Sesame Street: Water Conservation

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Turn off the faucet to save water!

Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.
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20 thoughts on “Sesame Street: Water Conservation”

  1. As a kid I actually thought there was a fish living in my water supply. Like in the tanks that held drinking water lol

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  2. I am now 29 years old…. I think about this every time I use water and really is the reason I turn off the water while I brush my teeh. I always try to explain it to people too. So happy to find it!

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  3. I'm trying to find these half-hour long vintage cartoon short films about wasting/saving water that would be shown annually in schools.
    One of them jumped from scene to scene. It began and ended with a boy trying to sleep but couldn't due to a dripping faucet. In the final scene before the credits, the boy is seen walking towards the bathroom with a monkey wrench. There's also a seen where a very fat lady is taking off her makeup and flushing the used tissues down the toilet before subconsciously flushing her wig down the drain as well.
    The other was live action, and starred a family of humans with pig masks on that were cartoony, but were conceptually the same kind of mask as today's horse & unicorn masks. They were called "Water Hogs" because they were always wasting water. The film constantly went back to a seemingly ten or twelve year old boy fishing by a lake, as the lake was constantly going down. The film ended with the boy looking directly at the audience and saying in a serious tone of voice, "Don't be a water hog."
    I've been trying to find these two short films about water conservation for the past couple of years with no luck. Can anybody help me?

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  4. That is just the politest fish I have ever seen. Even when he's going to die in probably under a minute, he still has time for phone formalities and says "please" when asking the kid not to DRAIN THE ENTIRE LAKE to brush his teeth. Real class.

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  5. Yes that's right, water immediately vanishes into the ether the moment it goes down the drain. This is the type of propaganda that tunes people out later in life to public messages.

    Water is a cycled substance, you have a good chance of drinking the same water that Benjamin Franklin drank. Our access to water is limited only by our inability to purify it.

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  6. Appreciate very much the no-waste concept and practice it every day. However, I'm reminded of it when I drive past golf courses when their sprinklers are on — thinking to myself — "Ah yes, better save that water when brushing teeth so that the golfers have nice green grass". Doesn't make sense to me, but yes as they say "waste not, want not".

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