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The country I chose is Kenya. The usable public water there is not the cleanest, some people have taps, but most people use water from contaminated wells and some use surface water. The average amount of water consumed is 12.15 gallons a year. There are no purification processes and it takes 3-4 hours to get water from their source.
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The country I chose is Poland. All of Poland gets public water and usable water from ground water. The ground water contains over 3000km cubed, it's usability can be exploited due to the poor renewalability of it. For the past few years the total amount of gallons used of water from all around Poland is 11100hm cubed. The average use of water by person in Poland is about 125 litres a day. Most of the sources come from ground water, rivers, river basins, and lakes; some even get it from the Baltic Sea. A purification process is for there popular water brand Poland Spring. The process icludes carbon filtration, many filters, and a process called reverse osmosis. Poland's water costs on average from 1.25 euros to 2 euros.
Right now in Japan a politician drank water that was scooped up from a pool that got mixed with a nuclear power plant. As he drank this it was being filmed on the news. Once he had drank it nothing happened to him, but they are still saying not to give babies tap water because of worries of radiation. Approximately 320 liters are being drank per year. For a liter of water, they are being sold at the price of $1.38.
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My country is Ethiopia. The water there is unsanitary. Most of the water is contaminated with organic material and bacteria. Many diseases happen because of the unclean water and people die. The annual person use about 2 1/2 gallons of water per day. Sometimes purifiers are used in certain parts of the area. Only 31% of rural ethiopia have safe water. About 3% of water resources are used. These include piped water supply, wells, boreholes, and springs. There are no wastewater treatment plants. Cost recovery is too low to recover operating costs.
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The country I chose was Haiti. Water supply in Port-au-Prince, which is in Haiti, was an issue before the earthquake happened. Their public water network is now seriously damaged. The amount of water they use each day is about 30% of water per person, per day. Their sources are groundwater recharge and surface water produced internally.
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The country I picked was Australia. They have good quality water. Australia’s water is vulnerable to drought so there Is an increase of water. Australia has a population of about 18 million people that uses about 20 million ML a year. They use that water for agriculture, Industrial, and urban use. There sources of water are aquifer storage, the reuse of water, and seawater desalination. South Australian Water Corporation developed a new way to take away bad water from the water supply. It was called the MIEX® process, the short way to say magnetic ion exchange. The process makes water cleaner, safer, and better at a lower cost than previous ways and in less time. I couldn’t find the exact price of Australia’s water but I did find that Australians are using water a lot more because of the inappropriate pricing.
The country I choose would be Liberia. Before the war they had thier own water treatment plant, which is now gone. The previous perecntage was 45 percent, of clean, piped water. Now today few people have taps and the others are forced to drink from untreated wells, ponds, lakes, etc..leaving the total percentage at only 68 percent of people drinking unclean water. One purification process would be a bore hole- a well dug by hand to retrive fresh groundwater- and that process serves many of them well to this day. It takes about 30 minutes to an hour to find any type of water source, as most end up drinking from the unclean creek.
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ReplyDeleteThe country that I choose would be Mexico. We have all heard one time or another don't drink the water in Mexico. This is because something they call Montezuma's revenge. The natives to Mexico have grown up on the tap water all their lives so they can just drink up, but if you’re a traveler you may have some issues like Diarrhea, Stomach cramping, Nausea, Light-headedness, or Fever. When people visit Mexico they are recommended to boil water before drinking or to drink bottled water.
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The country i chose is Afghanistan. About 28% of Afghanistan’s population have access to clean drinking water – that means 20 million people in the country do not. While we usually think of war and poverty as the main issues facing Afghanistan, water is often at the root of those problems, bringing disease and conflicts over sources. A gallon of water at the in Afghanistan costs the military $4.78 (compared to the assured delivery price of $1.42/gallon).The mountains of Afghanistan have always served as a natural storage facility and source of water. In fact, more than 80% of Afghanistan's water resources originate in the Hindu Kush Mountains. The snow accumulates in the winter, and melts in the spring. This, along with the melting of the glaciers in the summer feed important rivers like the Amu Darya. The Amu Darya basin alone holds more than 55% of Afghanistan's water resources.
