Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to conserve and protect our oceans and fresh water supply. Central Idea: Our water is a treasured resource that should be protected for our future generations Introduction I. About 70% of the earths surface is covered with water. (show globe) A. Of all this water, only .3% is usable by humans, the remaining 99.7% is either unusable salt water or unavailable fresh water. (show graph #1) B. Much of the useable .3% is out …showed first 75 words of 950 total…

…showed last 75 words of 950 total…help save our water supply for future generations. (pass out handouts) A. Beyond familiarizing you with the many threats to your waterways and potential consequences of those threats, I also wanted to highlight the opportunities that all of us have to clean and protect our water. B. With your help, we can assure that watersheds across the country are clean & healthy and meet the needs of the wildlife and the people that depend on them.