Scribd
Upload
27 views3 pages

Elective-1: Water and Sanitation

The document discusses clean water resources and ways to save water. It notes that only a small percentage of Earth's water is freshwater, with most locked up in ice or underground. Of the little surface freshwater, most is in ice or lakes, with rivers providing a small amount but being important for human use. It then provides many suggestions for conserving water in the home and yard, such as fixing leaks, taking shorter showers, only running full loads of dishes and laundry. It also calculates that a faucet dripping once per second can waste over 2,000 gallons of water per year.

Uploaded by

sania rahim
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
27 views3 pages

Elective-1: Water and Sanitation

The document discusses clean water resources and ways to save water. It notes that only a small percentage of Earth's water is freshwater, with most locked up in ice or underground. Of the little surface freshwater, most is in ice or lakes, with rivers providing a small amount but being important for human use. It then provides many suggestions for conserving water in the home and yard, such as fixing leaks, taking shorter showers, only running full loads of dishes and laundry. It also calculates that a faucet dripping once per second can waste over 2,000 gallons of water per year.

Uploaded by

sania rahim
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

ELECTIVE-1

WATER AND SANITATION

SUBMITTED TO: SIR ADNAN BASHIR


SUBMITTED BY: RIFZA AWAN
2016-ARCH-16
CALCULATION OF CLEAN WATER RESOURCES
 Only 2.5% of Earth's water is freshwater - the amount needed for life to survive.
 Almost all of it is locked up in ice and in the ground. Only a little more than 1.2% of all freshwater is
surface water, which serves most of life's needs.
 Breakdown of surface freshwater. Most of this water is locked up in ice, and another 20.9% is found
in lakes. Rivers make up 0.49% of surface freshwater. Although rivers account for only a small
amount of freshwater, this is where humans get a large portion of their water from.

FRESH GROUNDWATER
Water volume, in cubic miles = 2,526,000
Water volume, in cubic kilometers = 10,530,000
Total fresh water = 30.1%

SUGGESTIONS FOR SAVE WATER


 Check your toilet for leaks
 Stop using your toilet as an ashtray or wastebasket
 Put a plastic bottle in your toilet tank
 Take shorter showers
 Install water-saving shower heads or flow restrictors
 Take baths
 Turn off the water while brushing your teeth
 Turn off the water while shaving
 Check faucets and pipes for leaks
 Use your automatic dishwasher for full loads only
 Use your automatic washing machine only for full loads only
 Don't let the faucet run while you clean vegetables
 Keep a bottle of drinking water in the refrigerator
 If you wash dishes by hand, don't leave the water running for rinsing
 Check faucets and pipes for leaks
 Water your lawn only when it needs it
 Deep-soak your lawn
 Water during the cool parts of the day
 Don't water the gutter
 Plant drought-resistant trees and plants
 Put a layer of mulch around trees and plants.
 Use a broom to clean driveways, sidewalks and steps
 Don't run the hose while washing your car
 Tell your children not to play with the hose and sprinklers
 Check for leaks in pipes, hoses faucets and couplings

WATER WASTAGE FROM A DRIPPING TAP


A dripping tap can waste as much water as one tap drips every second

 One gallon = 15,140 drips


 One liter = 4,000 drips
Let's say you have one faucet in your home that drips once every second.

 60 drips per minute


 3,600 drips per hour
 86,400 drips per day
 31,536,000 drips per year.
One gallon contains roughly 3,785 ml, so that's 15,140 drips per gallon, which means our 1-second-
dripping faucet wastes over 5 gallons of water per day and just under 2,083 gallons per year.

You might also like