This week we calculated our personal water usage, analyzed that data, and synthesized a procedure for sustainable showering. Reflect on your experience during these learning activities.
The best posts will comment on the actual data and graphs created from our water calculator activity found here.
To earn a bonus point on your post try out another way to calculate the amount of water you use in your life found here. To earn the point compare your water calculator data from in class to the one you completed online. (This means your post should include actual numbers). Are they different? Why do you think so? Which is more accurate?
Also comment on how the water calculators themselves compare to one another.
During this week activity I notice that girls take longer in the shower which means that they also waste more gallon of water. I was shock when I actually saw the number of gallon I on a daily basic. Now I kinda understand why my parent rush me out the shower sense I live in a private house which is the worst because you have to pay water unlike apartment where you dont. But at the end of the day is impossible to take a 6 min shower unless your in the military. I also notice in the data that every person has a different solution my a long shot but this could also mean that each person uses more water then the other , like for example for laundry or washing dishes so every one is gonna be different sense everyone uses water differently in there situation. During the week I try to do Mr Fox shower homework but I couldnt as a person that comes home all sweaty from track I needed to take my time in the shower , but at I was amazed at some people's time in this assignment like for example David said he could did it in 1 minute and I still cant figure out how is that even possible. Anyways in general this assignment for the week was very interesting and made me understand more of how much gallons water we really waste.
ReplyDeleteDuring this weeks we learned that everything we do can waste alot off water.For example in one day some one can watse up to 339 gallons.I for instince waste only 42 gallons a day because i only last 5 minute in the shower saving a whole lot of water, but i dont consider my self a water hippie(some one cares about protecting the water).As i can see i take the fastest shower do to the fact people dont need to waste so much time geting in the shower unless you take the soup and rub one part of your body for like 20 minutes, and then repeat until every hair on your body is squiky clean. I belive we should protect and conserve our water supply because we only have 2% of water on earth that is usefull to humans. I tryed the dominican style shower and i sliped and the bucket feel on me and i just said "owwwwwww, how does any one do this", then i just gave up and went back to my shower.
ReplyDeleteThis week I learned a lot about the scarcity of fresh water on Earth. Only 3% of water on Earth is fresh and of that 3% only one third is not frozen. It is also alarming that 0.03% of all water on Earth is fresh water that can be found on Earth's surface. This includes lakes, rivers, streams and other bodies of fresh water. I found this topic to be the most interesting topic this week because all of the water that we have to at our disposal to drink is less than half of a percent of all of the water on Earth. This means that all of the water one uses comes from this 0.03% and if one person is wasteful with this water it hurts all of the humans all the planet. Since we live in a hydrosphere all of our water circulates through the planet so if we pollute our water it could eventually end up near the coastlines of another continent. Since we are so interconnected it is imperative that we do our best to conserve water. In class we recorded our water usage and I was surprised at the results.
ReplyDeleteIn class a lot of students, including myself, learned that we were wasting thousands of gallons of water each week. I wasted 1,591 gallons of water each week, which averages to approximately 227 gallons of water a day. This data made me realize that I am just as much a part of the water wasting problem as anyone else. There is no need for me to waste 227 gallons of water in 1 day and I feel guilty that I am helping to deplete the 0.03% of water we have access too. Another startling statistic was that I waste 350 gallons of water flushing the toilet each week. Just by flushing the toilet 1 time less each day I would decrease the amount of water I waste by over 100 gallons. Now that I know I am being careless with fresh water, I need to undo past wrongs by conserving water to the best of my ability. I learned how to do this when I created a procedure to take a sustainable shower. My procedure involved getting my body wet, turning the shower off, lathering my body with soap, turning the shower on, and rinsing. In total my group and I estimated that we would use 12 gallons of water per shower if we performed this procedure correctly. This procedure made me realize that it is not too late to live a more sustainable life. By holding myself accountable to rules like taking 5 minute showers, and flushing the toilet 3 times every day I will be able to minimize my water usage. In addition I decided to use an online calculator to estimate how much water I use each day. These results were even more alarming than the first ones. I use 99 gallons of water a day on my home, 974 gallons on my diet, 625 on transportation and energy, and 142 gallons on my stuff. In total I use 1.840 gallons of water a day, compared to the 227 gallons of water a day I recorded in my first water usage spreadsheet. This Water Footprint Calculator is far more accurate than the spreadsheet I filled out because it factors in every way that I use water. I now realize that almost everything I do requires water and I am so dependent on water that I am wasting this valuable resource. Therefore, this Water Footprint Calculator showed me that I need to create a plan to conserve water so that other generations can enjoy it in the future.
I wonder what impact this Water Footprint Calculator will have on other people? Will they feel like they need to conserve water like me? Will they ignore the data and continue living their lives unsustainably? I thought I was living an eco-friendly life before this week in class, and now I know that this isn't true. Humans need to do their best to correct their mistakes and save water while there still is enough water to save.
During this weeks we learned that everything we do can waste alot off water.also I learned a lot about the scarcity of fresh water on Earth. Only 3% of water on Earth is fresh and of that 3% only one third is not frozen. the experiment we did was really bad because iam cando a persont that really likes to be clean. well we need to know how many gallons of water we used the thing is that i use more than i hade to because i last and hour in the bathroom and i think iam a pesron that uses a lot of water no matter how much I really dont want two. But this week i guess i learn a very good leson we use to much water by killing the eath two. -whitney rodriguez
ReplyDeleteThis week we have been learning how water and the amount of fresh water we have. I knew the basic like most of the water we have is salt water. But what I really didn’t know was what’s the percentage of salt water to fresh water. I was expecting more like 75% for salt water and the rest for fresh water. I could say I was wrong about the percentage, by a mile. The real percentage for fresh water is 3% but the amount of water we use is less than that. I didn’t expect that number to exist but data doesn’t lie. Not only we has humans have 3% of fresh water but as Americans we use the double of amount of water than we have to use. That means that people are being ignorant and doesn’t care how the environment is functioning. Especially water is a huge source for the human body to keep working but society isn’t worry because we think that water will never extinct. If we humans keep wasting huge amount of water or water gets wasted we will be talking about a crisis.
ReplyDeleteWith that, our class this week has made studies and calculated the amount of water we use each day and week. It was an easy experiment because we just had to estimate the number of times we use it and the length of our showers. People were being surprised with the amount of water they waste. Before we have started the investigation we were asked about how many gallons we waste and some estimated around 20-50. But it was much more than that. I was surprised as well with 988 gallons I use each week. That might seem a lot but some of my classmates were more, from the 1000’s to the 3000’s and were talking about gallons. My result might seem low but I was proud of my results because it shows that I use less water. I thought it would be higher because of the amount of water I drink each day. But it didn’t affect my result by much. Shower was my highest number of gallons I use because it calculated to 372 gallons of water. Now I’m thinking about the amount of water I should use more often. But my result for my daily usage of water is up to 141 gallons. But now lets see the real result by using the footprint calculator. According to this calculator it shows that I use the double amount I use per week. By that I mean I use 1657 gallons per week. Now I was expecting lower numbers But to my view my score is lower to the average American, at least that’s a better result that I was expecting. So the classwork we did was estimated less than the one in the calculator but at least it still shows the amount of water we use each day. But still, not only me but also everyone should know the amount of water they use per day.
Before participating in this week’s activity, I hadn’t really thought much about the amount of water I actually used up, but I did know that it was a lot. Calculating my personal water usage was something that I had never done before, so to be able to see an approximation of how much water I use on a daily basis was not only interesting, but also surprising. Never did I suspect that I used about 1,753 gallons of water per week (about 250 gallons of water per day); that estimate alone is crazy to me, especially since the average New Yorker uses 136 gallons per day. Most of my water usage comes from showering, which is what I expected since I take the longest showers in my house. Showering also seemed to be the main area of high water usage for every student involved in the activity. By using the other water calculator on the National Geographic website, I was able to specify how much water I use in other areas like the food I eat, how much energy I use and how many things I buy. In total, the amount of water I used ended up being much more than my original average: about 1,910 gallons per day. If I was surprised before, then I was completely mind-blown after calculating my new average. However, I was pleased to see that I used about 178 gallons less than the average American (2,088 gallons per day). This higher average most likely comes from the addition of tasks that I undertake on a daily basis like on the first water calculator, but by being more specific instead of just general. Because of this, I would say that the second calculator is much more accurate. By being more specific, I was able to calculate a total that gave me a somewhat an exact amount of my water usage.
