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A Water World

A Water World. Developed by Reynold Gardner Junction City High School, Based off of “A Water World” by Danny McGuire, KTEH Executive Producer http://www.pbs.org/kteh/cadillacdesert/water.html. Water…… Used for. cities irrigation industry recreational commercial

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A Water World

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  1. A Water World • Developed by Reynold Gardner • Junction City High School, • Based off of “A Water World” by Danny McGuire, KTEH Executive Producer • http://www.pbs.org/kteh/cadillacdesert/water.html

  2. Water…… Used for • cities • irrigation • industry • recreational • commercial • clean, abundant supplies of water is an assumption

  3. Water Availbilty • Earth's 5.8 billion human inhabitants do not have access to a reliable, clean supply of water. • 70 percent world's surface is water • up to seven miles deep. • Bound to the earth would form a sphere half the diameter of the moon.

  4. Isn’t Enough Water • Water delivery systems • aqueducts, • dams • reservoirs • desalination TOO EXPENSIVE • Aquifers being depleted • Lakes shrinking • Wetlands taken out • Surface streams overused • Pollution limits supplies

  5. One Gallon of H2O = Earth H2O • Available fresh water = tablespoon • 93% seawater • 2 percent ice-caps and glaciers • Other Reserves • Underlie the planet's surface, but much of it is too deep to economically tap.

  6. Earth Allotment of H2O • 344 million Total • 315 million cubic miles (cm) (93%) is sea water! • 9 million cm (2.5%) aquifers below the earth's surface • 7 million cm (2%) frozen in polar ice caps • 53,000 cm lakes and streams • 4,000 cm atmospheric moisture • 3,400 cm in the bodies of living things

  7. Population • Increases, demand for fresh, safe water. • U.S. Water Consumption • 1980 330 million gallons a day • 1990 408 million gallons a day in

  8. Water management • Focused on manipulating supplies of freshwater • ”Supply management" approach • Resulted in the building of large dams and Transfer systems • Municipal water supply to irrigation.

  9. Water management • Increasing development costs • Capital shortages, • government fiscal restraint, • diminishing water supply, • polluted water, • growing concern for the environment

  10. Water management • Rethink traditional approaches • Experiment with new ideas of management. • Western United States we are in transition... • Era of water-supply development, • To an era of water-demand management and conservation.

  11. Water management • Future will be centered on optimizing the use of existing surface-water projects • Rather than on the further development of large storage reservoirs. • More efficient water application techniques. • Developing water conservation measures such as lining irrigation canals and installing more efficient plumbing fixtures in homes and office buildings.

  12. Agriculture • Bulk of U.S. water use. • Average American consumes 1,500 pounds of food each year. • 1,000 gallons of water are required to grow and process each pound of food. • 1.5 million gallons of water is invested in the food eaten by just one person. • 200,000-cubic-feet-plus of water-per-person would be enough to cover a football field four feet deep.

  13. Industry • 2nd Largest User of Water • 28 billion gallons of fresh water used everyday • Seven trillion gallons per year--to make the products that are part of our everyday life:

  14. Industry • 50,000 gallons are required to produce the rayon for an average living room carpet; • 40,000 gallons to produce steel for one automobile; 518 gallons for one tire; • 1,500 gallons to process a barrel of beer; • 100 gallons to make a pound of cotton; • 55 gallons to make one pound of synthetic rubber; • 24 gallons to make one pound of plastic.

  15. Inadequate supplies of water • Conflicting plans for use • Should our limited water supply be used to vitalize a large city, or would it be more productive if used to grow a crop? • Should it be left in the stream for the convenience of fish and fishermen? • Or would it play a more vital role if used to slurry coal down a pipeline?

  16. Inadequate supplies of water • Should water-rich areas (such as the Pacific Northwest) sell water to water-short areas (such as the Southwest) via long-distance diversions? • Which should be sacrificed, water quality--or jobs? Such questions have too often been answered with convenience and short-term gain as the determining factors.

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