Hw Assignment #1

Hw Assignment #1

1. I think the lack of water is more critical than water pollution because there are many ways to filter and purify polluted water, but there is no way to retain lost water.

ISAS:

1. If Jimmy Hendricks just drank packaged fruit juice during the water shortage he would end up using more water. It takes more water to make fruit juice because the amount of liquid in the container is insignificant when it is compared with the amount of water used to make the container or to irrigate the fruit to process it.

2. In producing bread you need water to irrigate the wheat then processing it requires water then water is used to make the wrapping around the bread.

8. In the past 100 and 1 million years water has been used up more and more. The amount of pollution has also grown over the years.

9. The greatest amount of water abundance on Earth is in oceans, glaciers, rivers, then water vapor.

10. This quote would be true when referring to contaminated or polluted water because you can be surrounded about it, but you can not drink it. This quote may also be true when talking about water in the gaseous state because you can be surrounded by it, but it is physically impossible to drink it.

11. About 80% of water is used irrigation and agriculture in the U.S. region.

12. A) Glaciers and ice caps: 2.11%
      B)  Lakes: 0.009%

13. It might be possible that a molecule of water drunken today was once swallowed by a dinosaur because water is recycled throughout the earth in the sense that rain and snow fall, flow back into large bodies of water, that water evaporates into the air, and falls again.

17.  The fact that each person in the United States uses an average of 370 L of water daily and each capital of the Unites States uses 4960 L is true because not all water is used by people, so a lot of the water used in these capitals would not be considered being used by a person, therefore making this statistic correct.


A.5:

1. For each region in the Unites States the greatest single uses of water are: a) The East: Steam/Electric b) The South: Stream/Electric c) The Midwest: Stream/Electric d) The West: Irrigation/agriculture e) Alaska: Mining f) Hawaii: Irrigation/ agriculture.

2. The East uses more steam and electric water than the West. This is due to the habits in society in each of these areas. The East uses more industrial water while the West uses more irrigation/agricultural because there are more farms in the West due to it's weather and there are more industries in the East.

3. In the East there are very hot summers, which means that the air conditioning is in high usage. The East also gets very cold in the winter, which calls for the heater to be on constantly to warm homes. These two factors in the weather cause high steam and electric usage. The South gets very humid in the summers and this leads to the use of showers more often, which compels water to be used. The warm weather also causes people to spend more time in their homes and houses use a lot of electricity to light. The West has mild weather, which is good for the irrigation and agriculture. This causes more water to be used for watering and growing the crops. Because of the great weather for agriculture and irrigation, the crops need to be processed which also uses water. Alaska's stable economy depends on mining. Mining is a good source of money for many workers in Alaska and this requires the use of water. Hawaii has good weather in the summer for irrigation and agriculture. Hawaii's nice weather is also due to the fact that is is surrounded by a body of water at all sides, which also helps the irrigation and agriculture. She culture in the South consists of big families and because prices of houses are lower in most of the South, that requires more lighting and electricity. The families are also on average bigger so that requires more TVs and computers to be in use.