2011 Special Report Valuing Water: HoW Can Businesses Manage tHe CoMing sCarCity? http://environment.wharton.upenn.edu • http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu sponsors The Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) and Knowledge@ Wharton have partnered to create this special report on business and the environment. We are most grateful to the Xerox Foundation for supporting collaboration and funding of this edition. Contents Valuing Water: How Can Businesses Manage the
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Importance of Water: "Our most important resource‚ yet most misused resource". Gregory Drake 11036163 29/04/2013 Critical studies 3 INTRODUCTION Humans and the environment. Humans have been on this earth for thousands of years. We have learned to survive and adapt to our environmental surroundings. The relationship between the environment and us humans has changed drastically over the past few decades. Our ancestors and those before them‚ saw the environment as a haven which should
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desalination is the process to make seawater or otherwise undrinkable water safe to consume. This can be accomplished through a variety of methods such as the simplest but one of the ones that requires a lot of money would be distillation. Distillation is commonly associated with the creation of alcohol like whiskey‚ though it can be used to make "pure" water as well. Simply put distillation is heating the water until the water evaporates and leaves the unwanted materials being therefore making it
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nitrate (Pb(NO3)2) from water. There are various ways to remove lead dissolved into water. Many of them are expensive and/or very industrial. Due to my circumstances‚ I chose five that were somewhat doable. The five methods are coagulation‚ carbon filtering‚ reverse osmosis‚ ground coffee filtering‚ and distillation. Coagulation was done by using a flocculant (aluminum sulfate) that clump small‚ destabilized particles together so that it could be easy separated from the water. Carbon filtering is a
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storage of rainwater for reuse before it reaches the aquifer. Uses include water for garden‚ water for livestock‚ water for irrigation‚ etc. In many places the water collected is just redirected to a deep pit with percolation. The harvested water can be used for drinking water as well if the storage is a tank that can be accessed and cleaned when needed. Rainwater harvesting provides an independent water supply during regional water restrictions‚ and in developed countries is often used to supplement
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FOREIGN LITERATURE Eureka Forbes launches mobile water purifier NEW DELHI: Home appliances maker Eureka Forbes has launched mobile water purifier ’Aquaguard-on-the -Go’‚ priced at Rs 595. Aquaguard-on-the-Go is in shape of a sipper loaded with miniaturized water purification technology and would be available across retail outlets and general stores‚ Eureka Forbes said in a statement. It would be available in four variants - black mystery‚ pink beauty‚ pearl white and racy blue‚ Eureka Forbes‚ a
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RAIN WATER HARVESTING Contents 1. Introduction 2. Traditional Water Harvesting Methods a. Percolation Pit Method b. Bore Well With Settlement Tank Method c. Open Well Method d. Percolation Pit With Bore Well Method 3. What Is Rainwater Harvesting? 4. Components Of Rainwater Harvesting a. Catchments b. Coarsemesh c. Gutters d. Conduits e. First-Flushin f. Filter 5. Store Rainwater Or Use For Recharge 6. RWH- An
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Water Conservation Water is essential to Earth. We need it to cook‚ bathe‚ provide power‚ control fire‚ and last but not least‚ we need it to live! Therefore‚ it is very important to human survival. When 70% of Earth is made up of water‚ you would think that we have plenty of water for our needs. But really‚ about 97% of that water is made up of ocean. We cannot use this water because it is too saline for our needs. Only 3% of Earth’s water is fresh‚ and 2% of that supply is frozen
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Access to water is an essential human need therefore; it is a basic human right. An adequate amount of safe water is necessary to prevent death from dehydration‚ and it is also used for personal hygienic requirements‚ and to simply keep sanitized. For most people across the world‚ this is very effortless and common; however for some of the unfortunates‚ access to water is a very difficult task for them. The water crisis is possibly the most severe human threat of our time‚ and the first and most
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Water scarcity Water scarcity involves water stress‚ water shortage or deficits‚ and water crisis. The concept of water stress is relatively new. Water stress is the difficulty of obtaining sources of fresh water for use‚ because of depleting resources. A water crisis is a situation where the available potable‚ unpolluted water within a region is less than that region’s demand. Water scarcity is difficulty of obtaining water for use because of depleting resources. It occurs due to both Natural
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