The Benefits of Green Technolgy

Water is one of the necessities of life. Without it, humans can’t survive. It seems like a basic need that is readily available, as 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water. However, many people lack a source of clean drinking water, and this number as well as the number of people who die due to not having clean water is rising. According to the Natural Resource Defense Council, “Less than two tenths of 1 percent of the planet’s water is drinkable, and 90 percent of that goes to uses in buildings, including flushing toilets.” Therefore, only a miniscule fraction of the water of the water on Earth is available for drinking. In addition, the average American uses 2,220 gallons of water per day, a number out of proportion with the 844 million people who lack access to safe drinking water. While these statistics sound dire, there are ways to solve this problem. The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough water, but how we use the water we have. If we utilize water and the other resources we have access to in an effective way, we can supply the human race as well as other species with sufficient water to survive.

In these modern times we are slowly decreasing our water supply, so that in later years there will be a water supply shortage. In the past centuries, mostly in the last few decades, humans have been using an abundance of water and therefore increasing the risk of water of shortages. Now, humans are using even more water and so we have had to discover ways to reduce our water usage. There are different solutions to this problem including just overall using less water, and using water conserving devices (shower heads, wash machines). Another way to conserve water is to install a greywater system. A greywater system allows the water that you have already used to be used again in different ways. The water can be reused in the house or

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.

The world has made great technological leaps at the start of the 21st century. One of them being, the “Toilet to Tap project” where we are starting to purify and reuse sewer water for drinking purposes. However, it is hard for some people to wrap their head around the fact that the water they’re drinking, was water that they once showered in. By 2023, the recycling of sewer water will soon be a regular part of a lot of people's lives, whether they like it or not.

This requires us to work-out new policies, regulations and reasons to reduce water concepts, re-use water and replacing water resources. In fact, we need new policies and regulation that will allow us to do more with less, and cascade water from one use to another. To be successful, we need significant efforts to raise awareness and change attitudes: appreciating the tremendous value water has for our lives, families, communities and nations. Only with this attitude can we create the desire to care for water and not waste

New advancements in technology are coming out every single day, so this prediction should not be too far off. Furthermore, since a broader consciousness of the deteriorating state of the environment and a desire to preserve the planet has sprung up within this generation, I believe that more and more people will begin to seek out cleaner methods of living and traveling, such as driving low carbon vehicles, and emphasize harnessing energy in renewable, non-toxic fashions, like solar panels and windmills, especially if harsher natural disasters and deleterious changes in climate continue to remind us of the vulnerability of the

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Do something great. Donate your time to recycling. We hear it all the time to save our environment through recycling. What we do not hear too often is that there is potential for the costs of recycling to outweigh the perceived benefits. More specifically one way to recycle is through the process of greywater recycling. “Greywater is household waste water from all household plumbing fixtures except toilets and garbage disposals, which is considered black water” (The Natural Home Building Source). This includes water from bathing, bathroom sinks, and laundry that doesn’t include dirty diapers (Curry 2010). The relevance of this topic derives from the fact that everyone within this world needs water, but it turns out the supply of freshwater is effectively reduced by pollution and contamination (Coleridge).

I would have to say that going green should be everyones priority for the future. If we act now we can keep our lanfill to a fraction of what it could be.And in doing so we can produce power recycle metals, plastics, paper and help with the cost of continued

In the Pacific Northwest where I currently reside, we pride ourselves on being pretty environmentally conscious. Land conservation and preservation, recycling, alternative energy sources, and using public transportation are all big priorities for the people who live around here. Nevertheless, one thing that we have never cared about very much is water conservation techniques. Working for a land and water conservation group around here, I know what I am talking about. Water always takes a distant second. You see, there is just so much water around here. We are basically surrounded by mountain ranges and rain forests, so every year there is a huge flood of water down from the tops of the peaks. All around downtown Portland, for example, there

Many people in the United States, and in other parts of the world, take water for granted because all they have to do it turn on a faucet. “More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.” (Adams 2003) What if clean, drinkable water was available to those people? Water is needed to produce crops; it is also needed to hydrate people to keep them alive as well as feed animals. Water treatment systems can be used to take contaminated water, like that which is found all over the world in rivers and lakes, after it is run through a treatment system the water is lacking contaminates and drinkable.

Water conservation is an important part in everyday lives. People have grown careless of how they use water, causing lots of it to go to waste. At least twenty nine billion gallons of water are wasted each day in most American households.Thankfully, there are ways to stop this.

There have been many adverse changes to the global environment, and the life around it is being threatened by Global warming. Green Technology can help prevent global disaster and improve the ways we produce organic material to recycle cleaner material for a better world. Without the use of green cleaner technology, there have been changes to the world such as global warming, and its harder to prevent that if the cost of green technology is high making it harder for people and business to obtain green technology. There are also people that worried that Green technology is not as efficient and are uncertain about performance.

The term Green Revolution was first used in 1968 when people realized that a revolution in agriculture was taking place. In this revolution many technology transfer initiatives were created which led to a drastic increase of production worldwide as well as innovative ideas that created large supplies of food very quickly. Incorporating technological ideas such as mechanization, which led to the massive increase of production of food at the expense of creating larger but fewer farms, is what really gave headway to the mass production of food. With the creation of so much food there needed to be advancements in the way we grew our food such as synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and GMOs. With these technological changes in the way food was farmed and produced many people were able to benefit from the outcomes of the Green Revolution. The food was able to be made and sold so cheaply that the revolution, to some degree, helped alleviate world hunger by providing people with food that diversified their diet. However, with these changes in agriculture came changes in the socio economy. Many small farms went into debt and lost their land while the wealthier farms were able to grow the amount of land they had, thereby giving rise to new ways of farming, like monoculture farming. Overall, the Green Revolution changed the world in both positive and negative ways. By using new and old technologies to create a system where food could be made cheaply and at large quantities, we see many

New technological advances have made it possible to reverse the effects it has made over the course of the years. We are now able to conserve energy by using alternative energy, and our natural resources. Technology has aided in providing alternative energy sources like solar panels that absorb heat which is already being emitted to us in the form of sunlight and they

In Texas, no authorization is required for the domestic use of less than 400 gallons of gray water each day. Recycling water can save energy because its takes a lot of power to send water around. It may also contain high nutrients and is useful for irrigation. Recycled water can help reduce waste water discharge into oceans and thus reduces pollution. The only possible way we can stop drought as well as future and present water shortages is by raising awareness about the benefits of reusing greywater. This is turn