This was my first Action Project for a STEAM course at GCE called Water. The first thing we had to do before I started working on my poster was to find out my daily water usage. Then we went on our Field Experience to the Chicago river to collect water. The point of this FE was to put us into the shoes of people that live in India and make us understand the struggles people go through to get their daily water supply. After the FE was over, we got started on Action Project 1. For this project, we had to create an ad that included our personal water usage and then compare it to another country of choice. The ad had to fit on in CTA poster frame. Some of the challenging parts of the FE were carrying the water from the river back to the school and doing some of the calculations on the post-FE worksheet. I overcame these challenges by just pushing through and asking for help. One of the easier things was preparing for it and gathering materials.
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| LS, How Much do You Use? 2015. |
The personal water usage for me is 66.5 gallons. The 4 categories that I calculated are Hygiene, cleaning, consumption, and my laundry. The percentages of these categories are as follows: Hygiene - 81.2%, Cleaning - 9.02%, Consumption - 2.25%, Laundry - 7.51%. The country I’m comparing my usage to is india. The average daily usage for them is 135 liters or 35.6632 gallons. My amount just about doubles that of the average indian citizen. I use more water just by showering each day than they use all day. I also use much of my daily usage for things that people in india would want to use for consumption rather than recreational use. The amount of time it would take me to travel to lake Michigan and back to my house and carry all of my daily water usage would be 9.14 hours. This is with a one mile distance and my daily water usage would be 66.5 gallons. My calculated gal per mile gallon is 0.12 repeated.
Works Cited
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Wizspk.com,. 'Wizspk Communication & PR Agency In Mumbai'. N.p., 2015. Web. 16 Sept. 2015.
Clker.com,. 'Large Black City Skyline Clip Art'. N.p., 2015. Web. 16 Sept. 2015.
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