Use Water Bottles to Water Plants

Many people use water bottles. At the end of the day there might be some water left in your water bottle. You might just pour the leftover water into the sink. Instead of pouring the water out you should water plants with it. This helps with not wasting water. So at the end of the day if you have water in your water bottle, use the water to water your plants.

Adopt an Oyster

We all know everyone's dream pet is an oyster reef, or a group of oysters. Who wouldn't want one? If you got an oyster it would clean lots of water. In fact one of the reasons that the Hudson River is dirty is because most of the oysters were killed. You shouldn't adopt an oyster for a pet (because everyone knows cats are the best) however you should promote oyster reproduction by not eating them too much.

Watering Your Garden

If you made that garden I talked about in "Make a Garden" great job. Now you have to take care of your garden. You'll have to water your garden. Some people tend to over water their garden. Make sure you don't do this. If you give your garden too much water it won't absorb all the water. The water your garden doesn't soak up will find it's way to our waterways. As the water goes to our waterways it picks up dust particles. When the water finally reaches one of the waterways it will pollute the waterway with the dirt it picked up. If you have a garden make sure you don't give it to much water. If you don't have a garden get one.

Water that gets poured in the garden runs down the hill.

Don't Litter!

Everyday you have to throw out at least one piece of trash. Some people throw the trash in to the trash can, others will litter. This litter will pile up filling our waterways with plastic bottles and potato chip bags. If you litter yourself or know anyone who litters stop yourself or them from littering.

Make a Garden

Making a garden would clean the waterways a lot. I know making a garden is a lot of work but it really helps. The plants you grow in the garden consume rain. Less rain in the sewers means that CSO would get less bad. Despite the fact that making a garden would be a lot of work you should still start one to help stop CSO. Who knows, maybe making a garden might be fun.

Pass it on!

Not enough people know how terrible water pollution is. At school we did a community survey (the survey on the blog is based off of it). We asked strangers about water pollution and everyone got lots of questions wrong. I’m informing you about the dangers of water pollution. If you inform people like I am about water pollution many people would know. We could work together to stop the water pollution we caused. If you want to help, pass the message on about water pollution.

Little changes can make a big difference: turn off the tap!

A major contributor to water pollution is people leaving water running. When you’re brushing your teeth you might leave the water running. It’s not that big of a deal if you do it once but it’s not just you. People all over the world leave the water running doing numerous things. Think about this the next time you use water and make sure you turn the tap off when you are done.