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Preserving the Flow: A Water Conservation Crusade

Definitions

Story: A story is a description of imaginary people and events, which is written or told in order to entertain.

Tales: A tale is a comparatively simple narrative, either fictitious or true, written or recounted orally in prose or in verse. A tale often recounts a strange event, focusing on something or someone exotic, marvelous, or even supernatural.

Science Fiction: Usually futuristic, science fiction speculates about alternative ways of life made possible by technological change, and hence has sometimes been called "speculative fiction."

Story

My name is Mark, it is the year 2130 and water scarcity in the world has reached unimaginable levels. I remember when I was young and pork was worth 10 times more than a bottle of water. However, due to limited access to water a bottle now costs about $90. Consequently, the world's governments found out that extinction was inevitable and the time to stop pollution by changing our habits was over, we had to resort to desperate measures. As a result, they decided to pool effort, resources and technology to create a time machine and rewrite history by traveling to 2050 to alert the world of the coming catastrophe. In fact, for more than 25 years I was working alongside scientists from around the world under the personal supervision of President Prescott himself. He took command of the nations of the world and came up with the idea that a time machine was the best option. Moreover, as a politician he is like a mentor to me.

Finally, the day came, I took the nearest rocket train and went to the laboratory where the time machine was.

- Today you will be the one who saves our world Mark, don't forget you must visit Belgium and later attend the United Nations Meeting, you will explore a world before you were born so things will be a little different - Said President Prescott

- It is a great honor, I will warn everyone and I will never allow humanity to suffer from the thirst we experience today. -Mark responded.

- I know you will, that's why I will send a backup team and my personal robot Calvin, he will help you project all the chaos we are experiencing to the nations of the world so that they can see it with their own eyes.

-I thank you for your president's help, I will not disappoint you.

At this time I felt very nervous but I knew what I had to do. I asked Calvin to project his images of our present and what I saw was absolutely heartbreaking, enough to convince the UN. Thanks to some perfect calculations we were able to appear in an empty office a few meters from the assembly. Later, when I was about to go in to tell them everything, Calvin stops me and says:

- I'll take care of it, since you're a human they may think you're crazy, but if they see a robot they'll know that we're telling the truth.

It was a valid argument so I let him come in, the other 3 stayed with me while we watched the rest of the meeting on a very old television. Then, we saw how Calvin approached the podium after another president's speech had finished. He was excited because after 25 years we managed to achieve our goal. Calvin presented himself to the world as a time-traveling robot who was going to give an important message. However, something very strange happened, Calvin began to show a video and photos of a perfect future, with a happy society, trips to different parts of the cosmos, a world without problems or crises, a future undoubtedly different from the real one.

- The course you have taken is the correct one, global warming never happened, and the world reached lasting peace thanks to the fact that it was governed under a single flag and a single government.

At that moment I understood that it was a trap and there was something more behind this trip, but when I wanted to quickly leave that room, the other 3 people who were accompanying me held me down and prevented me from leaving.

- You are so intelligent but at the same time so naive, Prescott only used you so that with the machine we could find his younger version and make sure that only he would be the owner of the drinking water companies in the world and one day become the oldest man. powerful in the world. And now with Calvin doing his job, we are only ensuring the success of our president.

I felt betrayed, whoever I considered my mentor was only manipulating me. At this point I knew that if I didn't do something they were going to kill me. That's why I started screaming with all my might and kicking things around to make noise. After almost losing consciousness, some guards came in after hearing the scandal. I managed to throw myself to the ground before they shot them down. I couldn't stay there, Calvin was putting the future of humanity at risk so I ran towards the assembly and when I saw him speaking on the podium I didn't hesitate for a second and lunged at him to stop him. The leaders of the world were stunned by what they saw, but I was finally able to show them the truth. Using a computer I was able to show the world the harsh reality that awaits them if they do not change their habits. That the ambitions of a few were going to lead the majority to ruin, that now more than ever was the perfect time to change our habits and take care of a resource more valuable than diamonds: Water.

References

Story Definition and Meaning | Collins English Dictionary. (2023b). En Collins Dictionaries. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/story#:~:text=forms%3A%20plural%20%2Dries-,1.,less%20detailed%20than%20a%20novel

Definition of «Tale». (s. f.). https://www2.hawaii.edu/~davink/MYTHOLOGY%20CLASS/DEFINITIONS/tale.html#:~:text=Tale%20(defined)&text=A%20tale%20is%20a%20comparatively,%2C%20marvelous%2C%20or%20even%20supernatural.

Guides: Science fiction - Greensburg Campus: What is science fiction? (s. f.). https://pitt.libguides.com/scifi#:~:text=Usually%20futuristic%2C%20science%20fiction%20speculates,consistent%20rules%20and%20structures%2C%20set

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I got this image searching on Pinterest: Time travel capsule.

I created this image in an application called Leonard.ai with the prompt: Robot giving a speech at the United Nations.

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Slides

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How did I save water yesterday?

Yesterday was an amazing day for many reasons. First, I waked up at 9am and I saved water by closing the tap while I was brushing my teeth. On the other hand, in the afternoon I was reading a book that I really like because it teaches me a lot of things. After reading, I took a shower in which I saved water by bathing for about 6 minutes. Sometimes people like water and bathe for 20 or 30 minutes and that wastes too much water.