1. Using your water log (and average water use from the days you logged), calculate what your average water use per year might be.
My average water use per year might be about 17,000 cubic meters. So 17,000,000 liters a year. I got this by adding up all the cubic meters I use a day, then I multiply it by the number of days. Allowing time to play in water, eating, and things like so.
2. What is your estimated water footprint as found using the water calculator on www.waterfootprint.org? (Express in both cubic meters per year and liters per year) Does this surprise you in any way? Why?
It was 7,756 cubic meters a year. So, I don't because I can and don't use a lot of water. So it can vary. So I use 7,756,000 liters a year. It can vary since I sometimes play a lot in the water, and when it is hot, I like to cool down. Unlike the winter, I will want to in warm clothes and stay inside away from water since it will make me so cold.
3. Think about your average per year from #1 and your estimated water footprint from #2. Which one is greater? Why? How big an impact does “hidden” water use seem to have on your overall water use?
The estimate one was higher, because I estimated so much more. The hidden water really has an effect because its not really "included" and so it lowers it. The "hidden" water use uses a lot of water. The food you eat, was grown by water. The amount of water that an animal had while living, plus the food that the animal that the animal had was grown by water as well. So that adds up to more than expected.
Use the figures in the table below to help answer questions 4 and 5.
Country | Estimated water footprint per person per year (in cubic meters per person per year) |
Australia | 1393 |
Bangladesh | 896 |
Brazil | 1381 |
Canada | 2049 |
China | 702 |
Egypt | 1097 |
France | 1875 |
Germany | 1545 |
India | 980 |
Indonesia | 1317 |
Italy | 2332 |
Japan | 1153 |
Jordan | 1303 |
Mexico | 1441 |
Netherlands | 1223 |
Pakistan | 1218 |
Russia | 1858 |
South Africa | 931 |
Thailand | 2223 |
United Kingdom | 1245 |
USA | 2483 |
Global Average | 1243 |
4. How does your water footprint compare with the average footprint of the USA? Why do you think this is so?
The USA uses pipes and aqueducts to distrute water to one place. Then there, there would be pipes that go to people's pipes and you don't have to pay. Unlike in the earlier days, there was so little fresh water you had to pay to get a bucket or two of some.
5.How does the average USA water footprint per person compare with that of other countries around the world? Why do you think such differences exist?
The USA takes the majority of the fresh water and gives it to their people. But in places like Africa, there aren't many bodies of water, let alone good fresh water, that isn't contaminated.
6. How does your water footprint - and that of every human on earth - play a role in the water cycle? What positive or negative Biosphere <-> Hydrosphere connections might be created by our individual water footprints?
Everyones water foot print plays a role in the water cycle because it uses a lot of water, that can be evaporated into the air to keep it moving. Also, they take a lot of water from it that lessens the amount of water to be evaporated. But, in a way we keep it going by taking and relesasing water. So we are a positvie influence. But in a way it is negative, since we need the fresh water, we create dams and such so we destroy nature.