Give
me peace; give me the right to live. My dear opponents, co-promoters of
tranquil environment, judges, guests, ladies and gentlemen I am craving for my
right to live.
I
am at peace as if I were in a deep sleep but I was aroused by the clamor of
perilous world. This perplexed reality challenges me to scrutinize its
existence. Barely out of my innocent world, the mystery of life mesmerizes me. But
young as I am, I am ready to appeal to you to preserve your world, our world
from environmental destruction.
These
concerns grant me to hear a spasmodic perpetual voice of flowing water that
scream for help and show me the reproach destiny of our degrading environment.
Yet, I have no regret of being here, alive.
I
would like to tell you this, to all of you here – water is life. I cannot
conquer life without water. For it beats my thirst when I am parched, freshen
me up with its droplets during rainy days, gives strength to swollen with
pride, hope to fight for and life to live with. For without water I am nothing
for it depletes my existence.
Subsequently,
water is one of the most precious gifts that God gave us. As to surmise its
presence, considered to be our means to survive. A vintage characteristic that
only water possessed as the world needs it for life. Most of us don’t really
notice how significant it is. Our beautiful rainforests which host of the
ferocious and to the tiniest animals need water in order to survive. Our sky,
which holds many birds and the beautiful rainbow, the brown fertile soil, which
we use to grow delicious food and unusual plants, water, has an enormous part
for them to exist in this world. Likewise, water holds whole marine life which
serves as one of the sources of the food we eat. Therefore, water is
distinctively significant.
I
would like to ask you all. Do we value it? I think we’re not.
We are now in
the New Age, Modern or Postmodern World as they said. Do you think it could
help to our problem? Or it is one way of throwing away our desired future by
degrading our environment. As of today, I do not know when and where I can
drink safe water. There is now misconception whether – water is life or water
is a threat.
One of the
serious ecological problems that we Filipinos are facing is water supply. The
Philippines has a total of 384 major river systems, 59 lakes and more than
10,000 hectares of fresh water swamps for domestics, industrial, agricultural
and power generation purposes. But because of increasing contamination of river
system due to destruction of watersheds and consequent soil erosion as well as
the dumping of mine tailings, water flow has been greatly reduced such that
fresh water shortage, especially potable water will become major concern in the
very near future. In major urban areas, this problem has come.
As urbanization
proliferates, water solution problems have expanded. These problems are
particularly deep-rooted in increasing of more concentrated amounts of solid
waste and sewage containing our water resources. That is why; our access to
clean water is becoming an acute problem. Untreated wastewater spreads disease.
Bacteria and viruses make water not suitable for drinking and recreational use,
constitute an admonition of jeopardy against biodiversity, diminishes economic
stability and household productivity and deteriorates overall essential
characteristics of human life. In addition to that, be tantamount to higher
incidence of infectious and parasitic diseases. This is a cause for alarm
because of its rapid existence so as the causes and consequences of water
pollution will warrant even greater attention.
Given this
scenario, the country realizes that the quality of life of the future Filipinos
may be compromised by how past and present generations consume and use limited
critical life-containing resources. It is believed that the only rational way
for us to preserve our water resources for the life of today and for the future
generation is by taking action through upholding development without
excruciating the right of water to breathe. To do that, let us start with
ourselves. In deftness way, we can find out some ways to obliterate water
pollution albeit not just in a click but little by little.
Our future
relies on our hands as we are the painter of our dreams and an architect or our
desired future. We all know that polluting our water resources could affect our
life, still we continue doing it. We are the victims of or own crime. We are
the serial killer of our own life. Let us save water now. We will not wait for
tomorrow. We will perform our sense of duty as rational being. Water gives us
life, now it is our time to act in response to give water the fullest life
again.
Despite the fact
that I am still young, my simple way of preserving water could greatly help in
changing the world for her greatness. From now on, I do commit myself to take
good care, save and conserve water. I would like to perform my duty as the hope
my country. I will start it today since I know we deserve to be in peace and
it’s our right to live in peace. We shouldn’t be blinded. Let’s open our eyes
to reality that our country needs healthy Filipinos who will build and lead the
Philippines, Filipinos that soar high with clean water in peaceful living. It
would not be impossible if we work hand in hand in preserving water as we save
life.
I challenge you
now to do your part by taking action in preserving your life by preserving
water. It’s your own prerogative whether you will be one of me or not. You have
still enough time to do it, now. Can you?
Delivered by: Precious
Hope Morante
Edited by: Celia Suganob
(My first oratorical
piece…)
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