2. In what hemisphere and in what continent is your country located? What is the latitude and longitude of your capital city?
Ans. India is located in Asia in the northern hemisphere. New Delhi is the capital of India and is located in 28.6100° N, 77.2300° E.
3a. What percentage (%) of your country’s population has access to safe drinking water?
Ans. An estimated of 70-89% of people in India have access to safe drinking water.
3b. How does your country compare to Australia?
Ans. Australia have 30- 11% of more people with safe drinking water compared to India.
4. Find out your country’s water use per person per day. How does this compare to Australia?
Ans. An average person living in India can use up to 1603 litres of water per day. In Australia an average person can use up to 493
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India produces: 1. Rice
2. Wheat
3. Beef
4. Mangoes
5. Banana
6. Cotton
7d. Choose two of these products and research how much virtual water is used to produce them.
Ans. Amount of virtual water used in producing is: Cotton: 22,500 litres of water/kg Beef: 155 litres of water/kg
7e. What is your country’s water footprint?
Ans. India’s water footprint is 980 cubic meters/person.
8. Research any problems your country has regarding water.
Ans. Once upon a time there was a girl. She was very poor and she lived in New Delhi, India. She had a small house which was very crowded and it didn’t have clean water. Right after the main door of her house was a drain and in the drain were small insects.
One day she forgot to put a cap on the big bucket which was filled with water. The next there were small black dot floating in the water. She took it to the bathroom and took a bath with that water and after that she got very sick.
After 3 days, when she went to the doctor her family found out that she has malaria. Sadly her family didn’t had money to treat her and after 1 month that girl died. More than 38 million people die of waterborne disease and amongst that 75% are
3 Litres of water a day for the average human male for female 2.2 litres.
From the Water Sydney website, I found that each person uses 297 litres of water each day and 1.4 billion litres a day are provided to homes! This water can be contributed to long showers being a factor and also drinking, cooking, washing up etc. Within Warragamba Dam, I discovered that the annual rate of rainfall is 840 millimetres and currently it has a 92.5% dam level. Within the primary and secondary sources I can see that there is more linking evidence, rather than conflicting. This could possibly be due to the audience I surveyed, being already educated about the dam, yet the water usage knowledge was the same as any aged person found in my secondary research. Therefore I can assume that after researching both sources and collecting evidence, that primary and secondary link together to show that Sydney uses more water than necessary and as a city, we need to come up with a solution to stop this excessive
Main Point: Third world countries lack accessibility to clean water exposing them to disease and harmful toxins that result in 2.4 million deaths annually (Bartram, 2010).
Water, like food, is a necessity for human life that is used for many purposes such as agricultural, industrial, and domestic systems. While water is a common element around the world not all of it is clean and able to be consumed or used by humans. With only a percentage of the world’s water being clean and the use of water increasing, the availability of water around the world has become a common issue in the developing and even the developed world. This may be a smaller problem in areas close to clean water sources compared to areas far from a clean water source but, the availability of water is not strictly based on location, it also depends on the specific political and social needs and issues of the area as well. These all become issues that must be accounted for when deciphering whether water is a basic human right or a commodity and what action must be taken to aid the developing water systems in community’s that lack them.
Australia has a big agricultural industry so many people live in rural areas where there are no pipes connected to the houses there. An alternative to find water is through rainwater tanks, storm water harvesting and farm dams. It would take longer for the water to come than
On and around the Gold Coast there live about 556.000 people and every year the population of Australia grows of about 2.6% per annum, so that means about 1.79 million more residents each year. All these people need to be provided with water supplies and according to SEQ Water in 2015 one person on the Gold Coast consumed 170 litres every day and as the population and so also the water consumption grows and grows there is need of more water supplies like a dam, a desalination plant. But
There is a water crisis which faces many parts of the world and it is a threat to survival of human beings since humans are primarily dependent on water. Shortage in drinking water is beginning to show its effects in first world countries, but is a current major problem facing lesser developed countries which have not taken drastic steps to harvest water and purify it to make it safe for human consumption. In developed countries the population growth has strained available water resources and stretched the ability of governments and private firms to provide safe drinking water to the vast majority of the population. Seventy one percent of
First of all it is necessary to define what the term “water shortage” means. For some people, it means having to constantly traverse long distances just to reach a source of fresh water and to collect it. For others, water shortage means to content themselves with water only for a part of day. And finally, there are some regions in which people suffer from droughts that lead to a great amount of deaths. Therefore, in modern world problem with deficiency in fresh water has become burning question, which needed immediate solution.
More than two billion people worldwide live in regions facing water scarcity[2] and in India this is a particularly acute crisis. Millions of Indians currently lack access to clean drinking water, and the situation is only getting worse. India’s demand for water is growing at an alarming rate. India currently has the world’s second largest population, which is expected to overtake
* From 1996 – 2006 +/- 1.56 billion people gained access to improved drinking-water sources.
The main cause for concern is that India’s flourishing agricultural industry uses the 91% of water throughout the country leaving aquifers at lower levels every year.
The Figure 2 presents the quantity of water is consumed by international students every day. In general, these students drank less water in Australia than they did in their own countries. There were 10% and 24% of the sample drank more than 2 liters per day when they were in Australia and their own countries respectively. However, there were
This study seeks to address the factors affecting project implementation in an organization with a focus on a non-governmental organisation. The process of project implementation, involving the successful development and introduction of projects in the organization, presents an ongoing challenge for managers. The study notes that there are many nongovernmental organizations that run similar programmes and this makes it difficult to realize the full intensions of a given project. The objectives of the study are; to establish the effect of resources management,
But in recent studies it has shown that in some communities in Australia struggle to meet water standards. (Schwarzenbach et al., 2010) has recently shown that drinking water in some parts of Australia has shown to be contaminated with uranium, faecal bacteria and nitrates. (Schwarzenbach, R., Egli, T., Hofstetter, T., Von Gunten, U., & Wehrli, B. (2010).Meaning those who don 't have access to clean water in Australia will likely become sick or catch a disease affecting not only their growth but a child growth as well. Water is important to the human body. As we not only depend on it to live it helps our cells to function properly. Not having clean water can hinder our development but can affect our organs as well.As that being said low income communities in Australia will most likely have less access to clean water as opposed to those who are of high income. (Health, J., & Kim. (2004) found that air pollution can cause chronic effects on the development of a child that can lead to many illnesses like asthma and bronchitis as a result of living in high-ozone country meaning high pollutant than those who live in a low-ozone country.Committee on Environmental Health, J., & Kim. (2004). In Australia, food security is considered to be an important social determinant of health and a significant public health issue at national and state levels. Food insecurity is, however, especially important to child and family
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