The true story about WaterAvengers
January 2nd 2050
Water pollution is the leading worldwide cause of deaths and diseases. Daily, 100 000 deaths are related to this problem. More than 75% of lakes, rivers and bays of the planet are contaminated. There is almost no drinkable water left.
The Earth and its inhabitants are endangered. WastingMan is wasting and polluting all the drinkable water on the planet. Someone needs to stop him and restore the precious water reserves.
WastingMan is a man that came from Neptune. His muscles are made of some kind of sponge and it constantly needs water. He arrived on Earth around 2010 and since then he has been drinking thousands of litre of water every day to stay hydrated and survive. Around 2030, the drinkable water was becoming very rare. Being able to drink polluted water, WastingMan started to pollute water to keep it for himself. That creepy man has been travelling the world alone searching for water for more than 20 years now.
Fortunately, the Water Avengers decided to unite and fight against the WastingMan and de-pollute our invaluable resource.
The Water Avengers are composed of Torrentia, Goccia and Vigor. The three of them are highly touched by human misery. They met five years ago in Metrotopia in a mutant symposium where they united around this common goal: the protection of water. They realised that WastingMan was the main threat to our water resources. They have been preparing their attack against him for a couple years now.
When Torrentia was 12, her house and family was carried away by a tornado. During this tornado, she was hit by a lightening and ended up being able to control weather. Once an adult, she decided to travel and see the world. She saw all the poverty and misery in countries where water is lacking. She has been extremely moved by those experiences and now, wants to help the cause of water conservation. For several years, she has been pouring rain on people who needed it.
Goccia is an ex-teacher and researcher Ecology at Oxford University. Nine years ago, doing an experiment, she entered in contact with a very special and rare liquid from Mercury, called RUBILONDULUM and her skin was affected. Her skin is now transparent and her skin can de-pollute substances like water very rapidly. After this incident, she couldn’t go back to her job because of her new disturbing appearance, so when she understood her new de-polluting power, she decided to help others like Torrentia.
Vigor has always been a mutant. As a child, he could throw a baseball four times stronger than the other kids at his school. At this time, he didn’t know why. His parents only told him about his powers when he was 15 because he was having a lot of trouble controlling his extraordinary force. Over the years, he learned to control his force and entered police school. Since then, he has been a policeman bringing back order and justice. Vigor was convinced by Torrentia and Goccia at the Metrotopia’s Symposium of the injustice of the water distribution on the planet and decided to join their team.
After two years of research, they found WastingMan’s weakness. They chased him around the globe. Goccia used her researcher skills to investigate WastingMan’s location. Once they will found him, they used their superpowers to destroy him. WastingMan was caught in the tornado provoked by Torrentia. Vigor used his extraordinary force to twist his sponge body and withdraw all the water which allows him to live. Finally, Vigor sent him back to Neptune.
Having to deal with the misery WastingMan left behind him, they decided to create a device that would clean the polluted water. The device would be easily moved from places to places and clean the contaminated lakes, rivers and etc. using the special chemicals that transformed Goccia in a mutant, the RUBILONDULUM. The device was called «Aguagliosa».
The population of the Earth haven’t seen any clean water in the 30 years of WastingMan’s reign, the Water Avengers had to remind them what clean water look like. To show everyone that it was now possible to have access to clean water, the super-heroes built a swimming pool with the new de-polluted water, «Agualizia». The population was so impressed by the marvellous clean water that it became the one of the wonders of the world. Over the next years, hundreds of millions of people came to see this monument. To remind humans of their responsibility to be careful not to waste one drop of this marvellous gift, they introduced a message in «Aguagliosa» that everyone could see looking at water. The message was very simple and was told all over the world : Water is life. Every drop is important.
2099
The Earth is no longer in danger of a lack of drinkable water. The population is aware of the importance of water and is careful about not wasting a drop. There has been a huge change in mentality but there is still some work to do. A quarter of the water still needs to be cleaned. Aguagliosa has been ameliorated and is working twice as fast as it was in 2050. The Water Avengers continued to travel around the world with their cleaning device, telling the population about the importance of water protection.
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