ReplyDeleteReferring back to the amount of water the average New Yorker uses, being able to see that each class’ averages is much higher is a bit troubling. The reason behind this is because of all the water on Earth, only about 3% of that water is considered freshwater while the other 97% is saltwater. Within that 3%, 60% of the water is trapped within polar ice caps and glaciers and 30% of the water is within groundwater. Only about 10% is accessible for us to use through surface water (lakes, rivers, watersheds). From that 10%, we only use 8%. The rest of that water is used for agriculture (70%) and in factories (22%). Keep in mind that this is all still within the 3% of our freshwater. Considering how much water is used and how much is actually available, it is clear that this water usage is excessive. Water maybe a renewable resource, but freshwater in particular is a limited resource. There’s simply no reason as to why we should ever have to fear the day that we run out of freshwater when there are so many ways to conserve it. Everyone on Earth has to stay true to the idea of sustainability in order to preserve what we have left of our freshwater.
During this week we learned a lot about how people waste a lot of water. I was really amaze because i dint know that i waste a lot of water. I found this activity enjoyable and very interesting because we know now that wasting water is bad for the environment and wasting water is like wasting energy in many ways. In class we discuss and learned that females waste more water then males and i was shock because how's that impossible! i was very surprise about that but now we know that wasting water in bad for the environment in many ways. A lot of people in New York waste a lot of water because they need to but in the same time is harming the environment. Wasting water create water shortage in many ways. The water that we drink today only takes up a small percentage of water. Saltwater is the largest percentage of water which means in order for it to be drank, you have to filter it out. Filtering water is very expensive, so whenever you leave water on, you are wasting the water so that is wasting water and we don't want that. In my house when i come from playing sport i take a really long bath and that's bad for the environment because im wasting a lot of water. This activity help me understand that we must conserved water and use water wisely.
ReplyDelete~Marino A. Ventura(4th period class Environmental Science)
Before learning about how much water is used in the world, I didn't even notice how much water I used. So then in class when I participated to see how much water I used in a day, which led to how much water I use weekly. When I calculated my data I knew that I used a specific amount of water but I didn't think that I used a lot of water. I found my information interesting because I didn't think that I would use that much water. I also learned that there is approximately only 3% of fresh water in the world. Which means that the rest of the water around the world is salt water or something else other the fresh water. I wonder what would happen if all the fresh water were to go to waste? Like would it ever run out? What would happen if fresh water would run out, what would we do? I think that starting now people around the world should start learning about how much water they are using. Once they learn about it they would know whats going on. They would start using less water than what they usually use, there could be more water to use for the future. This could help out everyone around the world.
ReplyDeleteJeffrey De La Cruz
This week during class we learned how to safe water and also why energy plays a big part when using water. During this week of class we calculated the amount of water we use in a week at home. In a week I use around 3,200 gallons of water mostly because am in the shower. During the water footprint calculator I got 2,088 gallons of water I think they are different because there could be different sources of errors such the accurate time in the shower and other things. I think they are different because the online water calculator probably calculates the average amount of water used where I live and also the average energy used. I think the one that is more accurate is my own calculation because we found out how many gallons are wasted in the shower which is around 6 gallons a minute. Also I think that my calculation is more accurate because in the online calculator it doesn't ask you for specific time or how you use the water. I also found out that energy plays a part when using water such as when you are trying to take a shower in hot water it takes energy to boil the water so it could come out hot. Also I learned that only 3% of water on earth is fresh water which seems a little amount but water is unique with its features.
ReplyDeleteBefore this weeks activity I didn't know the impact I had on water. This week I learned that all the water of earth is 100%. the percentage of salt water is 97%, there is a 2% of of polar ice caps and glaciers, a 0.97% if groundwater and a 0.03% of surface water which would be fresh water lakes, rivers, and watersheds and water vapor. Overall my water usage was of 294.5 gallons of water average per day. Most of the water used in all three classes was in the shower. According to the National Geographic Water Footprint Calculator I use 2,008 gallons of water. This is less than ,my original calculations at school which was about 294.5. I think the reason why some people got low or high water usage depends on the activities you do and how do you use the water.Females had the highest gallons/week water usage. I think showering has to be the reason why our water gallons / week increased is because thats were we probably spent the most time. I think the female scholars on average had the highest use of more water than males because we most likely do more chores that are water related. I didn't think we used that much water , but when looking at everyone else’s results it was shocking. Knowing that there is only a 0.03 % of freshwater in the world we should find ways to consume water because we are using water that can be use for future generations. We should make plan to make sure we're using sustainable. We should not let the water run for long or close the water faucet when is not in usage. I learned also from the video clip “ Water is Life” that less than 1 teaspoon of water is available to us , 1 billion people cannot obtain water, 3 billion have no access to water, and 70% of the worlds water is used for agriculture. I think this information is important because we have water but other people cannot obtain it so we shouldn't waste water instead we should try to sustain water
ReplyDeleteThis week was a very interesting one, we started off the week Modeling the Hydrosphere which was really cool, I learned that the percentage of all water on Earth is 70%, Earth’s salt water is 97%, Polar ice caps and glaciers is 2%, groundwater is 0.97% and surface water including freshwater lakes, rivers etc is 0.03 %. This is fascinating because the percentage of water we use is only 0.03, and I thought the water humans use is a lot, but it’s not which is a bit mind blowing. We also calculated how much water we use in our home which was a bit disturbing to see the results well at least for me. I found out that I use 2,373 gallons of water per week, 339 gallons of water per day and I use water most when I shower and take baths. I wasn’t surprised that I use this much water I just let myself be in denial but the reality is I do abuse the usage of water the data say’s it all. I was also surprised because in the whole class data it turned out that the males use more water than the females, the males use 1,880 gallons of water per week and 270 gallons of water per day. While the females use 1,731 gallons of water per week and 243 gallons of water per day which was very surprising because females tend to take long in showers and cleaning and all those things so for the males to use more water was shocking, I think it is because there are more males in my class them females. What was even more surprising was when all the data from all three classes was put into a graph it turned out that the class that uses more gallons of water per day was period 4 followed by period 2 leaving period 6 in last. However when all the class data was put together females turned out to use more gallons of water per day then males due which seems reasonable to me.
ReplyDeleteThe way we calculated the data in class is just one way of determining how water is used every day by humans. I couldn’t do the survey online which was another way of determining how much water I use but I did play a game called water wiz which showed me how much water I use in different parts of my house for different things. The objective of the game was to use objects that contain certain amount of gallons of water to see how many of those objects are needed for things around the house. There were four objects; There was a 2 litter soda bottle which contains .5 gallons of water , a aquarium tank ( the ones at home) which holds 10 gallons of water, a bathtub which holds 70 gallons of water, and a swimming pool which on average holds 22,000 gallons of water. I took examples from the game in every part of a space in a home where people spend a lot of time at which would be places like the bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. In the bathroom section I found out that each time you flush a toilet about 2.5 gallons of water is flushed away which is the same as five 2 liter soda bottles that is a lot for just a flush, in my opinion. In the bedroom section it said 370 gallons of water is used to make single kids t-shirt (most of it is used to grow the cotton) which is equivalent to 32 fish tanks filled with water. In the kitchen I found that it takes 630 gallons of water to make a hamburger (water goes to the food grown to feed cows) which is equivalent to 9 bathtubs full. All these facts make me worry about the future because we are beginning now to talk about a water crisis what will it look like in the future? What we did in class and this game opened my eyes on how I use water and how I should change my ways because I do not want to be in a situation where I don’t have water. From now I want to help restore our freshwater ecosystem, I think I will start with planning a very effective and reasonable but also helpful sustainable shower.
This past week we took a look at the hydrosphere on earth and we also looked at our water usage. The earth is 70% water, but that 70% is distributed among many sources. Of the total amount of water on earth 97% is salt water, 2% is from polar ice caps, 0.97% is groundwater, and 0.03% is surface water. Based on the data it is important to preserve water because we depend on fresh water. In class we calculated our water usage using a chart. Calculating an individual’s water usage can help to preserve water.
