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:	9781459807129
Publisher:	Orca Book Publishers
Publication date:	04/01/2015
Series:	Orca Footprints Series , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
Lexile:	1050L (what's this?)
File size:	12 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 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

Chapter One: A Drop to Drink

• Slurp It Up, Buttercup
• Hey, Water! Come This Way!
• Well, Well, Well
• The Forgotten Flush
• Scrub-a-dub
• Three Cheers for Gravity!
• Look Out Below
• Full Steam Ahead!
• The Great Stink
• Gushing Away

Chapter Two: Riding the Water Cycle

• Water, Water, Everywhere
• Dinosaur Drinks
• Swamping the Swamps
• Check Out These Pipes!
• The Water Drain

Chapter Three: Pump it Up

• Drop by Drop
• Making Change
• Getting the Nasties Out
• Nailing the Problem
• Drinking the Ocean
• Sipping Sewage
• All Bottled Up
• Spot On

Chapter Four: Deepening the Well

• Flushed with Pride
• Ready, Set…Rain!
• Gulping Weather
• Thirsty? Plant a Tree
• Fog in Your Cup
• Drops by the Bucketful
• The Ripple Effect

Resources
Acknowledgments
Index

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

"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'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."

Booklist

"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

"[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

"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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