Title: Water Calculator
Purpose: The purpose of this activity is show how much water that you use everyday and people in other countries don't even get the chance to have safe access to this amount of water.
Background/Reasoning/Evidence: After doing your calculations for your own water usage you can see how much water is needed for life. According to the Department for International Development, one billion people do not have an access to safe and affordable drinking water, and 2.4 billion people live in conditions lacking adequate sanitation. Each year about 4 million people die of waterborne diseases, including 2 million children who die of diarrhoeal. More than 800 million people , 15 % of the world population is malnourished, due in part of insufficient water for crops. Now think again how much water you use... Guinea Worm Disease (GWD) is an extremely painful parasitic infection spread through contaminated drinking water. Infection occurs among people living in impoverished communities in remote parts of Africa that do not have safe water to drink. According to the CDC, over 9,500 cases of Guinea Worm Disease were reported in 2007. Now think of what those people in Africa and what they could do with that amount of water you use... According to the WHO, over 40 billion work hours are lost in Africa to the need to fetch drinking water. Now think if you had to over 40 billion hours to fetch your water...would you still be using the same amount of water?
Instructions: Just go to Water Calculator and type in your numbers then at then end hit the "update total" button.
Other Activities:
During my search I found some other activities that I thought were good but not really suitable for the age group that I was aiming for. But I still wanted to share it with you because they are good.
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I use 107 gallons a day.. YIKES!
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