The Big Thirst is a non-fiction book written by Charles Fishman, this book talks about status reports from scientists, water crises all over the world, and economic issues in countries. It spoke in the third person point of view since it’s a status report, and the author didn’t include his opinion in the book. Instead, he used many sources to address the message of what he wanted to say to the audience.

The main idea I’ve found is water shall not be wasted, but used. Many places throughout Earth, including well-developed countries such as Australia or the United States, have water shortages. Nearly 1/3 of the world’s population doesn’t have access to water or clean water that’s consumable. People in the U.S. spend at least 5 gallons of water to just flush their toilets each day, and the whole population of the United States is just 331 million people, so more than 1.6 billion gallons of water are wasted every day to just flush our toilets. Meanwhile, people from other countries barely have

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Looking down, I’ve found some interesting evidence that supports our main idea. UN reports that nearly 3,100 children die every day because of consuming unclean water, they’ve been using water that has not been cleaned or wasted water that has already been used. UN claimed that it’s because of their country’s economy, global status, and several government issues that have been causing uncleaned water.

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