ReplyDeleteCalculating our water usage was an interesting activity because it provoked self reflection. By calculating water usage of several activities we came to an estimation of our weekly and daily average water usage. Calculating data this way was helpful because we were able to break down larger amounts of data so that we can identify activities were we can reduce water usage. An area where I can reduce water usage is showering. Looking at our class data the majority of people use most water when showering. We targeted this finding by synthesizing a method for sustainable showering. Coming up with this method helped us be creative because we had to make the method effective and efficient, it had to be possible to execute as well. We had to change the way we were accustomed to showering. Graph data shows that as a class we use an average of 243 gallons of water a day. The graph also shows that male students in period 2 use more water than female students on average. My average daily usage was significantly less than daily class average. Some students use more water than others and it is reflected on the class average.
Although the data was interesting it did not account all of the ways one uses water and our calculations could have been inaccurate because we did not track our daily water usage. Overall, this experience was helpful because we see the importance of water and how we use it in our everyday lives. Water is fundamental to everything on earth, it would be impossible to cope without this invaluable resource. Water should be preserved, but we are using more water than it can be supplied. People should be aware of their water usage so that the supply system is not strained. Using water sustainably will ensure that we have usable water in the future.
In class, we explored our own usage of water. On Earth, all bodies of land are surrounded by 97% bodies of water. Of that 97%, only 0.03% is available for us to use. Yet, we manage to take that small percentage for granted. Water is a natural resource that will eventually cease to exist with the way we are over using it without meaning. Water is excessively used by humans without conservation and is also used for agriculture or to promote something such as businesses with a beautiful water fountain (and all that it serves as is eye candy for the customer).
ReplyDeleteWhen our class did the clay activity, we used the clay (which represented water) to divide that 97% of water down to the percentages it is categorized as. When we finally divided the percentage of water available to us, we realized that there really isn’t much water for us to use. Then, when we conducted the survey which gave us an estimate of the amount of water we use per week, some of us (especially me) were surprised.
Turns out that the majority of us don’t really conserve water. While brushing our teeth, we leave the water running. I know that I definitely do not conserve water in the best ways possible. I like to let my water run before I jump in the shower and when I’m in the shower, I take up to an hour; and I take a shower twice a day. Having the highest amount of water usage, I ended up estimating 4,000 gallons of water used each week by just me. That did not include anyone else in my house hold. Not only that, but in observing the graph, my class concluded that the females take much longer in the shower than the males. The females used up to 1,000 gallons more than the males. This was an interesting observation that made my class want to figure out why that was. We theorized that females have more maintenance to take care of, but that doesn’t excuse our irresponsible usage of water. Now that I am aware of my water usage, I am trying to cut back on it, but I find it very difficult to change my routines. But, no matter how difficult it is, I know that I must try.
If we want to give future generations a secure life, then we should begin to make a change. The amount of water available to us in incredibly small so for us to use it irresponsibly is absurd. Just because we (NYC) have an abundance of water, doesn’t mean that other countries such as Africa do as well. We often find ourselves taking our natural resources for granted. However, the same way oil is growing scarce, water will do the same. Will the next world war be about water? Only time will tell.
This week we learned that 70 percent of the earth is water, out of this 70 percent 97 percent is salt water, 2 percent is frozen water, 0.97 percent is ground water and only 0.03 percent is surface water which includes lakes, rivers, and streams. These statistics are shocking since a there is a very large percentage of water that we don’t have access to and can’t see. In our class the average use of water was 247 gallons a day and 1,797 a week, this was very far from the estimate I made in the beginning of the week which was about 15 gallons a day, and 105 a week. There were also interesting trends in the data we collected about our personal water usage. One of these included that for the most part females use more water than males. We also found out that a lot of water is used in the process of showering. This makes sense because it is when we leave the water on for longest and something we do daily unlike things like laundry and cooking. Some students in the class used more than 4,000 gallons of water a week and others used as low as 343 gallons a week. Discussing ways in which we can take efficient showers is a way to use water in a more sustainable way. Ways discussed were taking “military showers” where the water would be shut off when not being used and then turned on when necessary. Methods like these will help individuals be more sustainable in the way they use water.
ReplyDelete~Karina Tavarez
This week Ilearn that only 2 percent is frozen water, 70 percent of the earth is full of water, 97 percent is salt water, 0.03 is fresh water,lakes, rivers, and watersheds and also water vapor that all we got to drink that is clean. and 0.97 is ground water. I also learn that a lot of people waste a lot of water gallon even people that hardly got water they used it all up, me I take 15minutes in the shower i waste 62 gallon. is better then other people that waste more gallon specially girls that waste alot of gallon since they take longer in the shower. Water is important to preserve water because we depend on fresh water and people now a day are fighting and some scare that we gonna run out of water and they be some people abusing the water to much dont think about others. Also i feel like girls waste more water then guys because they the one that usually do the lundry, shower, cook , and shower longer washing their hair.
ReplyDelete~Felix Guzman
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ReplyDeleteThis week we learned that 70 percent of the earth is water, out of this 70 percent 97 percent is salt water, 2 percent is frozen water, 0.97 percent is ground water and only 0.03 percent is surface water. This week our class calculated how much water we use in week. My results were that I use about 2,511 gallons of water per week. I don’t really know if that’s a lot or fit isn't , but that’s what I got. I use the most water when I am showering. In my class data it is shown that the males of the class use more water than the females of the class. My class was the only class where that was the situation. The males in my class use an average of 1,889 gallons of water per week while the females use an average of 1,587 gallons of water per week. During this lesson I learned that America is overusing water and I guess I am part of that large percentage of America that is overusing water. I mostly overuse it while showering because its nice and relaxing being in the shower. I think people especially Americans don’t understand that it is a luxury having water and we take that luxury for granted , including myself. We are selfish and only think about what makes us feel good and not about what we are depriving others of or who or what we are harming. To diminish some of my ignorance and selfishness I promise to try to cut down the amount of water I use in my life. One way I will try to keep this promise is my cutting down the amount of time I spend in the shower , I will gradually try to be more sufficient with water.
ReplyDeleteElmis Rodriguez 6th pd
ReplyDeleteThe whole world is surrounded by water, in fact water makes up about 70 percent of the earth. Without water there is no life. A whopping 97 percent of all water on earth is salt water. That means only 3 percent of all water on earth is safe to drink. Out of that 3 percent, 2 percent of it is frozen and we cannot reach it. that means only 1 percent of all water on earth is reachable. 0.97 percent of that 1 percent is ground water and then 0.03 is surface water. all this information means that there is not a lot of water to waste. Today’s world is so unsustainable that we are essentially going over water limit and tapping into tomorrow’s water. This week we studied our water usages and how our usages compare to other students My data was about average at 160 gallons a day, 1119 a week. I was shocked to find out how much water a shower consumed. I felt guilty a little because I remembered that in some countries don’t have clean water to drink or at all, yet we are wasting so much just on showers. This realization caused me to try the navy shower, a shower in which you utilize every drop of water in order to save water. This type of shower is not very satisfying so I gave up and went back to my usual 10 minute shower, aww so relaxing.
Throughout this whole week, we’ve been discussing the amount of water usage around the world and as individuals per day and week. I’ve been educated on how the amount of water on earth is distributed throughout the world in different ways. The amount of water on earth is only 70% just like the human body. This shows how earth and the human body have a balance to everything and maybe the only reason why the human body and earth keep a balance temperature. I also learned tat 97% of the water on earth is salt water. This is not so great I many ways because this shows how not much of the water on earth is fresh for us to drink, also only 3% of the water on earth is fresh. This should concern us in many ways, it should be the opposite, more fresh water than there is polluted water. Human activity has become a problem way long ago even before we were born, the difference is that more people have realize the effects from those activities. Human activities have jeopardized the amount of fresh water we have on earth. We have polluted and miss used water throughout centuries without even knowing. Factories and in general urbanization have destroyed the beauty of nature and how easy it was to access fresh water.
ReplyDeleteOur class results were very shocking as a whole and as individuals. Who would have known that so many gallons of water was used per one person every day and in a week. I didn’t realize that when your shower water in running for a minute, you already have used up 1 gallon of water. As a result, my class period uses up as a whole 247 gallons per day and 1,797 gallons per week, that is an incredible shocking amount of water usage. This high water usage result is mostly from the long showers we all take. If one minute of water running is 1 gallon of water than how many gallons of water is 30-40 minutes in the shower? This must be shocking to many people because most of us especially girls use up the most amount of water everyday, either because of long showers or because of washing their hair. According to the data females use up to 1,823 gallons of water per week and per day 260 gallons of water. From personal experience it is very hard for females to not take long showers, I believe its something natural for girls to be that way. Though these results have opened my eyes into wanting to change my habits of taking long showers or thinking twice before leaving the water running while brushing my teeth.
