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Environmental Science Project Proposal 2
Topic Chosen:
“Spend one entire day keeping a journal of your water use. Be sure to specify where and when you are using the water and for how long it runs. Take note of specific times when you use water wastefully and can improve and give a summary of what you learned”
Outline:
Water is the lifeline source for living creatures to exist on this planet, from Pico scale organism to macro organism relies on water for survival. In general, water is referred to as universal fluid due to its versatile function and wide range of applicability in all segments. The human body is comprised of 70% water and many water-borne creatures have a waiter ratio more than us.
In-plant/vegetation water is the main component for the transport of nutrients to plant cells from soil source and through photosynthesis plant leaves gives off water source in the form of droplet vapor to the atmosphere. Which gets converted to clouds and pours back freshwater in the form of rain a main source of water for surface creatures to survive, since seawater is having high salt content which is not suitable for the surface creature to consume as salt ion imbalance Na-K pump in the body cells.
As water is a precious resource gifted by the creator to surface creatures, we humans taken for granted and been wasting freshwater, polluting it severely by industrial activities and home appliance usage. More awareness on environment and water conservation increases these days due to increased global warming and rapid disappearance/melting of glaciers.
This experiment/study will be recording my daily usage of water using a Journal comprising of time, the quantity of water used by computing run time to summarize the water wastage from my side.
Workload:
Time to be spent Doing what?
Week 1 3-4 hours Collecting water point source and literature survey
Week 2 2-3 hours Reading/data collection and cross-validation with journals
Week 3 4-5 hours Compilation of complete project in the prescribed format
Project data:
Water usage for a day will be recorded using Journal on each usage noting the run time and wastage, by computing and analyzing the data will be able to optimize water usage by finding out the source point of my water waste. This will help me to follow good practice on water usage to reduce the waste which helps to conserve water in the long run, once my method proves fail proof then I will impart method to my family members and my surrounding families to follow the same for the conservation of water.
Citations: (expected)
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/waterresourcesmanagement
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11269-019-02347-z
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/water-resources-management
Think about it:
• The study/research helps us to reduce water wastage and increase water conservation leads to the adoption of good habits on resource usage which we humans are lacking currently with unnecessary usage of the appliance in water wastage.
• This task will help to develop a standard set of good practices on water resource usage consciously/mindfully, once one community makes an example on water conservation will lead to following up by entire county results in conservation of more water resources.