...Wasting water is an everyday issue in the United States. For example 1.7 trillion gallons of water are wasted each year, just in the United States. Their is many different reasons on how water can be wasted. Some ways water can be wasted are by irrigation, pipe leakages, and high usages of water in homes. Irrigation Really helps out, but at the same time there is lots of water being wasted throughout the process. From Ceres, it states “About 21% of water that’s used to grow our food is wasted.”That is a lot of water being wasted. Especially because, if the food grown from irrigation is being wasted, that means water is being wasted as well. For example from ceres is states”13 gallons of water can be wasted by just letting two tomatoes rot.” Imagine if every year each person wasted around 20 to 30 tomatoes. That is a lot of water being wasted and it can stack up too depending on the other vegetables and fruits are wasted....
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...Flight from Conversation,” She states, “If we are unable to be alone, we are more likely to be lonely.” I agree completely with her statement because I, myself see this on a daily basis with family. I think it’s a very powerful and eye opening statement. What I read in this article was that people would rather be alone with their devices than be alone with themselves or others. After reading this article, I decided to observe my family for the day and see how much technology has consumed our lives. I woke the next morning to find myself going right to my phone, not to check the time, but to see if anyone text me or called me through the night. I then proceed to check social media and see what I may have missed. At this point I’ve probably wasted 10 minutes of my morning on checking things that really didn’t matter, instead of getting things prepared for the day. I see the same pattern for my kids. Once they’re awaken, its right to their tablets to see if anyone may have attacked them on a game they were playing the night before. It’s a constant battle of me repeatedly telling them to put their tablets down and get dressed. There’s rarely a “good morning, how did you sleep?” Just faces down, buried in their devices. I see it with my husband and I as well. I can be in a room on the other side of the house, instead of coming in the room to ask me something or just to tell me about his day, he will text me what’s on his mind. When I ask him why he didn’t just come in and tell me face...
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...Life after Death I remember the day just like it was yesterday, the pale color and coldness of her skin. The sky was clear blue, soft, with a touch of red, and the trees seemed stiff in their bright green shade. The wind was blowing with its humid dry air. And All I could do was stand silently in disbelief, caught up in my own thoughts and calm as I ever been. Wondering what I could have done differently to change the course of time, life had taken us upon. Since that very day a chunk of my heart was ripped away, and broken into pieces… “Oh how I miss her so much.” It was the morning of October 24, 2010 when I first received the news. I had just come back from a trip to Orlando’s Halloween horror nights, where I had an amazing time and just in a matter of minutes my whole world had turned upside down. That very moment I could feel my face turned bright red with anger and tears started flowing uncontrollably down my chubby cheeks, as my mother gave away the news that my grandmother was on her death bed. I couldn’t believe how just the day before she sounded so perfectly fine, and today she can possibly be gone. I guess when it’s time to go, it’s time to go you really don’t get a choice when it comes to your own life’s destination. I immediately rushed to the hospital speeding to about 70 miles per hour, hoping I wouldn’t get a ticket. As I got closer I could feel my chest tightening as if somebody was squeezing it with their bare hands. The hospital’s smell seemed familiar prior...
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...REP RI N TED F ROM To subscribe: www.emc.com/on | issue NO. 1, 200 9 Reprinted with permission from ON magazine. Copyright © 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. adversity happens. it happened to me, and some form of adversity will happen to you. do you have the strength and will to bounce back? iN search Of by glenn e. mangurian resilieNt leaders 22 ON Number 1, 2009 illustratiON by hadley hOOper On May 26, 2001, i suffered an unprovoked disk rupture that pressed against my spinal cord, leaving the lower half of my body permanently paralyzed. at the prime of my life as a successful business executive and father, it was the last thing i ever expected. since then, i’ve come to realize it’s very likely that we will each experience some form of adversity: a career crisis, financial disaster, devastating relationship breakup, or frightening diagnosis. in business, we are trained to examine various scenarios and prepare responses in advance, but life-altering experiences like these are not something we can anticipate. Who has a contingency plan for living life from a wheelchair? for me, becoming paralyzed is, without question, the worst thing that has ever happened. at the same time, the experience has allowed me to come back, not just changed but stronger. i’ve learned that our innate ability to survive and adapt is greater than we imagine. resilience is one of the key qualities desired in business leaders today, but many people confuse it with toughness...
