How is Hong Kong being affected by pollution?

The class I took was called Water. We learned about how important and scarce water really is. In this unit we learned about glaciers and how they provide a massive amount of fresh water for people around them. Unfortunately glaciers are melting at a fast rate due to global warming and they won't be around much longer. For this project we had to focus on a certain city and write about the future climate. I studied Hong Kong and learned about how there could be a catastrophe caused by global warming. We also learned about cloud types and where certain clouds form in the atmosphere. All of this content is in the project.

  

Why Waste your Water

The class I took was called water. We learned about water filters, how they work and why people need them. Filters are similar to the earth because the earth has different layers and that's similar to the way my filter was made. My favorite part of this course was when we went to the water filtration plant and saw where Chicago gets its water. It was amazing to see the massive plant that manages to produce 1 million clean gallons of water per minute.

D.S (2016) Filter Poster

Materials

• Cup
• Gatorade bottle
• Sand
• Gravel
• Foam
• Stick

I got my materials from friends and from my teacher.

Step 1- Put a piece of foam into the cup

Step 2- Put sand on top of the foam

Step 3- Put gravel on top of the sand

Step 4- Put another piece of foam on top of the gravel

Step 5- Then out bigger pieces of gravel on top of the foam 

Step 6- Then add sand and another layer of foam

Step 7- Then put the Gatorade bottle under the Starbucks bottle 

I used this filter design because it is similar to other filter designs because it has the different layers and the water catching device at the bottom.

My filter works because the water goes through the different layers of water and the different layers take out the contaminants.

My filter is similar to underground filtration because they both have different layers of materials that filter out contaminants.

The source of my water is river water but I added many contaminants such as mushrooms, screws and other things. The original ph was 3.6 and after it was 4.1 which means there was a difference of .5 this is in the acidic side of the scale.

10^-4.1=.000079

10^-3.6=.00025

3.16 diffrence in PH

H20 For Change

The class I took this unit is called water I learned about how much water I use and how much water the world uses. I really like going to get water at the river and I finally understood how bad people have it in other places. For my action project, I showed my water usage compared to America and the rest of the world.

How much water do you use? To give you an idea the average American uses about 151.8 gallons of water per day. That's a lot of water. The entirety of America uses about 48,272,400,136.6 gallons of water a day. Lake Michigan has about 6 quadrillion gallons which mean if every American drank from only lake Michigan the lake would run out of water in about 360 years which is not a lot when compared to the 200000 years humans have been alive. This shows how little water we really have. That's not considering the people who will be born in the future.

I divided my water usage into 4 categories which are cleaning, hygiene, drinking, and other. I used the most for Hygiene which was 38.3% or 23 Gallons. Second was cleaning at 33.3% which is 20 gallons of water. The third was other it was 26.7% or 9 gallons. And the fourth was drinking because I drank about a gallon a day.

The average person in the UK uses about 150 Liters per day. I use an average of 194.11 liters per day which is 40.11 Liters more than the average UK resident. This goes to show that Americans use much more water than they need to because I use a third of the water of a normal American and still use more than the average UK resident and they use a lot compared to many countries such as Nigeria that use about 45 liters a day. And even they don't use the least amount of water.

Less than one percent of all the world water is drinkable. And even out of that much of the water is hard to access. That's the reason water is so rare in places like Africa.

DS(2016) Water AP