The first Action project of the year is in my water class, and our job was to create a poster to display our water use and compare it with other countries. Our Action Project this Unit is to take information about our daily water use compared to an average American’s daily water usage and another country. It was also meant to spread awareness about how much water people waste every day, and encourage people to save water.
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| IF(2016)The Drain on Water |
First I, found the total amount of water that I use every day which turns out to be 32 gallons per day. 32 gallons is a lot of water to carry home, especially when your house is 1.6 miles from the nearest water source. My total gallons is much less than than your average American use, which is held up at 151 gallons per day. I find myself pretty conservative when it comes to water considering I use less than a third of an average American. I made categories like Cleaning, Hygiene, Utilities and Other. No category goes over the average person in Norway’s daily water use.
For this Action project we also had a field experience that focused on carrying water long distances. We carried 25 gallons of water for a ½ hour and walked 1752 ft. Sure it doesn’t like much, but when you try it it feels as if your leg and back are being hit with rocks. We traveled to our closest freshwater source( the Chicago River) so we could experience the difficulty of carrying your total daily water use for not even nearly as far as the distance people need to actually deal with to survive. When water isn’t accessible as we Americans have it they need to walk long distances like 16 miles everyday just to have a human right to survive. This is a real struggle especially when it comes to people who are not in a good situation financially. So I ask you, how much water would you need to carry if you had to walk to water everyday? How much water do you think you could save everyday only using the necessary amount you need to use everyday?
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