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...Nourah Mohammed H00154507 CBL Final Report LSN2433 Ecology Instructor: Maha Ebeid Nourah Mohammed H00154507 CBL Final Report LSN2433 Ecology Instructor: Maha Ebeid Introduction: I chose water to talk about it and I think its important to be focs in water issue becouse water is one of the essential needs to humans, and also water equals our life, if the life without water the humans will die, also its important for animals and all living things. Solution My solution is reduce the proplem of water wasatge by reduce the amount of water used in homes in my opinion, if each home start to reduce the amount of water they use community will be aware of how harmful this issue, waterwastage level will start to decrease in our country and we will find great soluation for this issuse. In my home I see a huge amount of water wasted in showering, cleaning home, clothes, cleaning car and irrigation for Agriculture . Before I start applying my solation I calculate water waste to comparte later after appling soluation, I look to the most a ctivities that me and my family waste a lot of water in it and try to a ware my family member about it, I hope by three weeks my family will reduce the amount of water they use and they will be aware about water consume. I created a table for my family to let them write how many minutes they spend taking shower. Collecting Data & Information This table shows data that I collect in the first week before I start applying my solation...
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...Jeff Irwin July 21, 2011 Desalination Summary Fresh drinking water shortage is a worldwide concern that is becoming more prevalent in even the most developed of countries. There’s a whole lot of water on Earth, something like 326 million trillion (326,000,000,000,000,000,000) gallons or about 70% of Earth, but only 2% is fresh water. About 1.6% of the Earth’s water is frozen in polar ice caps and another 0.36% is contained in underground aquifers and wells. Only about 0.0036% of our planet’s water is found in lakes and rivers. The rest of the water is either floating in the air as clouds and water vapor, or is locked up in plants and animals. Saline water (brine) contains 30-50 grams of salt per liter. This concentration of salt can be toxic for the human body to consume and is responsible for many fatalities. But saline water can be made into fresh water by the process of desalination. This summary will cover a few different desalination methods and their benefits. “Among the desalination technologies, thermal desalination, including multi stage flash (MSF) and multi effect evaporation (MEE), is the current leading desalination process. Reverse osmosis (RO) is also being increasingly used.”¹ But both of these processes consume enormous amounts of precious fossil fuels and emit masses of ozone depleting greenhouse gases. Another way to desalinate saline water is by using solar power. The sun emits all of the different kinds of electromagnetic radiation, 99% of its rays are...
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...Joaquin-Sacramento Delta” McEwen commented in “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds”. He includes these studies to show his readers that the statements appear scientifically proven. McEwen includes this statement in his article to explain that the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta complicates habitats, such as the salmon, which causes problems in California. The San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta contains oceanic conditions and environmental obstacles, which kills many of the salmon. In that matter, "...Congress now will spend $88 million in the first go-around to put thousands of Valley people out of work and to force an overdraft our ground aquifer by water-thirsty farmers" McEwen incorporates in "River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds". McEwen informs his readers that California will need to spend too much money in trying to repair the water system. In addition, $88 million only covers the first round, more than one round will need to occur. The first round obtains a large amount of money, therefore if something goes wrong all that money will go to waste. McEwen provides great examples that proves that the project will gain no actual success due to many...
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...For instance, ”...the experts at UC Davis studying California’s rapidly declining salmon population…”(McEwen 1) McEwen states in “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds”. He gathers information of important and famous schools, such as UC Davis, to convince his readers’. Readers will see that McEwen researches his information about his topic and will believe what he thinks about the project. People will also see that he gathers important information from experts not just any people. In addition, “Stearns says, ‘We need more efforts to capture water- not to divert it’ “(2) McEwen also includes in “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds”. Stearns, a director of the Lyles Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, works at Fresno state and thinks that the project should not change the water but should try to save it. The project appears to change the water resources, but the sources and the drought show no connections to saving the water. McEwen includes this important person because he states an excellent point of view that will show any reader that the project lacks of importance. McEwen uses two important people to convince the reader that he obtains credibility and that the project should not...
