Waterwise Homework Project - Jade
- 1. Being Water Wise By Jade Howgate
- 2. 60% of Perth's water is groundwater from underground aquifers. Superficial aquifers hold water quite close to the surface to supply the roots of trees and plants with water. The Leederville aquifer holds water further down. Beyond this is the Yarragadee aquifer, Perth households use an average of 276 although, the water kilolitres of water a year - double that of corporation is the main user Melbourne and Brisbane. of this aquifer. This aquifer is hundreds of metres below ground level, and holds more than 1000 cubic kilometres of water.
- 3. Readings Week 1 6/08/2012 morning 5093459 afternoon 5093550 Consumption from evening 5093873 night until morning 176 Water 7/08/2012 morning 5094049 afternoon 5094285 evening 5094603 216 8/08/2012 morn after even 5094819 5095038 5095337 Readings 184 9/08/2012 morn 5095521 after 5095721 even 5096027 331 10/08/2012 morn 5096358 after 5096521 even 5096807 260 11/08/2012 morn 5097067 after 5097328 even 5097753 210 12/08/2012 morn 5097963 after 5098161 even 5098479
- 4. week 2 16/08/2012 morning Readings 5100511 Consumption from afternoon 5100720 night until morning Week 2 evening 5100870 175 17/08/2012 morning 5101184 afternoon 5101218 evening 18/08/2012 morning 5101532 5101739 207 Water Readings afternoon 5101834 evening 5102278 184 19/08/2012 morning 5102462 afternoon 5102681 evening 5102821 212 20/08/2012 morning 5103033 afternoon 5103276 evening 5103291 143 21/08/2012 morning 5103434 afternoon 5103684 evening 5103832 213 22/08/2012 morning 5104045 afternoon 5104280 evening 5104312
- 5. Action Plan! As a family, we decided that we would aim to reduce our water usage by at least 10% . I think we can achieve this and follow our action plan . We decided our action plan was going to be; Turn off all taps when they are not in use Have shorter showers Always use water efficient setting on dishwasher and washing machine. We decided we wanted to focus on cutting down our water usage during the evening because this is when we use the most water.
- 6. week 3 Readings 1/09/2012 morning 5115349 Consumption from afternoon evening 5115529 5115612 night until morning 212 Week 3 Water 2/09/2012 morning 5115824 afternoon 5115943 evening 5116023 264 3/09/2012 morning afternoon evening 5116287 5116423 5116597 Readings 158 4/09/2012 morning 5116755 afternoon 5116898 evening 5117020 179 5/09/2012 morning 5117199 afternoon 5117278 evening 5117345 132 6/09/2012 morning 5117477 afternoon 5117591 evening 5117714 183 7/09/2012 morning 5117897 afternoon 5117921 evening 5118073
- 7. Our families average daily consumption 188 L 209 L I didn’t have to change my action plan, although, we had new grass laid mid way through my water metre readings, and it had to be watered regularly so this added to our water usage. “it was interesting to see how much water we On average, our family used 9% used and I was surprised at how much we did less water per day. use! And the action plan was good to do because then we could see how much we were saving” I think our action plan went well, we were just short of our target of saving 10% each day. We put a timer in the shower and all remembered to turn the taps off.
- 8. 3.4 million people die each year from water related illnesses That almost the entire city of Los Angeles 1 billion people have no access to clean water 5’000 children and babies die each day from water related illnesses Every 19 seconds, a mother loses a baby due to a water related illness http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=BCHhwxvQqxg&feature=player_embe dded
- 9. Although this project is over, I have learnt a lot about how different people use water, and how some of us may take our accessibility and standard of water for granted. As a family we will continue to save water and understand the luxury of clean water.