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Water Power

Water Power — page 1
your mission Water covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface People use water for drinking watering crops transporting goods and more People also use the power of moving water to produce energy Your mission is to investigate water power as an energy source What kind of energy does water power give us How did humans use water power in the past How do we use water to produce energy today How might we use water power in the future Read the facts in What You Know Then start your mission to learn more about the exciting world of water power what you know (cid:204) More than 80 percent of the energy we produce comes from fossil fuels such as oil coal and natural gas (cid:204) Fossil fuels take millions of years to make and they create greenhouse gases when they are burned (cid:204) Energy from moving water is clean and renewable (cid:204) We can use rivers ocean waves and tides as sources of energy 4