This weeks class has made me think a lot about what I should do and can do to help protect and miss use water. The way we use water is very important because water is a resource in our planet just like trees that provide oxygen we can’t run out of. We have to keep in mind that a living organism can’t live without water on earth. It was very interesting learning about this topic because it isn’t a topic that we should just learn to learn because it’s school, we should take that information with us so that we can teach the future generations to use water more wisely something that most of our parents didn’t do. We should also keep in mind that if water becomes one of those resources that are is hard to access because there is too little, it can result as world conflict. The conflict will not be about oil anymore but the access to fresh water that not many people have today. Water may also become as individuals hard to access because of economic reasons. There are many reasons why we should make a move and contribute to make a change in the way we use water.
This week we learned about how much water we waste and if that is an excessive amount of water or a necessary amount of water.We also learned that 70% of earth is made of water and 97% of that 70% of earth water is saltwater. 2% is frozen water .97% is groundwater and 0.03 is surface water. Because these statistics we should preserve water due to the fact that we depend on it and other wildlife also depend on it as a food source,energy source and even when migrating from one place to another they stop for water. It is important that we begin to preserve water because all life depend on water to survive because you can only live around 3 days without drinking water but last weeks without eating.Being able to have an estimate of how much gallons I waste a day and a week was interesting because it’s something that i never really put mind to but when i found out that I waste 357 gallons of water a day I was kind of surprised because I knew that I used a lot of water but I thought it was less than that. I was even more surprised finding out that I use 2,499 gallons of water a week because I am wasting lots of energy mainly because I use the most gallons when showering and I shower with hot water and that wastes more energy. The class average weekly was 1,731 which is not so bad what I found surprising about are class data was that the boys waste more gallons of water for my class data. During class we talked about how we are able to preserve more water and we said to limit the time we use to take a shower or when washing dishes to not leave the water running.
ReplyDeleteDuring this week in class, I have noticed that people use the bathroom more then anything. We don't notice how much water the bathroom contains before we use it, then we flush it and then more water returns to the bowl. Noticing all the water being used in the shower, sink, and toilets is incredible. Going into the shower for 5 mintues or less is 15 million gallons of running water. However the last couple of days I haven't been attending to class, so I didn't have a chance to do the chart like the rest of the class, which is why my blog post is very short.
ReplyDeleteDuring this week we have learned about how people waste a lot of water.I have learned that all water of earth is 100%.The percentage of salt water is 97% , there is a 2% of polar ice caps,groundwater is 0.97% which mean that it can be fresh water ponds, ocean, river ect.However my overall of my water use was of 9066.4 gallons of water average per day.the whole class data turned out that females use more water than males.I also learned from the clip " water is life" that less than 1 teaspoon of water is available to us and 1 billlion have no access to water.
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This weeks in class we learned that everything we do waste a lot off water this includes showering, cleaning dishes and making food. I also learned that 3% of water on earth is fresh and of that 3% only one third is not frozen, that means that we only have one third of water that we can drink. There is 70% amount of water on earth and 97% of that water is salty. One thing that I remember about the video this week is that every living thing on earth depend on water. I found this week topic to be every interesting because not even half of the water on earth is fresh water and we are always overusing our water. This shows how many people don't take care of the environment they are living on. During this week we also did a experiment on our class to see how much water we use every day and week. In my class u notice that girls use more water than boys and there are more boys than girls in our class. My class(period 4) is the class that use more gallons of water in class. In all three classes almost every one use a lot of water when they are taking a shower. I notice that Amber is the one In my class that use more water and Jovany is the one that use the least water in my class. All males use 1,474 gallons in a week and all females use 1,823 gallons in a week. This shows that females use a lot more water than makes. I believe that we should take care more of the fresh water we use. One example is that we should turn off the water when we our brushing out teeth and turn on when we out done to wash our mouth. Other good example is the one that my partner Rayme had.
ReplyDeleteThis week I have learned the amount of water that humanity has consumed daily, and how the negative effect of how much water we consume can impact humanity’s future. In total the Earth is 70% water, just as humans. Out of this water, 97% of the water on the planet is salt water, 3% is actually drinkable but of that 3%, 2% is frozen, .97% is groundwater and finally .03% is fresh liquid water. Adding on it shocks me because humanity uses so much water and wastes it when statistics show that we only have so much water given to us. To me it impacts me because I know that about 0.03% of the water is actually on the surface and we reduce that amount each day because we over consume water in a rapid rate, more rapid that the Earth can actually recycle back to the surface.
ReplyDeleteIn class we did an experiment to estimate how much water we consume over a week span. To my knowledge I was wasting close to one-thousand gallons of water per week. And to make my estimate a bit more precise I did the online calculator test that determines how much (or close) water I am using in a year. I was even more surprised that I spent 122 gallons of water at home per day when the average American’s usage was 100 gallons per day. Adding on another statistical data that was shocking was the amount of water we use without noticing it, the article states “Nearly 95 percent of your water footprint is hidden in the food you eat, energy you use, products you buy, and services you rely on”. As astonishing as my data shocked me, there some people who were consuming over 2000 gallons of water, which makes me cringe at how people waste so much water when in other countries they struggle to get a single glass of fresh water to drink. To resolve this issue, we were assigned to groups and were given the objective to reduce water by creating a method to waste less water as a daily usage. The most common method was turning off the water when wanting scrubbing yourself with soap. This on average saves 6 minutes worth of time which in a year can save hundreds of gallons. Although guys do use water, and not to point out a sexist theory, I believe that girls tend to use more water because some state that they take more time in the shower and things to make their hair better, and based on our Latino culture, women tend to clean and use more water to keep the house clean. This proves my theory that women use more water. The interesting fact I have learned was that almost anything is made with or because of water, which adds on the strain of water we use.
This week in class, we learned about the different percentages of water on Earth and our average daily use of water. Out of all of the water on Earth, only 3% of it is available for life to consume. 97% of water is salt water from seas and oceans, 2% of the water is made up of ice caps and glaciers, 0.97% is ground water from aquifers and 0.3% is surface water. Also, in class, in groups, we were able to create our own versions of showers we thought would not only save time but save the amount of water used during the shower. There were variations, but a consensus was reached that you should turn on and turn off the faucet during the shower.
ReplyDeleteThis week what I found most interesting was that most of the water humans on Earth use comes from surface water, the smallest percentage of all the water available on Earth which comes from lakes, rivers and vapor water. It is surprising to me since there are billions of people in the world, and populations keep increasing everyday. It’s amazing how such a small percentage of water is able to sustain so many human beings, plants, and animals. It is especially interesting that we also use this small percentage of water to accommodate to our human necessities and luxuries such as preparing food, making clothes, washing dishes, showering or even watering a lawn. This definitely makes me wonder how we are easily able to access so much water from such little availability of sources. Also, how has this water been distributed globally amongst so many countries and individuals? Is there any kind of system that organizes the sharing of these sources?
Additionally, in class we were able to calculate each of our individual use of water each day. I learned that I use about 85 gallons of water everyday, which may be because both my showerhead and toilet are low-flow. However, the class average for daily use of water was about 243 gallons a day. In Period 4, the class average was about 247 gallons and in period 6, the average was about 181 gallons. On average, females used more gallons of water a day than males, except in period 2. Compared to the average New Yorker, who uses approximately 136 gallons of water everyday, I am below average. Yet, when considering class averages, it seems we use more than the average New Yorker. This definitely goes to show how we all as a community are unaware of how much water we waste, especially us teenagers. For example, in each of the data for each class, the most amount of water was used when taking a shower/bath. Clearly, we all take the amount of water we have for granted. Some of us just let the water run, and we all use more than what is necessary. What we don’t think about is what would happen to us if our sources of fresh water completely diminished. How would we wash our clothes, brush our teeth, or use the bathroom? Globally, every individual should reconsider how much water they use and in some way try and reduce it to the bare minimum. At this rate, if we keep abusing our water privileges, our water supply will not be enough to maintain all life on Earth. This makes me think about how long it would be until there wouldn’t be enough water for everyone? How long can life survive without water? Are there any ways we can use salt water to sustain life? What can we all do to conserve the most water possible?
