1. Using your water log (and average water use from the days you logged), calculate what your average water use per year might be.
17,622.35l
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?
347 cubic meters It didn't really surprise me because the average american uses a lot of water so it didn't surprise me.
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? Number 2 was greater. Hidden water usage can impact it a lot because we have no idea how many gallons are used to help keep us alive. Most of us don't think of it but we should. It could be intresting to see how much the whole thing put together could be. 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) 1393 896 1381 2049 702 1097 1875 1545 980 1317 2332 1153 1303 1441 1223 1218 1858 931 2223 1245 2483 Global Average 1243 4. How does your water footprint compare with the average footprint of the It compares a lot smaller because I am a kid and don't use as much. 5.How does the average We waste the most because a lot of people don't care. We also can accses it a lot easier. People in other countries have to work to get the water. All we have to do is go to our bathroom and turn a nob. 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? We play an important role because we need to depend on the water but We also pollute the water.
