Sewage Suppressorz

Our group topic is about sewage pollution in Africa, Peru and the United States. All around the world sewage pollution has been affecting sea life and drinking water. Due to Africa's poor sewage system human  waste has been spilling into the water ways and is becoming more difficult to clean. Peru's Lake Titicaca is being polluted with 12 million cubic meters of sewage water dumped yearly. If we don't improve our sewage systems it will get worse.

 

Sewage Pollution

We found that sewage pollution is caused by feices from animals and us.  In the uk there is been a problem with sewage pollution.  we are still researching more and trying to find videos about the issue.  They haven't updated yet as of right now what the status is on it.

Sewage pollution

World Wide Water Waster Haters

The main problem we are working on is water wastage. Water wastage is a big problem because in first world contries peopel take water for granite and waste it often. But, in 3rd and 2nd world contries they dont have water due to other contries wasting water.

Questions:

           1.Do 2nd and 3rd World countries have little, dirty water becuase they dont have the technology, or because 1st world countries are wasting it all.

Here is a link to a Sesame street video about water wasting

Some Stats:

1. Americans now use 127 percent more water than we did in 1950.
2. About 95 percent of the water entering our homes goes down the drain.
3. Running the tap while brushing your teeth can waste 4 gallons of water.
4. Older toilets can use 3 gallons of clean water with every flush, while new toilets use as little as 1 gallon.
5. Leaky faucets that drip at the rate of one drop per second can waste up to 2,700 gallons of water each year.
6. A garden hose or sprinkler can use almost as much water in an hour as an average family of four uses in one day.
7. A water-efficient dishwasher will use as little a 4 gallons per wash cycle, whereas some older models use up to 13 gallons per cycle.
8. Some experts estimate that more than 50 percent of landscape water use goes to waste due to evaporation or runoff caused by over-watering.
9. Many people in the world exist on 3 gallons of water per day or less. We can use that amount in one flush of the toilet.
10. Over a quarter of all the clean, drinkable water you use in your home is used to flush the toilets.         1. Humans use more and more water each year.
11. 2. Americans use five times the amount of water that Europeans use.
    
    3. Humans daily use about 190 litres (50 gallons) of water.
    
    4. A person pays about 25 cents for water use on a daily basis.
    
    5. Two thirds of the water used in a home is used in the bathroom.
    
    6. To flush a toilet we use 7.5 to 26.5 litres (2 to 7 gallons) of water.
    
    7. In a five-minute shower we use 95 to 190 litres (25 to 50 gallons) of water.
    
    8. To brush your teeth you use 7.5 litres (2 gallons) of water.
    
    9. For an automatic dishwasher 35 to 45 litres (9 to 12 gallons) of water is used.
    
    10. Saving a bottle of cold water in the fridge is better that taking it from the tap, because it saves time and water.
    
    11. While brushing your teeth, instead of leaving the tap running, you should fill up a glass to rinse your mouth.
    
    12. Baths use less water than a typical shower. Soaking in a partially filled tub will use less water than a short shower.
    
    13. The average person spends less than 1 % of his or her total personal expenditure dollars for water, wastewater, and water disposal services.
    
    14. Less than 1% of the water treated by public water systems is used for drinking and cooking.
    
    15. Bottled water can be up to 1000 times more expensive than tap water and it may not be as safe.
    
    16. Today, at least 400 million people live in regions with severe water shortages.
    
    
    Read more: About water wasting at this link

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Group Question:

How are we losing our water so fast and quickly when we have so much it?

Two Companies: Moen,

Water use it wisley.com

Supermen Oil Spill Team

Our group project is on oil spills in the gulf of Mexico, Alaska, and China. We are concerned about the amount of oil produced around the globe, and from time to time the spills that occur when an oil rig blows. Just recently, the BP Spill let at least 185 gallons of oil into the ocean. Along with the China and Alaska oil spills, the amount of oil spilled in just 3 spills was over 5,160,000 barrels of oil! There's so much oil in our oceans after all of the spills in history, we want to find out how to stop it.

4 Debris

we have found out that marine debris is techniullay littering but in the ocean and it means that when ships reck or just drop stuff over board all the sluppies or thing are called debri.

         

in these cases it makes many diffrent situations.
Marine Debris is a very active discovery...

They Need Water

They Need Water is one of our groups focusing water scarsity in Africa, Asia, and Austraila. These three places all have one thing in common even though they are in very different places. They have very little water for everything and everyone. Water is vatal to live, and the fact they have no water is trapping them in a constant cycle of underdevelopment. These places have 2ed and 3rd world countries.

Some Stats:

• 1 BILLION people go without water every day
• 1 child dies every 15 seconds because of this issue
• 25% of kids die because of the dirty water they must drink
• AIDS and HIV infected die quicker because water is necessary to them to live
• More infants die then necessary because boiling doesn't get all the desises out
• Perth, Austraila has had a 21% decrese in rainfall over the last 10 years, stream flow has decreased by 65%
• Population increases by 3% per year, and 750+ famlies move to Austraila a week
• Asia can't keep up with the rice demands because of water scarsity

More to come later

Stop the Stink

Were focusing on sewage pollution as our topic in places around the globe

        The problem is that untreated sewage is being dumped into our water places




http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23sewer.html