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...important in the United States. In recent years, there have been many changes to this industry which has led to some interesting challenges. Some of these challenges include, “…new technologies, tighter environmental regulations, regulatory pressures and changing customer preferences” (Oskvig). These challenges are something that need to be overcome due to the urgency of their nature. A key challenge that needs to be addressed is the issue of energy that has been wasted due to lost electricity. The industry of electric utility needs to attempt to deal with the issue of lost energy. There is a huge amount, totaling to, “…a whopping $40 billion [that] is wasted in lost electricity, natural gas and water resources in the U.S. alone” (Pyper). Even though this amount includes natural gas and water resources, one can still see the great affect that this waste has on the electric utility industry. In order to fix this issue, there needs to be a better, more effective way for people to save this energy that is being wasted. Scientists must be able to develop a more reliable method for storing electric energy in order to be more efficient. With the saved energy, we will be able to become much more efficient and effective in electrical usage. All-in-all, the electric utility industry has a few issues that it needs to address in order to become as efficient as possible. Whether it be new technology, tighter regulations, regulatory pressures, changing customer demands, or storage capabilities...
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...WATER IS LIFE AND IS A LIVING by Remelyn D. Eborda Water is life and is a living. Nobody will argue with me when I say water is extremely important to everybody. If one will, I might say, he doesn’t brush his teeth or take a shower. He doesn’t wash his clothes, the plates, the spoon and fork and glasses after he eats and he might not be drinking water. In almost every action we take as human beings, water is involved. From the time we wake up until we drink the last drop of milk before sleeping, there is water taking part. It is impossible for human to survive without water. We can stand about a month without eating but we can only have 5 to 7 days without water. This is because we, ourselves in average, 60% water. If we do not consume enough of it which our body needs to sustain its operations, we will be dehydrated and it can cause our death. Like humans, animals and plants cannot be sustained without water. The ecosystem will no longer work the same way with just a slight variation in water cycle. There will be an imbalance that will affect the life of each living organisms within it. With all these, we can certainly say that water is life. But it is not just life. It is actually a living. According to Dutch WaterSector.com, 1.5 Billion people work in water related sectors. This is about half of the total workers in the world. And nearly all jobs depend on water. Plumbers, pipe men, engineers, construction workers, and many more individuals work in water related...
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...California Save Water,” he states that even though the state has issued the water cutback, “the most effective enforcers may be closer to home: the domestic water police.” Parents, children, co-workers, and neighbors are taking the initiative to point out when water is being wasted. According to Richtel’s article, more than 70,000 warnings for overuse of water, and more than 20,000 penalties have been issued ever since family and friends have started pointing out the problem. For people that are uncomfortable with shaming their friends and family, there are still ways to make sure the wasting of water does not go unnoticed. Technology is now helping people take a stance against water wasting offenders. Smartphone apps are making it easier to conserve water while also pointing out over consumption. Apps such as Vizsafe, and H2O Tracker allow users to upload picture evidence of water being wasted, in hopes that the problem will soon be addressed. Author of the article, “As California Thirsts, These Apps Help Save Water,” Kit Eaton explains that these apps, “encourage responsible water usage through the age-old mechanism of peer pressure.” Hopefully this method of what some may consider snitching, will alert and encourage offenders to become better informed about the...
