Introduction You do not know how much water you use until you spend a week monitoring it. I spent a week measuring my daily water consumption, then extrapolated that data to estimate my yearly water usage. This paper aims to describe my methods of measuring my water usage, present my data and findings, and lastly compare my usage to the average person in America, China, Germany and Israel. Methods At first, measuring water usage seems like a trivial and easy task. However, I soon learned that it took a great deal of attention and consistency, along with a bit of creativity. Because we use water all day long in a number of different ways, I was constantly writing down what I was doing. I used the “notes” app in my phone to tally up my …show more content…
Judging off the age of the toilet, which looks extremely old, I concluded that it uses about 4 gallons per flush. On the other hand, what is interesting is that when I use a toilet on campus, I found that they only use 1.6 gallons per flush. For my shower I had to get a bit creative. I found a 2-gallon jug in my house and decided I would use that to measure my shower output. This took a great deal of strength and teamwork as the opening of the jug was not so big, so my roommate and I held the jug up close to the shower head. We timed that the jug filled up in about 1 minute and 3 seconds. Using a simple proportion, I found that my shower uses about 1.9 gallons of water per minute. I then timed every shower I took for the week with my phone. The average was about 8.33 minutes long with the longest lasting 9 minutes and the shortest lasting 7 minutes. The next thing for me to do was figure out how much water I drank daily. I used a 16-ounce plastic water bottle on Friday and Saturday, but determined that I was not getting enough water (See Appendix 1). On Sunday I bought a Nalgene bottle and started bringing it everywhere with me. The bottle holds 32 ounces and has measurements going up the side that made measuring my water intake very easy. Another interesting use for my Nalgene bottle was that it helped me visualize how much 32 ounces of water is. I was struggling to quantify how much water I used while brushing my teeth and shaving,
Since, I have been working on my fitness and health goals over the last year, I of course have needed to start drinking more water. Yet, I still have not been able to get myself to drink the daily-recommended amount of water. Therefore, there are a number of reasons that support my reasoning for wanting to increase my daily water intake. For instance, I want to incorporate drinking more water, because I know that it plays such an essential role in a persons overall health. Changing this behavior will ultimately benefit me in now and in the future. Also, not drinking enough water fatigues the body and muscles, especially for those that are actively exercising. Since, I have been incorporating more exercise into my daily routine, it is important that I also incorporate at least the recommended daily water intake if not more. Another significant factor is that water is essential to organ health and function. Therefore, in order for my organs to function properly I must be consuming the proper amount of water. That is why, I would like to make this behavior change in my life now, so that I could live a long and healthy life. As I reflect back on the experiences I encountered while trying to change my water consumption, I have to admit that overall I had a positive experience. I learned a lot about myself, and my own personal
Central Idea: Drinking the right amount of water each day has crucial health benefits. In this informative speech, my goal is to make the audience aware of the health risk associated with not drinking an efficient amount of water. Also, I will provide several tips to help the audience make sure they are drinking enough water daily.
It is also important to know that the body is constantly losing water through perspiration, respiration and urination. Therefore, it is imperative that the body's supply is replenished. Besides basic needs, the more calories that the body burns the more water the body needs. Research suggests that a person needs one tablespoon of water for every calorie burned. Since the average person burns about 2,000 kilocalories a day, eight glasses of water should be consumed daily to maintain a healthy balance.
In the modern age of high-speed internet, self-driving cars and VR it’s easy to forget that some places in the world still don’t have fresh water, let alone plumbing. The average person uses between 80 and 100 gallons of water a day. If you drink the recommended 8 glasses per day that’s only 8 oz a glass, or 64 oz in total. Of those 80 to 100 gallons we use an average of 3 every time we flush the toilet, 5 gallons per minute in the shower, 36 gallons for a bath, 8-27 gallons while doing the dishes, 25 gallons for every load of laundry and another 2 gallons a minute if you’re doing any outdoor watering or filling a kiddy pool. By using a newer toilet, you can reduce the gallons per flush to about 1.6 gallons, and when using a water saving shower head you can reduce your use to about 2 gallons per minute. This may not seem like much of a difference, but it can make a big impact.
