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H.W. Questions/Water Mini Semester/ due 6-9-08

1.Using your water log (and average water use from the days you logged), calculate what your average water use per year might be. 

                        341.452 liters

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 is .341452 cubic meters. I am not surprised because there is a lot of water in the world and if the water cycle keeps going, we won't have to worry much

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?

 My estimate of water use for me oly in a yeear is about 100,000,000,000,000 liters of water. I hope that is right, and I am kind of surprised because the water was only was used by me, and half of it used for waste, making it wastewater.

4.How does your water footprint compare with the average footprint of the USA?  Why do you think this is so?

 The whole USA used more water than me in a day, but that is because there are multiple people.

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?  

 That the USA has way more water because of the whealth. All the other "poor" countries have less water so a smaller population.

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?

 Well the more water we use the water, even the wastewater, we are not wasteing water because the wate cycle requiers us to use the water for it to get to the next stage of the cycle and we don't "lose" water. I am really shocked that our waste water turns to our drinking water. Unbelievable!!!!!!!

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