This weeek in class we been learning about how us human take up to much amount of water. We learned facts about sources of water for example, All the water of the Earth in total, Earth's salt water found in Ocean and Seas, Polor ice caps and glaciers, groundwater(aquifers0 and surfacewater(freshwater, lakes river and watershed = water vapor0 we also learn about water in our life. Water is depenable and 70 percent of it is use for industrial use and only 8percent for home use. I found this very intresting. We also filled in our own data about how mucch water we use in a day and in a week. We had to mutiply it too see how much is that water in gallon, we also had to find it's avg. To me it was pretty much what I expected to see in the amount of water we use up in a day and in a week. However I found it odd how female use up more water then male, intill it came to me that females really do because we do more around the house which includes water use. Forexa,ple, cook, wash clothes and do dishes. Finally in the end of the week we saw a movie named Planet Earth and we learned about different animals and water features our planet has I learned also only 3 percent of our water is fresh that took me for a shock.
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We may all think that all the water we waste at home isn't affecting our world and our surroundings. If we really estimate and calculate the times we use water and how long we use water weekly, we wouldn't believe it that that’s the actual amount of water we waste every week. This is the same reaction I had when I got to see my actual amount of water I waste. Also, to come and think of it, I’m basically included in the area where one of the genders used up more water than the opposite gender. According to my reaction, you can tell that females are the ones who use up more water than males. In other words, females have an average of 1,823 gallons of water used in a week, while males have an average of 1,474 gallons of water used in a week. In my opinion, the reason why females use more water than males is because we have more and longer hair than males, yet we have to use more shampoo and conditioner, and most females usually untangle their hair while the water is running. Another reason why I think females use up more water than males is because we use more than one type of soap to scrub. For example, on my first scrub, I use a non-strong smelling soap, but on my second scrub, I use a strong-smelling soap. There can be many other reasons why females use up more water than males, but overall I've also noticed that most of the water has been used while each individual showers.
ReplyDeleteAccording to my results, I've noticed that I’m the penultimate person who uses up a lot of water in a week. In a week, I use about 2,301 gallons of water, which minimizes to 329 gallons daily. These numbers actually scare me because I feel as if I’m abusing water in a very harsh way, which is not good. We should always economize the water as much as possible because we cannot live without water.
I've decided to calculate the amount of water I use in my life a different way, so the data I got was that the total pledges so far are 61,428 and the total daily gallons saved are 12,257,802. The data also told me that I have pledged 38 gallons daily and by cutting 38 gallons daily, I’m pledging to cut my water footprint by 2%. Honestly, I tried to calculate the water I use up daily, but the only thing I understand is that I decided to eliminate the use of 38 gallons per day. I say that this is a very small amount to save up compared to the amount of gallons of water I use daily which is 329 gallons per day. Therefore, I believe I should organize the way I will use water efficiently to save the world I live in and provide enough water to other people who need water, too. I think that I shouldn't be selfish with all the water I use up. In other words, I think everyone in our community should think the same way and economize the amount of water we use every day and every week.
This week we learned about the amount of water we use daily and weekly. We learned that 97% of our water is salt water. 2% of our water is polar ice and glaciers,o.97% is groundwater,and 0.3% is fresh water. I was surprised by the amount of water I use. I use about 183 gallons of water a day and 1,280 a week. All of us use the most water showering or bathing. We also discussed ways in which we could use less water. We said that we could use less water while turning it off while brushing our teeth. We also made a plan to take shorter showers. My partner and I said that we would take one minute to turn on the water and pour it on yourself. Then we put soap on with the water off for 2 minutes. The last step was to take off the soap which will take two minutes. In total we will be using 18 gallons of water and take a 5 minute bath. We have to stop using so much water so that we can save some for the future.
ReplyDeleteThis week in Environmental Science, I was able to calculate my own personal water usage, analyze this data, and synthesize a procedure for sustainable showering. Before doing these activities, I never really cared about how much water I used because it was just there in my reach when I need it for example I have never been dehydrated. Another thing is that I never heard my mom say that a bill needed to be paid for it unlike the rent, cable, or light bill. However, I now know that my mom doesn’t have to state whether or not a bill must be paid for water because the next global issue will be water and eventually humans are going to have to pay for it. For example, when I calculated my own personal water usage I noticed that I waste the most water when I take a shower. I believe this is accurate because I take a long time in the shower as well the amount of showers I take in a day. Therefore, after noticing that I personally use 1567 gallons of water in a week (223 per day) I am guilty of destroying the environment but unfortunately I will not stop; I can only limit my daily usage of this resource. I was also able to compare my water usage to the amount of water people in my class waste and that was shocking. People in my class use 1797 gallons of water per week but the surprising thing was that females use more water than males. In addition to this, my class is also the one that uses the most class compared to period 2 who uses only 1731 gallons of water per week and period 6 who only uses 1249. Based on these results, I believe that the students that are most sustainable are those in the period 6 class because that is the class with the least amount of students. Water is used without restrictions by humans and just like everything else water is taken for granted. The problem is that as a society we need to learn how to conserve as much water as possible but even when we create methods people don’t really follow them. For example, in class I learned about creating a procedure of taking a shower and limiting the amount of water that I use but even though I see it as an effective method I am someone that does not put the method in practice because I still like taking my long showers and the truth is that when I shower for some reason this idea does not cross my mind. I believe this is due to all of the daily activities and schedule that takes over my life especially since time, just like water does not stop until a certain moment. Overall, my questions now are where does all the water go, where is water filtered, and how does the overconsumption of water affect global warming?
ReplyDeleteThis week showed me how little people value water. Water covers 71% of the Earth’s surface and it is essential to all forms of life. Humans and animals depend on water to live, yet humans have concluded a negative outcome on the usage of water. Do we really use water? Or do we just waste it? This week in class, each period did a data on how much water they use each day. On average, period two uses 1,731 gallons, period four uses 1,787 gallons, and period six uses 1,249 gallons a week. Although the data is not 100% approximate, that is a lot.
ReplyDeleteThis week we had to come up with ways to use less water. One person came up with the idea of using a bucket and filling it up with water and naming the procedure “Shawow” which is actually a very good idea. I actually had to do that one time last year. It was winter and my mom likes to leave the window of the bathroom wide open. So I like to use a lot of hot water. Unfortunately, there was none, but then I went to the kitchen and turned on the faucet and there was hot water. I took this bucket about 2 ½ feet and filled it up with hot water. Of course I used that to shower but honestly it was a hassle.
I actually used the Water footprint calculator and I was not surprised with my results. It says I use 53 gallons of water daily. Personally, I use a lot of water when I shower, brush my teeth, and wash the dishes, but those results are on how much water I use alone. I can imagine how much water is used in my entire household. I was actually surprised when the footprint calculator asked how many times I traveled and I wonder what that has to do with water. Honestly, I don’t think I can get used to cutting how much water I use daily; it’s something I’m used to. One thing that actually bothers me is when somebody doesn't close the faucets tightly and there’s water still running which actually does waste more water, so I go close the faucet every time.
70 percent of the earth id covered by water and 97 percent of it its salt water. This meaning that we can't use that water, also 2 percent of the water is fresh , but only 1 percent of that water we can actually use , the reason why is because the other 2 percent is stuck in ice glaciers. So are we wasting water ? , what are we doing to conserve the water? . These are the questions that have come up in my mind this entire week because when I look back to my life i have used a lot of water and I think that i have been using to much water .But this week we had a assignment and the task was to come up with a procedure on how to shower and save water at that same time and what I came up with was while im showering I should turn on and off the shower . What I mean is that when I don't need the water at that moment turn it off. And so when I reflect on this weeks lesson I that we all do waste water and I think that us as a group should find ways so that we can conserve water because as the statistics stated we only have 1 percent of water that we can actually use for our everyday life needs.
ReplyDeleteThis week in class we learned about the distribution of water on planet Earth, how to calculate the different ways we use water in our lives and the amount we use weekly. I personally, did not know I used approximately 344.4 gallons of water daily. It was a shocking and helpful experience because it made me realize how much unnecessary water I use daily.
ReplyDeleteWhile I was analyzing my data I saw that I waste more water while I am showering which led to making a procedure on how to take a sustainable shower.
While we analyzed our data, our data consists of a list of my classmates’ amount of gallons wasted per week and the average of gallons of water wasted per day. With the data, Mr. Fox created bar graphs showing how much water female use and the amount of water male students’ use. In my class; period 4, female students use more water than male students. What shocked me the most was that in my class there are only 10 females and 17 male students but yet we’ve wasted more water than the male students.
