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Link:  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/
Author:  Freshwater Crisis-National Geographic

Summary:  This Article is about how the earth has a limited amount of water, and how the competition for this clean water increases each year, as more and more water gets polluted and as more people are born.  It is is about how much of the Earth's Water is actually drinkable, and how much freshwater is actually usable, which is actually only 0.3% if all freshwater, and only 3% of the earth's water is freshwater, meaning that only 0.007% of the Earth's water is actually freshwater, that is easy to access for us.  Its also says how the water is not distributed evenly across the world. Its says that the water use in America has been increasing, and that we should try our best to conserve and distribute the water evenly, and the main idea is that we should conserve water, because we use too much.
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The water you drink today has likely been around in one form or another since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, hundreds of millions of years ago.

While the amount of freshwater on the planet has remained fairly constant over time-continually recycled through the atmosphere and back into our cups-the population has exploded. This means that every year competition for a clean, copious supply of water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and sustaining life intensifies.

Water scarcity is an abstract concept to many and a stark reality for others. It is the result of myriad environmental, political, economic, and social forces.

Freshwater makes up a very small fraction of all water on the planet. While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. The rest is saline and ocean-based. Even then, just 1 percent of our freshwater is easily accessible, with much of it trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In essence, only 0.007 percent of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 6.8 billion people.

Due to geography, climate, engineering, regulation, and competition for resources, some regions seem relatively flush with freshwater, while others face drought and debilitating pollution. In much of the developing world, clean water is either hard to come by or a commodity that requires laborious work or significant currency to obtain.

Water Is Life

Wherever they are, people need water to survive. Not only is the human body 60 percent water, the resource is also essential for producing food, clothing, and computers, moving our waste stream, and keeping us and the environment healthy.

Unfortunately, humans have proved to be inefficient water users. (The average hamburger takes 2,400 liters, or 630 gallons, of water to produce, and many water-intensive crops, such as cotton, are grown in arid regions.)

According to the United Nations, water use has grown at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. By 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change. The challenge we now face as we head into the future is how to effectively conserve, manage, and distribute the water we have.

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Competing for Clean Water Has Led to a Crisis

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The water you drink today has likely been around in one form or another since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, hundreds of millions of years ago. While the amount of freshwater on the planet has remained fairly constant over time-continually recycled through the atmosphere and back into our cups-the population has exploded.

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South African city running low on water, may impose strict limits by Agence France-Presse.

Summary: This article is about why it is so important to save water and how you save it. The people of Cape Town have been in a huge drought causing the wells to dry up. That means that there will not be much usable water left. When they used too much water and didn't stop using it, they shut offed the water calling this "day zero." People were only allowed to use 6.5 gallons per person each day. It was difficult to chose whether to do this or that. But this system hasn't worked that well. Only half of the people are following this rule. Soon all the water is going to run out if there is no rain soon. A central idea in this article is that they needed a way to conserve more water. One main idea is that from they learned how to conserve their water well. Another main idea is if you don't conserve water well then you won't be able then you won't be able to survive normally. The final main idea is that even though they were in that situation they were able to ration their water well.

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Newsela | South African city on shut-off notice as water crisis worsens

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Reservoirs around drought-stricken Cape Town are almost dry, forcing major water use limits

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Summary:  Water pollution is a big problem for everyone. People contaminate the water in many ways and this article talks about that. Littering, oil spills, waste etc. The website also talks about water pollution sources. For example Industrial waste, mining activities, marine dumping, accidental oil spills etc. The central Idea of this article is what is water pollution?  One main idea that is shown in the text is sources of water pollution. Another main idea is the causes of water pollution. In addition to this a main idea that can be found is the affects of water pollution.

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Site:  https://www.seeturtles.org/ocean-plastic/
Author:  Ocean plastic and how it affects sea life- SEE turtles website

Summary:  This article is about how sea life is affected by the garbage that we dump into the ocean and seas.  It also talks about how many different garbage gyres we have created in the oceans, and how that affects sea life.  It is about how many different animals are affected by this garbage, and why we should not dump this trash into the seas, and the main idea is about how we should not dump trash into the oceans.