How Water Helps Us

Shows how a family learns the importance of water to themselves and to others. Demonstrates the need for water for washing clothes, washing dishes, washing hands, cooking, drinking, and other purposes when the family's water supply is turned off by a plumber who needs to repair a pipe. Explains the sources of city water supplies and how the water is purified. Pictures such important uses of water as extinguishing fires, providing steam for power, swimming, fishing, floating large boats, and growing crops. Points out that water can cause harm also in the form of floods and erosion.