The water calculator data from class is different from the one online because the water calculator we used in class asks questions more personal not based on the amount of people that live in your household. They are similar because they both asked similar questions like how many showers or baths we take in a week. These calculators are different because in the calculator we did in class; we have to multiply a specific number to the number of times we do the activity each day to get our results. Personally, I think that the water calculator we did in class is more accurate because it’s based on personal activities we do daily. Also it shows how exactly to get the amount of water gallons we use in a week.
This week, I had the wonderful experience to calculate my personal water usage, analyze the data, and even synthesize a procedure for sustainable showering. During our water calculations I calculated that I personally use 2,693 gallons per week, and 385 gallons per day. I also use the most water while showering. This was not a surprise to me because I know that I only drink a lot of water when I’m in a game or practicing. I shower for a really long time, and I do not do my own laundry, nor do I cook for myself. Unlike a couple of my classmates, I had an average water usage because I do not overuse or underuse it (in comparison to the class). For example, the student with the highest water usage uses 4,815 gallons per week and 688 gallons per day. On the contrary, the student with the lowest water usage uses 1,974 gallons per week and 282 gallons per day. Therefore, I fall in the range of average since I’m towards the middle. Similarly, it was interesting to see that female student use 2,575 gallons of water per week and 340 gallons per day. While male students use 1,339 gallons of water per week and 193 gallons per day. The class as a whole uses 1,797 gallons per week and 247 gallons per day.
ReplyDeleteIt was also interesting to see what different students will do in order to conserve water. For example, I will personally turn off the faucet while brushing my teeth, shower in less time and turn off the faucet while doing the dishes. This being because when I brush my teeth, I usually take a long time and I leave the water running which wastes water. I also do the same when I’m doing the dishes. Whenever I am scrubbing the dirt off of the dishes, I always leave the water running which wastes water because I am not using it at the moment. Instead I should turn the faucet off, and turn the faucet on when I actually need to let it run through the dishes to take the soap off.
We all knew that water made up most of our planet, but I didn’t know that only 0.03% is easily available for us humans. Of all water on earth, 97% is salt water, too salty for human use, the 3% are fresh water, but 2% of that is polar ice caps, 0.97% is groundwater and 0.03% is the surface water and what is readily available to us. The surface water includes bodies of water such as rivers and lakes. Because of the scarcity of fresh water on earth, we must preserve what we have of fresh water, yet the people of this planet, especially in America, are flaunting and over using water as if it was a renewable source, while other countries are in desperate need of it.
ReplyDeleteTo discover how much water we use, we filled out a chart with different daily and weekly activities and predicted how many times such is done to assume the number of gallons we use. According to the chart, I use 892.5 gallons every week and 127.5 every day! Of course I found this odd because I know I spend a lot of more. Some of my classmates spend over 2,000 gallons a week, and according to the class chart, it was all based on showers. Because if this, we generated shower plans to spend less water and tried them at home. I honestly couldn’t go through my plan, I just get lost in my thoughts, but little by little im starting to take shorter showers.
According to the online water calculator, I actually spend 1,854 gallons of water a week, 77 at home, 811 in my diet, 643 in transportation and energy, and 323 in just my stuff. All but my stuff are below the average American use of water (no surprise there, I spend more than I can manage). The calculations set online, I believe, are more accurate because they provide more activities that are performed daily for a more accurate prediction of our water use. They are very different than the 892.5 I supposedly use in a week, and a wakeup call that I should limit the amount of water I use for the sake of others and our planet.
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ReplyDeleteThis week in Environmental Science we calculated our water usage. By using the water usage calculator sheet from class, I found out that I use about 336 gallons of water per day and about 2,349 per week. Most of the water I use is from showering or taking baths, which wasn't a surprise to me all. I've always known that I waste an extreme amount of water. However, I was surprised to see that I wasn't the only who uses up that much water. A few other students in my class use more than 2,000 gallons a week too. By looking at the graphs, it was easier to see that the boys use up more water than the girls, which was also surprising because I always figured it takes girls a lot longer to get ready in the morning and at night. I expected girls to waste a lot more water than they really did. My class was actually the only class where the girls used up less water than the boys, but that could have been an error. I think some people either lied about how much water they waste or just didn't know the accurate amount, so it's hard to get an accurate comparison of all the classes. For example, someone in period 4 says they use 4,185 gallons per week and that seemed pretty extreme to me. Someone in period 6 says they use 27 gallons a day which also seems extreme to me because then their showers would have to be like 2-3 minutes long and I have never heard of anyone who showers that fast. Nonetheless, it was still pretty cool to see how much water we use because I never even knew how much gallons are wasted whenever I use water for anything. That's not something I ever really think about as I'm using up water.
ReplyDeleteThe online water calculator I think gave me a more accurate amount of water that I use up because it took into consideration a lot more aspects of our everyday life. For example, I didn't know we use up water even when we buy clothes, paper, or electronics. The parts where I had to put down how much I spend on clothes and electronics was the part that made my water footprint increase by a lot. My water footprint went up by a lot more than it did when I put down how long my showers last. That was the most surprising part to me. Other than that, the amount of water I use at home was still about the same. The only time I wasted more water than the average American was in the “water used by your stuff” section.
This exercise made me re-think a lot of things. I realized that I probably shouldn't take such long showers. I think it would be impossible for me to shower under 10 minutes but I also don't think it's reasonable for me to take hour long showers all the time. Also, I realized I probably shouldn't buy so many things. Sometimes I can't help myself when I go shopping because I think that the only bad thing that could happen would be that I wouldn't have any money to keep buying more things but I never knew it was actually harmful to our planet. Next time I go shopping I need to ask myself if what I'm buying is really necessary because I'm not only wasting money, I'm also wasting a lot of water.
During this week in class I learned many sources of water. The percentages of these waters were 100%,97%,2%,0.97% and 0.03%. These sources of water are all water on earth,earth salt water,polar ice caps and glaciers,ground water and surface water.When I learned about these percentages it surprised me because I never really thought that these sources of water would be broken down like this. Something else I learned this week that called my attention was calculating the amount of water I use in my life.When I calculated the amount of water I waste every week it came out to be 1543 and per week 220.4. Which means the numbers calculated are gallons of water being wasted threw the activties being done each day or once or twice a week. The activity that I waist the most water in is showering.Which in average all my classmates had the same as in the activity they waist the most water in.Something that I tried doing was to take a shower in 5 minutes which actually didn't work it because I took longer.In the future I will actually time myself so that I'm not wasting so much water on showering that could be used for something else .
ReplyDeleteContinuing with our water unit and sustainability we looked in to all the water on Earth. We first found out that out of all the water in the world only 3% is fresh water and out of that 2% is frozen. Therefore there is less water available then what we use. Then we calculated the amount of gallons of water we use a week which for me was 887.25 gallons. Which socked me because I believe I did used a lot of water with an average of 126.75 gallons a day. That made me think about all the water we use a day really adds up to a lot. Then I used a different water calculator that took into consideration more things like my clothing use, energy and much more I discovered that I used on average 1,585 gallons a day. This after including many things that I did not realized that took water to make like transportation. And thinking again how important water is to all living species of Earth, well water is the only reason we are able to live in this hydrosphere. Since we live in a hydrosphere it means that the amount of water we use affects all the other species and even people on the planet. Furthermore we should take in to consideration how much water we use. Similarly like most of the class wasted the most water talking showers, which made us, come up with the procedure to take the most efficient shower. This shower involved turning off the water to save water, it was basically turn on the water get wet, turn off water apply soap every where then turn water on and remove soap. This shower would take around 10 minutes and only use around 12 gallons of water as appose to the 60 that it would take if the shower was left on all the time. Overall I discovered many things I did not know about water and even my usage of water, and what to take steps to use the minimal possible amount of water to help our environment live on.
ReplyDeleteThis week we learned how much water we basically use up every day and every week. We use up the most water basically when we take a shower. We also learned strategies that allow us to use up less water. For example when we are brushing our teeth we can turn the water off while we are brushing instead of letting the water run the whole time. We can also save water by using shower heads on low. We also learned that 97% of the water on earth is salt water and 3% is only made up of fresh water. This shows us that although it may seem like we have an unlimited amount of water we don’t. We actually have a small amount of water available and if we were not able to recycle water, our water supply in a few years would probably be gone. What we learned this week relates to what we learned a few weeks passed about scarcity. Scarcity is when there is a limited amount of a resource and in this case the limited resource is water.
