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How does wasting water in school work?

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26-05-11 Andrea

It begins when someone goes for example to the bathroom, and they wash their hands. And they find leaky faucets, but they dont pay attention to it. But what they dont know is that because of people that ignore that, when a faucet drips a whole day there are 200 gallons of water wasted. Just for 1 faucet that drops a day. But of course almost no one knows that, so they wont do anything about it. Then they put their hand on their pocket and find a paper. So they throw it into the toilet and flush it; but they dont know that every flush wastes 6 liters of water. I really dont understant why they do this, the paper will be still thrown away even though they throw it on the trash. Another situation is when you go to take a shower when you have just go out of P.E. You are sweting and you are too hot, so you want to take a long and refreshing shower. But what they dont know is that showers of 5-10 minutes waste 25 to 50 gallons! And in P.E they give you 15-20 minutes to get a shower, so you will waste about 75-200 gallons per shower.

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= Internet: = Isabella Odraba 28-05-11

= Photos of the internet: = Isabella Odarba 28/05/11

Internet
25-05-11 Isabella Odarba when students here at school take showers, they aerent aware of how much water do they waste, if you take a shower for half an hour here at school it's around about 50 gal you lost.

People Uses ordinary showerheads with flow rate of 5 galons per minute. People takes 5 to 10-minute showers. People Uses 25 to 50 gallons of water per shower. (5 galons per minute x 5 minutes a day= 25 galons per day) (5 galons per minute x 10 minutes a day = 50 galons per day) People Uses 9125 gallons of water annually, assuming daily showers. (25 galons per shower x 365 showers in a year =9125 galons a year) WATER CONSERVING INDIVIDUAL

1. Use water-conserving showerheads with flow rate of 3 galons a minute. 2. Take 5-minute showers. 3. Use 15 gallons of water per shower. (3 galons per minute x 5 minutes a day = 15 galons a day) 4. Use 5475 gallons of water annually, assuming daily showers. (15 galons per shower x 365 showers a year =5475 galons per year) __[]__

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Internet
Isabella Odarba 24/05/11 In the school people go to the toilet and throw many things, ussulay at ccb vegetables, fruit, tissues,and papers, for each flush they waste 6 or 7 litres of water.At the showers students go and put the key on and wair 10 to 20 seconds to get in so there people waste many water, them people satay 10 minutes to 12 minutes and that wastes up to 50 gallons at the showers we have at the school.At the faucets kids come and turn the faucet on, the big amount of water falling without use in many of the cases is because people most of the times use it to wash their hands and leave the faucet open while they go for the soap and when they return already 10 litres have been wasted, they finish washing the soap off and then finally they turn the faucet off. - o o ---

Internet
23-0511 Andrea:


 * Leaky Toilets / Leaky Faucets-**If you notice a leaky pipe, faucet, or toilet, get it fixed immediately. A leaky toilet, for example, can waste up to 200 gallons of water a DAY. So please, fix your water problems.


 * Using the Toilet as a Garbage Can-** Do Not Do This! Throw out everything in a garbage can, even if it is tempting to just throw it in the toilet. Tissues, Hair, and Bugs are things that people generally throw away in the toilet, but they will be disposed if thrown away in the garbage can as well.

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Toilets: Installing a new water conserving toilet can save as much as 17 gallons per person per day. Even a low cost installing a toilet flapper can save more than 5 gallons per person per day.

Faucets: Replacing your old faucets with more efficient models can save 4 gallons per person per day. Faucet aerators or spray taps can also help, by mixing air with water. This cuts the flow and reduces splashing, while leaving enough pressure to cut the soap and grease.

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Did you know that a tap that dripd every second for a whole day, wastes 30 liters? (This information is linked because it says how people waste water and how much)

Internet
15-05-11 Andrea: =How much water is wasted by leaving faucests open? = Check your faucets at home -- do any of them drip? Well, maybe it's just a small drip -- how much water can a little drip waste? True, a single drip won't waste much water. But think about each faucet in your home dripping a little bit all day long. What if every faucet in every home on your block ... in your town ... in your state also dripped? The drips would add up to a flood of water wasted down the drain. There is no scientific definition of the volume of a faucet drip, but after measuring a number of kitchen and bathroom sink faucets, the volume seems to be between 1/5th and 1/3rd of a milliliter (mL). Drips from bathroom tubs come in a bit more, though, at about 1/2 mL. So, for our calculations below (numbers are rounded), we are going to use 1/4 mL as the volume of a faucet drip. So, by these drip estimates: Looking at it this way, it seems like that drop of water down the drain is pretty insignificant. But, as you can see by using the form below, all those drops flowing in "real time" can really add up to a flood. (This is linked because it says how much water is wasted)
 * One gallon: 15,140 drips
 * One liter: 4,000 drips

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CAROLINA GUTIERREZ 12.5.11 it starts when someone wash his/here hands, close the faucet but dont close it all and left the faucet droping dorps, dont care and go. PEOPLE THING A FAUCET DROPING WILL NOT WASTE ANY THING!! But it waste a lot, if hours pass imagine how many people could drink water or use it for something necessary. Many people!! Also when people take a shower, they spend a lot of water and time. When a toilet got damage, they start wasting water, also the tubes of the drain because they can have a leakage of water and will waste a lot of water. Each 4 mounths they (the school) can have a maintenance or a check for not wasting water. Sometimes a tube of the sprue it has broken and a lot of water got out, for prevention, for not to happen again it can have a check, maintenance or change the tubes or the sprue for new ones. Also the students play with the sprue water traying to get wet between frinds. -- o o -

Internet
Isabella odarba 12/05/1

===Baths or Long Showers === Taking a full bath or a long shower uses a lot of water, up to 50 gallons notes the EPA. Instead, take a 5-minute shower or only fill the bathtub up a third of the way. In addition to saving water, you will save money on heating the water.

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(this is related to function because this is how this long baths work, how can we improve it also)

=﻿Previous Knowledge = 27-05-11 Andrea Students behave iresponsably towards the situation. They go for example to the bathroom and leave the faucets open. Also when workers dont say to their superiors when the hose are bad and have holes. So a lot of water is wasted and it´s badly used

isabella odarba 10/5/11

Students behave without responsibility towards the water because they waste water and don't have concience about the problem, they leave faucets open and take really long showers on the gym. Students leave the potable water dirty and we dont care about the little amount of water we have at school.

( this is related to function because my perspective about this is how does this problem work)