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Sustainable Water Resource Management: A Comprehensive Review

Explore the strategies to slow world population growth and enhance education, healthcare, family planning, and employment to ensure economic and social security. Learn about the significance of water resources, the role of water in Earth's ecology, and its vital functions for all living organisms. Discover the importance of water for human society, including personal and technological water usage. Reflect on the hydrological cycle and principles of sustainability related to water management. Join us in understanding the current state of global water resources and the imperative for sustainable practices worldwide.

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Sustainable Water Resource Management: A Comprehensive Review

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  1. Our Water Resources ENS1023/10/2006

  2. Review • How can we slow world population growth? • Improving education - literacy • health- reproductive, physical, mental, social • family planning • employment • corporate investment in literacy in developing countries • Family Planning • counseling • pre and post natal care • Investing in Social Security • Economic Security (alleviate poverty) • more jobs (especially for women) • education for employment • Education on resource management • greenbelt movement • What is the current world population?

  3. Quiz • 1. What resource is “absolutely fundamental to life as we know it”. • 2. What % of the Earth’s water is useable freshwater?a. 0.77% b. 2.5% c. 30% d. 70% • 3. What is a rain shadow? • 4. The greatest consumer of water in society today is:a. households; b. industry; c. agriculture

  4. Water in the News? • Let's visit the library news database.

  5. Water - ecology & resource • De 8:7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills, (>600) • Why did God create water? • What is the role of water in Creation? • The anthropic principle or “the functional integrity of Creation” principle

  6. What role does water play for organisms? • hydration • growth • cleaning • habitat • majority of body • cooling

  7. Water - ecology & resource • Most of every living organism is water. • ≈70% • Osmoregulation • Solvent • Specific heat • Organismic balance

  8. Water - ecology & resource • Most of the Earth is water. • 71% of the earth’s surface

  9. Water - ecology & resource • What roles does water play on Earth? • Take 5 minutes, use your text, and make a list of the roles • water cycle • irrigation • weather and climate • growth • energy • life sustaining

  10. Water - ecology & resource • What roles does water play on Earth?

  11. Water - ecology & resource • What roles does water play on Earth?

  12. Water - ecology & resource • What roles does water play on Earth?

  13. Water - ecology & resource • What roles does water play on Earth? • A temperature and climate regulator • High specific heat (1 cal/g) • High heat of freezing (80 cal/g) • High heat of vaporization (540 cal/g) • A weather machine in interaction with the sun. • Water keeps the earth livable.

  14. What role does water play for human society? • Take 5 minutes, use your text, and make a list of the roles

  15. Water - ecology & resource • What role does water play for humans? • Physiological water • 2.3 liters per day • Functional integrity of climate systems • 97.418 % • Living water • 100 gallons/person/day (8%) • Growing our food • 700 gallons/person/day • Technological water - 970 gallons/person/d

  16. Water - ecology & resource • What role does water play for humans? • personal water

  17. Water - ecology & resource • What role does water play for humans? • Technological water - 970 gallons/person/d

  18. Water - ecology & resource • What role does water play for humans? • 1770 gallons/person/day

  19. Water - ecology & resource • What role does water play for humans? • 1770 gallons/person/day

  20. Water - ecology & resource • The hydrological cycle

  21. Principles of sustainability as related to water • Ecosystems use sunlight as their main source of energy • Ecosystems are built upon interrelationships not independence • Ecosystems dispose of wastes and replenish nutrients by recycling • Ecosystems, regulatethe size of member populations • Ecosystems, maintain (bio)diversity

  22. For Monday • Continue reading Chapter 7 and we will examine the state of our water resources from MN to around the world

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