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ReplyDeleteI never really thought about how showering ,and washing dishes and other daily activities affected or used so many gallons of water. I learned we only have 3% of water in the world which is fresh and clean for us to live and survive. We waste so much water everyday that we don't even think about how it can affect us in the future or anyone else in the world. I learned that I use 264 gallons of water everyday which wasn't a number I even imagined. Before I learned about the water usage in America I believed we used about 25 gallons of water a day. It amazes me how we only have 3% of water to claim as our own while the rest is salty or frozen which prevents us from even having access to it. This week in class really changed the way I viewed the world and water . We need to be more careful and look out for ourselves and our natural resources. Everything around us is made out of water and we don't seem to even appreciate its existence when it plays such an important role in our lives. In a week I use 2,904 gallons of water which is an extremely large number. I vow to use water responsibly and to be more careful and observing of my world. Females use way more water than Males because we have more responsibilities but I need to change the way I distribute it. I'm going to start taking shorter showers and stop letting the water run in my house. We can't take water for granted because the rain can only cover so much of it that we use. We need to start using our water carefully because 70% of the earth is water, out of the 70% 97% is salt water, 2% is frozen water, 0.97% is ground water and only 3% is surface water. That is something that shocked me the most the fact we have so much water in the world but such a low percentage for so many people in the world.
ReplyDeleteThis week I learned that 70 percent of earth is made of water 97 percent of the water is salt water, 2 percent is made up of polar ice and 0.97 percent is ground water and 0.03 is surface water. I really wasn't so suprise to see that the earth was 97 percent of salt water because I know that all the oceans are mostly salt water. This week we have recorded data that really wasnt suprising. The data to me wasn't suprising because i noticed that females waste more water then males. Girls waste more water then males because they leave the water running while they wash there hair. I found it suprising when Mr.Fox told us that after every minute that passes we waste six gallons of water. All of us should be more efficient when we use water. For example when we use the bathroom we should turn the water off and on or just got a bucket and fill it up and use the water inside. As a result we should start recording how much water we waste a week and as each week passes we should use less and less gallons of water. As a result recording the amount of water we waste is a helpful resource so that we know that we shouldnt be wasting so much water.
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Before this activity I never thought about how much water I ever used or how I miss use water.Its surprising how everybody in every grade had the most gallons of water used in a week. I believe we need to use some of the new methods we made up in class to use less water like the shamwaow method. After collecting this data I really believe that we are using the water from today for tomorrow because most of us used up 2,000 gallons of water per week.The day we run out of water would be the end of all living things because water is essential for every living thing. Personally ill try to use the military shower but when I brush my teeth because most of us leave the water running unnecessarily.
ReplyDeleteThis week we learned bout how much of how the earth is water, how much is fresh water, and the percentages of different type of water. The earth might be 70% water but only 3% is fresh water, but all the water humans’ use is fresh water. We then found out an estimate of the amount of water we each use each week and on a daily bases and put in on a chart. The data told us the amount of water we use during each activity we do that involves water from washing your face to washing your car. From the personal data we collected we made charts for each classes that told us the amount of water we use during each activity we do that involves water from washing your face to washing your car. From the data we collected from all three classes we able to see patterns about our water use. We were able to see that our class on average uses 1731 per week and 243 daily. From the charts we did in class we can predict women tend to use more water than men. We also learned that most people use the most water when they are taking a shower. From learning this we tried to make a procedure for the shower we thought would be the most sustainable. Most of the student procedure consisted of turn on the water then turning in of in order to apply soap, shampoo and other things used to wash yourself, then to turn it back on to rinse. This was in order to see the limited amount of water that we do have and how we human use so much on a daily bases. We were also watching a video about the importance of freshwater to other organisms other than ourselves.
ReplyDeleteOf all the things we did in class this week calculating our water usage was the most interesting to me. It was interesting because I never considered the amount of water I used in the most basic things of my everyday life. For example, I had no idea that for every 10 seconds you are in the shower you are already consuming a gallon of water. That’s already 6 gallons in a minute without you even noticing you just dropped 6 gallons of water on your body. Think about all the people in your building using that much water at a time, the people in your community, the entire city! That is an unbelievable amount of water! What we learned from calculating our water usage made me want to be more focused and more cautious about the resources I put to use, even something as basic as water. Water may seem basic to us because we see it all the time but it is very precious in many parts of the world that are very dry and that are in need of water. These places having so little, yet our communities having such high amounts is hard to believe.
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This week we learned that of the 100% of Earth’s water only 3% is fresh water while the other 97% is sea water. Now of that 3%, 2% is frozen or glacier and only 1% we can drink. That 1% percent water comes from .97% ground water and .03% surface water. Also this week during class we calculated how much water we spent on a weekly basis and compared it to how much New York City wastes.
ReplyDeleteI found out that by myself I waste 1744.5 gallons of water per week and average around 249 a day. I also noticed on the data collected that the area I waste the most water on is when I take a shower. I waste 1098 gallons of water alone per week which is more than half of what I spent all week. We also spent time in class creating a method for conserving water during a shower since that was where everybody spent most of their water on. My group’s strategy was based on a 5 minute military style system. You would take a minute to wet yourself, then turn off the water and clean your body with soap then shampoo your hair which would take about 3 minutes then 1 minute to rinse of everything. One thing that I found fascinating was that we humans rely on the lowest source of water in the world and yet we consume it like there are infinite amounts of it for everyone. People need to realize that whatever we spent must have time to re grow and then be able to use again especially for a source so rare that has to support billions of people. We also started to look at waters journey from the very beginning and making its way to the animals and land that need it as a resource.
Reflecting of this week’s classes has made me realize that I don’t conserve much water and need to start making sure I don’t waste water just because it’s fun or refreshing when there is no use for it. Today many animals and locations are suffering because of human’s interaction with water. We need to create a system as a whole nation, no as people to make sure that what we are using can be replaced, because if not there won’t be much of us hydrated in about 50 years when most fresh water is gone.
This week we calculated how many gallons of water we used in a day and in a week. In a day I used 240 gallons, I estimated that I would use about 1,000 gallons a day because I take long showers, I clean my turtle and fish tanks everyday and water is in everything I drink. In a week I use about 1,683 gallons of water. That didn't really surprise me because I thought I used that much water in one day. A gallon isn't really that much when tour talking about just one gallon of water in your fridge but when your talking about hundreds and thousands of gallons of water it becomes a lot. It also didn't surprise me that the girls used more water than boys because even though boys have more body parts, girls have more hair and it takes a longer process than boys to wash their hair. When talking about how much water we used, I thought back to the summer and remembered how there was a fire hydrant open on almost every block. The water from a fire hydrant comes out really fast and a lot comes out at a time. I wonder if more water comes out of a fire hydrant in a minute than I use in a week. On Friday night I tried to take a shower in under 10 minutes but I found it really annoying to keep turning the water on and off. I guess I'm just going to be someone who wastes water, it's nothing to be proud of but I'll just have to find other ways to use less water.
ReplyDeleteKendra Mercer, 6th Period.
One has never realized how much water they use in a day and even perhaps a whole week. People from the world who live in areas that have easy access to water take it for granted especially us from New York City. Water surrounds us everywhere; the Earth is made up of 70% of water while the 3% of the water is fresh and acceptable to drink. We use an immense amount of water for unnecessary things, while there are other people from other parts of the world who do not have any water. We are lucky to live in an area where fresh water comes to use from various places like watersheds, catskill mountains, and the Hudson River valley region. We need to control our water wasting habits because one day there won’t be any left. From the class activity I looked over my class data also the other classes and individuals and I realized that we use a large amount of water for no necessary reason. On average most people use the most water when taking a shower. I was really shocked by the results of the water use activity. I approximately use 1,233 gallons per week and on average per day 176 gallons. Those numbers are not acceptable as well for no others. I have to try to be more sustainable and keep my environment long-term as well for the others. It is hard to accept that we humans of 3 million use 410,000 million gallons of water per day.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I barely paid attention to the amount of water I used a day, let alone per week. I did know that by letting the water run, I was wasting water but I never knew how much I was wasting. When I found out we were going to calculate how many gallons of water we used per week and every day, I was very excited and interested. I really wondered whether I used too much-I hoped I didn't. I found it hard to fill out the water calculator we used in class since it wasn't like I kept a journal of every single time I washed my hands or how long I lasted in the shower. Using water was in my routine and it was second nature so I never bothered to check how much water I used. I thought it would be great to find out how much I used. Turns out, I use 117 gallons per day and 819 gallons per week. I have to admit that's it more than I thought I used but at least it's not in the thousands. But still, I know I can use even less water than that. I was very surprised when I saw people with water usage up to more than 3,000 per week in my class. I was very interested to see that period 6 had the least a amount of water use compared to the other two classes. I hadn't expected to see that. Period 2 and period 4 were 66 gallons apart with period 2 at 1731 gallons per week and period 4 at 1797 gallons per week. Then period 6 uses 482 gallons less than period 2, my class. Guess I should ask them what they do since they waste the least amount of water. The graphs made based on the water calculations of all three classes showed that females used less water than males do. We also made procedures on how to take the fastest shower which would save the most energy. The procedure my group made turned out to be pretty similar to the navy shower, only that the timing was different. We agreed that one would get in the shower then turn on the water and soak yourself completely before turning it off. Then you lather yourself up with soap. Afterward, you turn off the water and rinse off the water. It was supposed to last 5-6 minutes using 30-36 gallons of water. I can't believe they can manage to take a good shower in about 2 minutes. I seriously thought my shower time was short but apparently not.
