You probably haven’t taken the time to think of all the work that went into creating the shirt on your back. I mean, how hard it could be to create fabric and【C1】______it into a shirt shape. Don’t machines do all that? Well, creating fabric from cotton, which is the most【C2】___clothing material, is actually a process that involves a lot of water, 2,700 liters per shirt to be【C3】___. Take a look at the video below from National Geographic for some more mind-blowing【C4】______about cotton clothing production.

Clean water is【C5】______becoming one of the most sought-after resources in the world. Given how large the【C6】___and cotton industries are, they take up a lot of our fresh water demands across the world, according to The Huffington Post. The video from National Geographic was created to spread【C7】___of how environmentally harmful cotton is. But the situation can be made better. Through better water management and farming practices, water usage in cotton production can be cut down by【C8】______40 percent.

Called “Better Cotton”, this environmentally conscious product will save millions of liters of water a year simply from【C9】______the demands of cotton production. Cotton doesn’t have to go, since it is, after all, one of the most useful cash crops across the globe. However, as water supplies【C10】______, farmers and consumers need to be more conscious of the effect that these products have on the environment as a whole.

A) abstracts I) nearly

B) abundant J) reckoning

C) awareness K) reducing

D) conscience L) sew

E) exact M) shrink

F) increasingly N) statistics

G) intense O) textile

H) mend

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