WATERGY: A Water and Energy Conservation Model for Federal Facilities By Dr. Sharon deMonsabert‚ P.E. Associate Professor‚ Urban Systems Engineering George Mason University Fairfax‚ VA 22030-4444 Phone: 703-993-1747 Fax: 703-993-1706 Barry L. Liner Consultant - Management Practice Water Research Center (WRc inc.) 7700 Leesburg Pike‚ Suite 400 Falls Church‚ VA 22043 Phone: 703-918-9573 Fax: 703-749-7962 Presented At CONSERV’96 Orlando‚ Florida January 6‚ 1996 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The
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The consequences of the lack of water By J. C. Cardona 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people. UNICEF/WHO 2008. Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation. 3.575 million People die each year from water-related disease.World Health Organization. 2008. Safer Water‚ Better Health: Costs‚ benefits‚ and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health. The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through
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Introduction Water is our body ’s most important nutrient‚ is involves in every bodily function‚ and makes up 70- 75% of our total body weight. Water helps you to maintain body temperature‚ metabolize body fat‚ aids in digestion‚ lubricates and cushions organs‚ transports nutrients‚ and flushes toxins from our body. Everyone should drink at least 64 ounces per day‚ and if you exercise or are overweight‚ even more. Our blood is approximately 90% water and is responsible for transporting
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Global Fresh Water Shortage Fresh water shortage is a global issue. There are more than one hundred countries face different levels of fresh water shortage‚ and thirty years later there will be 28 to 33 hundred billion people have shortages of water. People lived in fresh water shortage countries cannot even have water to keep them alive. Because of the fresh water shortage‚ people lived near the southern Sahara desert abandoned farmland‚ and 200‚000 people died from that. Africa‚ Asia‚ North American
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Critical Literature Review: Water Wars INTRODUCTION: The term War as violent as it is in its connotation‚ should be understood as an actual‚ intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities‚ war is a violent way for determining who gets to say what goes on in a given territory (Orend). With this said‚ conflicts over water have been the source of dispute since humans began cultivating food; hence the word “rivalry” comes from the Latin word rivali‚ “one using the same
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Historical Account of the Industry 1.1 When and how did it start in the Philippine Setting? The National Water Resources Board (NWRB) was created in 1974 as the authoritative national organization to coordinate and integrate all activities in water resources development and management. Its main objective is to achieve scientific and orderly development and management of all the water resources of the Philippines consistent with the principles of optimum usage‚ conservation and protection to meet
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Properties of Water Introduction: Water’s chemical description is H2O. As the diagram to the left shows‚ that is one atom of oxygen bound to two atoms of hydrogen. The hydrogen atoms are "attached" to one side of the oxygen atom‚ resulting in a water molecule having a positive charge on the side where the hydrogen atoms are and a negative charge on the other side‚ where the oxygen atom is. This uneven distribution of charge is called polarity. Since opposite electrical charges attract‚ water molecules
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molecule of water A chemist’s view of the world is not as narrow as one might think! Yes‚ we start with the atom‚ and then go on to the rules governing the kinds of structural units that can be made from them. We are taught early on to predict the properties of bulk matter from these geometric arrangements. And then we come to H2O‚ and are shocked to find that many of these predictions are way off‚ and that water (and by implication‚ life itself) should not even exist on our planet! But we soon
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Cause and Effects of Water Pollution Water is a key resource on our planet and is undervalued by humans causing water pollution. Water makes up 70% of the earth and 60% of the human body‚ therefore the pollution of water is in need to come to an end because it is essential to all living aspects on earth ("Causes and Effects of Water Pollution…"). Water pollution is typically caused by littering‚ industrial waste‚ oil pollution‚ and primarily‚ by the human carelessness. It needs to be taken more
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Managing Water Scarcity for Water Security Prepared for FAO by J.T. Winpenny - Edited to suit this e-mail conference The nature and scale of the problem Water scarcity and water stress [W-1] In popular usage‚ "scarcity" is a situation where there is insufficient water to satisfy normal requirements. However‚ this commonsense definition is of little use to policy makers and planners. There are degrees of scarcity - absolute‚ life-threatening‚ seasonal‚ temporary‚ cyclical‚ etc. Populations with
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