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...minerals are removed from seawater so that it can be used safely as drinking water both for human and animal consumption. This water can also be used for irrigation or in industries. The need for desalination? Desalination is needed where there is a shortage of natural drinking water due to a lack of water that comes about through rainfall. This is especially so in the Middle East which lies in one of the driest regions of the world. These places with low or no rainfall need to rely on other forms of water provision. It is for this reason that seawater is used to provide the water that is necessary for drinking, irrigation and industries in the Arab World, and especially so in the UAE (Al Serkal, 2007). 2.Desalination in the UAE: Methods/Processes of desalination There are many methods in which desalination can come about. One of these methods is the multistage flash (MSF) process. Despite the high cost it has a high production output. This MSF plant can also be coupled to a heat source and so produce power as well (Al-Sheyji, 1998;Hamed, 2004). The MSF process (in use for more than 40 years) because of its simplicity, reliability and huge output capacity, is used the most in the region and the UAE (Hamed, 2004). Distillation and the reverse osmosis (RO) processes are main features of the MSF method of desalination. During this process, water is distilled by flashing a portion of the water into steam. This happens in multiple stages through heat exchangers. With the...
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...Water Conservation Nature is great. It meets most of our needs without which life is impossible. All of our needs that are made available to us by nature are called Natural Resources. The most important requirements that are needed to sustain life on this planet include Air, Water, Food, Energy and Shelter. Water is an integral part of land/soil productivity base. It covers about 70% of the earth’s surface. The water is made available to us by rain and snow. The demand for water is increasing every year due to tremendous increase or rise in population and due to greater expansion of industries. The agricultural has also expanded and more water is needed for irrigation purposes. A huge amount of water is wasted by way of floods. This is mainly due to destruction of forests in our hills. This has rendered the hill slope bare so that water flows down unchecked. Lot of water is wasted in the atomic reactors and other cooling devices. This wastage and greater use of water will create water scarcity or may even lead to water famine. To safe guard from such a situation conservation of water is essential. A few steps for conservation for water are suggested below. 1. Checking Deforestation: - The first and the foremost attention should be directed towards checking deforestation. The felling of trees on the hills should be stopped rather banned. This will also help in checking soil erosion and soil permeability. The felling will not impair soil permeability but, on the contrary...
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...SP: My main purpose of today speech is that to pursiver cut back on the water usage and save time plus h much water we use a day the effect of taking long shower. CS: My credibility on this topic that I take a 5 minute shower most on a daily base even today Preview: Today I will try to convince to take 5 minute shower and here is some of my reason why you should because of the water usage and the effect of taking long shower and the 5 minute challenge Transition I. How many times you take a shower during out the day? If you say more than 2 and you are not average person. Water usage A) Most of us in this classroom use water in an everyday routine like brush your teeth, wash clothes and ect. But do you how much water you use 1. The average person take a 10 to 15 minute that is roughly 150 to 250 liters of water is wasted you have a 10 min shower, you waste 150 liters of water. Multiply that over a week and you have 1,050 liters of water. Multiply that over one year and you waste 50,400 liters of water. 2. If you have a 20 min shower, you waste 300 liters of water. Multiply that over a week and you waste 2,100 liters of water. Multiply that over one year, and you waste 100,800 liters of water. B) On to my point five minute shower 1. If you have a five minute shower, then you use 75 liters of water. Multiply that over a week and you get 525 liters of water. Multiply that over one year and you will only use 25,200 liters. In fact,...
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...of new cafe in Toowoomba is to consider and risks that could impact on human resources management, financial operations, OHS, our supply chain and the local governance and overall compliance issues. 2. Goals * Set up policy and procedure to guide staff role. * Install water tank and training staff to reduce water waste. * Renovate cafe * 3. Stakeholders Stakeholder | Internal/External | Role in process | Issues and Concerns | Employees | Internal | Standard of services, Education and Knowledge about coffee. | They are on three months’ probation. | Supervisors | Internal | | | Chef | Internal | Qualified chef and Developed an innovative and popular range of rice wraps | None of the other cafes in the area offered these. | | Internal | | | Landlord | External | | | Suppliers | External | | | Customers | External | Retirees people | Economic issues cannot spend too much.Transportation issues easy to access to shop. | | External | | | 4. PEST Analysis Political Environmental regulations: The current by-law has fines of up to $50,000 for excessive water breaches. The store currently uses 41,000lt per week. The water have been wasted under inappropriate such as using half full running dishwasher, washing fruits and vegetables under a fast running tap, Toilet are the single flush system and fully watered for the non-native flower plants. Economic Social Age distribution: Technological The Federal...
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