3 Litres of water a day for the average human male for female 2.2 litres.
Water is essential to sustain life. It is becoming an ever more valuable resource every year as it becomes scarcer. The general problem is that California is in the midst of a severe drought. The specific problem is that the typical urban consumer has little knowledge of how to reduce their every day consumption of water. Urban usage accounts for approximately 5.7 million acre-feet per year, which equates to approximately 10% of California’s annual water supply in a year with normal precipitation (Burt, 2014). In this previous water year (October 1, 2013 - September 30, 2014) California experienced its driest year in 119 years (Ca.Gov/Water Conditions). Serious action needs to be taken immediately to reduce consumptive usage, especially in the case of urban consumption of water. Shakespeare famously said “I to the world am like a drop of water that in the ocean seeks another drop”. While each individual may believe their actions to be insignificant, in the bigger picture, California needs every drop it can get.
Water usage for agriculture in Ontario is exceeded by two other sectors but, does play a large part and quite important as it generates a lot of economic revenue for the citizens. In Ontario, the Canadian Government requires all farmers who will be withdrawing more than 50,000 L of water to obtain the “Permit to Take Water”. This allows for the government to monitor how much water is being allotted to the agricultural sector. There are several issues faced by the government when trying to track water usage rates in Ontario. Agricultural water use in Ontario is distributed amongst 60,000 farms (figure 1) mostly in Southern, Ontario (Loë, 2005). The allocation of water in Ontario depends on accurate information from the sources of water, users
But humans are not the only species that need water. Animals and plants need water as well and without it there would be nothing to live off and everything and everyone will just fade away. In California, water is used mostly every day and it has to start when someone starts there day. According to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stated that “the average American family uses more than 300 gallons of water per day”. This means that an average household would contain at least three people, that max would be four. If one average family uses up to 300 gallons a day. Then who can imagine how many other average families use 300 or more gallons of water per day. But this only includes the amount of water that is used inside the house and does not include the amount of water used outdoors. Outdoors water usage is only 30 % of the household use while the other 70 % is indoors. Outdoor water usage may include watering lawns, flowers, washing cars, kidding pools or slid n slides for when the weather is
Water shortage is a growing problem for most countries in the world. For China, which has 20% of world’s population and only 7% of available water resources, this problem may become catastrophic (Hofstedt 2010, 72). Therefore some actions and measures should be performed to avoid or at least to weaken future water crisis in China. In this work the following three solutions will be proposed and analyzed in terms of efficiency and applicability: water usage efficiency improvement; adopting the local agencies on controlling water resources; reasonable water pricing.
Water is not a free good. In fact, it’s expensive. These conditions lead to awareness of water management challenges.
As you can see, water plays a major role in many factors of your body.
Showers are more efficient than baths. The average bath uses 80 gallons of water, while a shower uses only 10. Showering instead of bathing can reduce water usage by 85% for many homeowners. In addition, showering provides a cleaner and more sanitary experience than bathing.
Water is a very important commodity to live. Some people say it’s a right, but others at as if it’s a privilege, and as a result, people lack it. The human body is about sixty percent water, but in what I have seen just in my twenty years of life, people do not drink merely enough of it. Instead, water has been replaced as a go-to drink by things like milk, coffee, pop, or energy drinks, but natural energy lies in water. With water we can be more energized, awake, and of course, hydrated, which all together collaborate to help us flourish, stay healthy, and live long. It’s most of the earth’s surface, too; water’s all around us, but we neglect it and deny its crucial place in our health and humanity.
Lately, the trend is that nearly everyone carries a water bottle with them and sips all day long. But what does water really do for the body? Is it essential that people gulp down the prescribed “eight glasses of water a day” for optimal health and performance? A growing body of information now points to evidence that water is beneficial to your health.
According to water footprint studies, three classes of water use exists, namely, blue water which refers to the volume of surface and groundwater consumed in the manufacture of a product, green water which refers to the volume of consumption of rainwater excluding any runoffs and grey water is polluted water and by definition is the amount of freshwater needed to assimilate the load of pollutants given natural background concentrations and existing ambient water quality standards (Hoekstra et al 2011). The understanding of water footprint will eventually lead behavioral changes which will in turn ensure sustainable water use.