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San Jose State University Innovative Construction Products, Techniques or New Technologies to Achieve Credits towards LEED Certification of a Building Hanna Saed CE 237 Sustainable Construction Professor Charles Weston 4 November 2014 November 4, 2014 Professor Charles Weston San Jose State University, Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering San Jose, CA 95192 Dear Professor, With great pleasure I submit this semester paper that we have been assigned as an essential requirement

An Issue for California’s Water Supply Now and in the Future: Educating Urban Consumer’s to Reduce Consumptive Usage Michael McCullough California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo Introduction 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

increasing the water needs on these areas. Moreover, agriculture is another main reason why water is running scarce due to the fact that over 70% of fresh water is used for it and more than 60% of that water is lost due to the improper methods of irrigation which causes water to leak. Under ground water sources are also being over used to suffice agriculture; which has depleted the water resources for some countries. “Thirsty crops” like cotton, sugar cane and rice have led to higher water consumption

1. Introduction Since1970, Muirshiel Country Park has been part of Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park which is situated in the River Calder Valley north of Lochwinnoch. The park is an area of general natural beauty with beautiful landscapes and great scenic views but people are allowed to live and work within the area. It may look remote but it has a purpose for human activity, as in the past the land has been used as a farm situated close to the current entrance, for field sports such as grouse shooting

Chapter 9 on biodiversity and the ecosystem was interesting, especially the section on forests. Living in a forest area and being surrounded by them my entire life it was really interesting to learn so much more about forests. Even when humans think they are being responsible, they can still cause great harm. The building of roads to farm trees for instance, can cause damage to a forest because it increases erosion, water runoff, and it can harm the diversity of an ecosystem (Miller & Spoolman, 2010)

Report on University of Florida Water Consumption and Methods of Reduction Yanfang Ao. James K. Clover. Andres E. Cubeddu. Gregory Iyar   Table of Contents Abstract Page 1 1 Introduction Page 2 2 Methods Pages 2-3 2.1 Men’s and Women’s Bathroom Observation Page 2 2.2 Landscape Areas Observation Page 2 2.3 Student Survey Page 3 3 Results Page 3-5 3.1 Men’s and Women’s Bathroom Observation Result Page 3-4 3.2 Observation

of the United Nations (FAO) has published the water quality guidelines for agriculture. The agriculture sector consumes about 94 percent of total annual water in Iran as the biggest stakeholder (Alizadeh and Keshavarz, 2005). Given the effects of irrigation water on soil and crops, monitoring and assessment of groundwater quality are very important. Therefore, groundwater quality assessment is one of the most important environmental issues across the world for decision makers.

Overfilling with mountainous regions and breathtaking scenery, Nepal has yet to recover from countless years of environmental issues. Like a snowball rolling down a hill, problems in Nepal only grow more significant as the years go by. Taking notice of the extreme environmental problems in the country, world-wide organizations researched the regions of Nepal, only to find that water pollution was an emerging, life-threatening issue. Immediately, many international organizations partnered with the

natural rainfall patterns (Evenson and Gollin, 2003). Food-crop productivity was modestly stable until the introduction of the Green Revolution (GR) where extensive agricultural research has led to the development of heavy machineries, advanced irrigation systems and biologically engineered seeds that can operate in conjunction with synthetic fertilizers and chemical pesticides (Pingali, 2012). During the GR period, the world population more than doubled at a growth rate of over 2% annually and

RAINWATER HARVESTING Other Information In the present scenario management and distribution of water has become centralized. People depend on government system, which has resulted in disruption of community participation in water management and collapse of traditional water harvesting system. As the water crisis continues to become severe, there is a dire need of reform in water management system and revival of traditional