ReplyDeleteThe other water calculator on National Geographic was pretty interesting. I definitely did not know water was used for meat like beef, poultry, and pork. That really did surprise me. There are so many things that use water that I had no clue about, it was astounding. But it also made me a little sad because apparently I actually use more water than what the water calculator in class said. The calculator from class says I use 117 gallons per day while the one online says I use 1,822 gallons per day. Unfortunately, I'm in the thousands-previously the thing comforting but now it's the thing that worries me. On the plus side though, according to the online calculator, I use less water than the average American uses which is 2,088 gallons per day. That made me really happy. I feel that the online water calculator on National Geographic is more accurate than the water calculator from class since it actually counts the hidden water you use like the water used in airplane transportation. I honestly did not know that you used water when you travel. I think the most accurate calculator would be the water calculator from class and the online calculator only because the online calculator doesn't count when you wash your hands or how many times you flush. I think those factors should play into how much water you use everyday in order to be completely accurate. The two calculators were pretty different from each other-except when it asked you about things like how long you take in the shower. As a whole, I really liked all the activities we did since it broadened my view on water use and it made me realize that I really can help to save water for the entire world-even if it's just not letting the water run.
This experiance made a great impat on my life. I notice how much water was being wasted and how we haev very little of it. In my eyes i thought i only used not that many gallons maybe like 25 to 30, but after calculating everything I do in a day, I use almost 200 gallons of water each day. The most littlest change can lead a dramastic decrease in water usage. for example if i was to cut down in showering from 20 mins everyday to 10 i'll use atleast 50 gallons less. This helped me realize how important water can be especially if its being misused like that fountain in las Vegas ; were instead of using ocean water their using clean water.
ReplyDeleteThroughout this week we mainly focused on water. We learned that Earth consist of 97 percent of water and is distributed into various different parts such as salt water, polar ice caps/ glaciers, ground water and surface water. Also 1 percent out of that 97 percent is the water that we are able to use. We did an activity in which we had to calculate our water usage. This activity shows that I use approximately 1,590 gallons of water by taking a shower. I think this is possible because I take really long showers most of the time and I waste an abundant amount when I wash my hair. According to this data, in a week I use about 2,417 gallons of water and about 345 gallons per day. I wasn't really shocked about the results because I know I waste a lot of water and I knew I was taking advantage of the easy access we have to water. I've never thought about the harm I was doing. Furthermore, our class also compared our average daily water usage by the females records and the males. The females used about twice more gallons of water compare to the males. This might be, because us girls use more water than boys by doing chores and cook our meals. Most boys don't do that and they have others do it for them. Also us girls have longer hair which leads to us lasting a longer time in the shower.
ReplyDeleteThis experience made me realize that it's time for me to be sustainable about my water usage. Us humans are using tomorrow's water for today's benefits. We are using more water than what mother nature can produce. In class, since all of us use more gallons of water in the shower, we did a procedure for sustainable showering. My groups procedure led to a shower last about 7 minutes and using about 30 gallons of water. We came up with being sustainable about our water usage by turning off the water when we're scrubbing ourselves with the soap.
Indeed, these activities were really helpful in realizing how many gallons of water we use. Most of us, take water for granted and don't realize or think about how we're harming the earth and how Africans, for example, barely even have water. These activities made me more of a sustainable person because I am now starting to close the faucet when I brush my teeth, take less time showering and when washing dishes actually turning off the faucet when scrubbing the dishes with soap. Being sustainable will help the Earth by not using all of the water it produces and running out of water one day.
This experience made me think differently in how I can save water for the future. It helped me understand that water is a very important asset for the earth. I never knew that we had such a little amount of fresh water to drink and more salt water on earth. While watching the documentary on Friday I was surprised about all the animals that can live in fresh water and spawn in it too. It was interesting learning about how water can be saved and how much water there is in the world that people can use sufficiently.
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Kenneth rufino
This week we learned about water. Specifically, all the water that is on this planet and how we humans tend to overuse fresh water resources. About 71% of the planet is covered in water. We also learned that most of this water is ocean water, approximately 97% of it. Only about 2% of all this water is actually freshwater. During our lessons, we also calculated how much gallons of water we individually use daily and weekly and compared that to the average American water usage. I calculated that I use about 1,030 gallons of water per week and 147 gallons of water per day. According to National Geographic, the average American uses over 2,000 gallons per day. Upon finding this out, I concluded that my original calculations were wrong and I calculated my water usage through the Water Footprint Calculator on the National Geographic site. According to this, I use 1,565 gallons of water per day. This is about 500 gallons less than the average American, which I suppose makes me a bit more sustainable than the average American. Even though this may be the case, I still learned a lot about water usage, the effects of over using and how to be more sustainable and I plan to apply these new skills of mine to the test and will try to decrease my water usage by a couple more gallons.
ReplyDeleteThis week in our environmental class we learned how humans are one day going to use up all the water in the world if we don't learn how to conserve water.In class we calculated how much gallons of water we use in one day and in one week per student and per class.I learn that I use about 174 gallons a day mostly when I take a shower.In a week I use about 1,221 gallons.One interesting fact I realized that a low flow shower head cuts the use of water per min about 2/3rd s. So instead of using 930 gallons a week i can use 310 gallons witch over time can make a huge difference as well as a low flow toilet.I think it would be a good idea if America would create a program that help give out low flow shower heads and low flow toilets in each house or at least a good portion of them can make a great difference in this world.We also came up with these ways we can reduce the usage of water in our showers and my group came up with the idea of using a water of bucket so we won't overuse the world in the world.
ReplyDeleteDuring this week in class i learned how to save water and a lot about the scarcity of fresh water on Earth and how i and other been using it as waste an example is when i brush my teeth i leave the water running for about 2 to 3 minutes. Another one it when you wash the dishes that can be up to 330 gallons of water wasted. In many other country they dont have fresh water unlike us that live in a area that support us with water around the city of NYC
DeleteELLISON LUGO
This may or may not be the first time I have used something like a water calculator to calculate the amount of water I used in my daily life. My memory is kind of foggy so I don’t know for certain. But that’s beside the point; I was actually very surprised about the number of gallons I was using for several reasons. One reason was because I didn’t really know the average amount of gallons that an individual used so I didn’t know if 2,134 gallons a week was way above average because that’s how it felt like. Another reason why it was surprising was because water has always been flowing through the shower head, the kitchen sink, as well as the bathroom sink 99% of the time (sometimes no water was available because of some inspection/ reparation). Also my family lives at a place where we don’t have to pay the utilities, meaning that we don’t pay for water, electricity, or gas. Since we don’t pay the utilities we never worry about how much we were consuming (well at least my parents weren’t and that feeling just grew on me). Should we actually be required to pay the utilities, then things would be a little different. But overall using something like a water calculator is something everyone should use to monitor the amount of water they are using. Like Mr. Fox said, we are using up water faster than it can be renewed. We should all take it upon ourselves to reduce our intake. The most common thing we use water for is to take a shower or bath. If this is the case then all we have to do is reduce the amount of water we use during this cleansing activity. It doesn’t really matter how long we take in the shower, just how long we keep the water running. When brushing your teeth people say to turn off the faucet when you’re not using it. I believe that the same thing should be done when taking a shower. This will definitely cut down the amount of gallons each individual is using and create a huge decrease in the amount of water the public is using. I love to take an hour long hot shower as much as the next person but everyone needs to make sacrifices.
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