b'Q&A with Sharon MankerSharon Manker, a Healthy Why is it important for our water toNewsWorks board member, be clean?is national supplier diversity If your water isnt clean, you cant be healthy. coordinator for American Water, Youre supposed to consume water every day.a water and wastewater utility All parts of your body need water. Most of your company based in Camden, N.J.body is made up of water. The cleaner the water, Here is an edited version of herthe healthier you are.conversation with the staff of the Lab Charter Healthy Cheetah.What can kids do to conserve water?Where does the water in our faucets There are many ways you can help your come from? household use less water. For example: When brushing your teeth, dont let the water In Philadelphia and Norristown, the water comes from the Schuylkill or Delaware Rivers, dependingrun the whole time. Wet your brush and turn on where you live. Its pumped from deep wells,off the faucet.filtered and treated to make sure its safe to drink, Take shorter showers. Make it a game. Keep and then goes through pipes in the ground toan egg timer in the bathroom and see who reach the faucets in your home. can get their showers down to three minutes. (And still get clean!) Be sure to tell someone if a faucet is drip-How does the water come out of our ping, so it can be fixed.tap clean?Water companies pump the river water intoWill we ever run out of clean water?treatment plants and use technology to take out chemicals, pollutants, and other contaminants.While our planet as a whole may never run out of Scientists who are experts in water quality makewater, its important to remember that clean, fresh sure the water that flows to your tap is of highwater is not always available where and when quality. And the companies monitor the qualityhumans need it. Its everyones job to help keep levels every day. the water clean.26'