean 30

Sipping Sewage 31

All Bottled Up 32

Spot On 33

Chapter 4 Deepening the Well

Flushed with Pride 34

Ready, Set…Rain! 35

Gulping Weather 36

Thirsty? Plant a Tree 37

Fog in Your Cup 38

Drops by the Bucketful 39

The Ripple Effect 41

Resources 44

Acknowledgments 45

Index 47

Editorial Reviews

"Through accessible language, this text supports environmental and ecological inquiries while also raising awareness about global initiatives."

The Dragon Lode

"This accessible and engaging nonfiction book sheds important research about water around the world. The author combines personal stories with interesting facts to raise awareness in an effort to encourage personal responsibility about water usage...Classroom and school libraries will want to include this important nonfiction book in a text set about sustainability of natural resources."

Reading Today Online

"Packs a lot of punch with its very informed look at drinkable water situations in various countries around the world."

Southwestern Ohio Young Adult Materials Review Group

"Nothing could have prepared me for the wealth of information presented in Every Last Drop...What makes these forty-eight pages of nonfiction so wonderful for readers is the style chosen by Michelle Mulder to present the efforts of her research...Liberal use of photographs, diagrams and sketches become a part of the layout and design of the text making...[it] an outstanding nonfiction title. Every collection will want to have a copy of this pertinent presentation on a timely topic."

Librarian's Quest blog

"This engaging book takes on the important task of explaining clean drinking water to middle school students...The writing style is a very accessible mixture of personal travel stories and interesting facts ..It can be hard to find good books on sustainability issues for middle school students. This well-written book will be a welcome addition to any classroom or library collection. It will support any research on water usage and will be popular with students interested in getting involved with environmental issues.
Highly Recommended."

CM Magazine

"[Mulder] uses personal stories and includes many well-researched facts to make the telling personal and of great interest to those who read her book. The beautiful, clear photographs up the interest...The captions are informative and useful for classrooms."

Sal's Fiction Addiction blog

"Mulder's conversational style is very readable and she tells so many anecdotes of families and communities around the world that this is a fascinating book."

Resource Links

"Young people will be amazed by the global initiatives: filtering arsenic-contaminated water in Bangladesh with iron nails, harvesting fog to gather fresh water in Chile, and more. Catchy 'Go with the Flow' headings, startling water facts, and color photos of children collecting and conserving water around the world make this high-interest reading."

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"Young people will be amazed by the global initiatives: filtering arsenic-contaminated water in Bangladesh with iron nails, harvesting fog to gather fresh water in Chile, and more. Catchy 'Go with the Flow' headings, startling water facts, and color photos of children collecting and conserving water around the world make this high-interest reading."

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