The country I chose is India. Most water in India is not filtered, and gets contaminated by sewage waste and other harmful substances. Studies show that about 21% of diseases in India is caused by drinking water. The investement is $5 USD per gallon. The average consumption of water in India is 150 liters a day. Not everybody in India gets the chance to use water. India gets their water from lakes, rivers, ponds, or ground water.
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ReplyDeleteI choose the country Ecuador. Did you know that most of the drinking water is in the form of 5 gallon plastic jugs "agua de bidon" that everyone has at home. Five gallons cost $1 delivered to your home.Alot of resturaunts use this galloned water to make ice cubes and juices.
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting fact is that less than 50% of Ecuadorians have access to clean drinking water but 90% of all infectious disease is caused by unhealthy water.The purification process they use is Slow Sand Filters.
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The country I chose is Paraguay. Even Paraguay’s aquifers can be trusted. One of their aquifers used for bottle water had faecal coli- form bacteria had been found in the water. The ended up finding 10 more companies with this bacteria in their water. There is also low coverage in rural areas with water and sanitation. Most of Paraguay’s water comes from surface water. A gallon of water costs approximately a penny and in Paraguay costs 11 cents.
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ReplyDeleteThe country I chose is Belgium. Belgium has the dirtiest water in the world according to an article that I read and also to other sources, but another source says that Belgium has good quality water. Water quality suffers from a relatively low percentage of sewage wastewater treatment and from historical pollution accumulated in sediments. The water here is in organic land and nutrients. Belgium’s water resources are distributed among five river basins and the residential water consumption was 106 liter/capita/day, while other sources say it was 135 liter/capita/day in 2003, down from 171 liter/capita/day in 1995. People in Belgium pay Euro 2.92 per cubic meter of water. I think the country Belgium need's to get more purification systems and aquifers so they can have nice clean water because we need to stop the suffering of dirty water because fish and people can get contaminated and die of this gross water. We need to make changes!
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The country that I chose is Indonesia. The water here can be characterized as not very clean. The majority of the public doesn’t have access to water pipes because it is so unsanitary. For the most part, the public drinks out of rivers. The quality of the rivers in Indonesia is decreasing from different types of pollution like agriculture and small industries. The average amount of water used per person in Indonesia is 393.5-549.5 meters cubed (superscript would not work). The sources of water are all the main rivers and some wells in the more populated areas. Currently there is no purification process going on to clean the water. For those getting water from the rivers. The only cost is having to spend their own time going to fetch the water from the rivers and wells.
The country I chose is Madagascar. In Madagascar many water sources are unclean, and few people have access to clean water at their homes. Only 41 percent of the people actually have access to water, and only 11 percent have access to sanitation. Many of the schools there suffer from the bad conditions of the water and many of the children get sick regularly. On average, households spend two or three hours a day collecting water whether it is clean or not. Even though there is a user friendly water treatment system, only 34 percent of the communities in rural Madagascar have some access to it.
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The country I choose was Italy. The average monthly price of water in Italy is €75 per month for a family home. To cut down on wasting water by letting it run down the drain some Italian homes have installed a €10,000 purification tank below their house. This directly purifies the water from the septic tank. The average amount of gallons of water used per day in Italy is about 386 gallons per day.
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The country that I chose is Uganda. The majority of cleaner water used in rural areas of Uganda comes from protected wells or springs. In urban areas, many people have access to purified water and piping systems. In total, about 60% of people from Uganda have access to clean water. They use less than 15 liters (almost 4 gallons) daily. The cost of water is about .62 US dollars per liter.
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ReplyDeleteThe country that I chose was the Bahamas. The water that the community is freshwater. The freshwater comes from the ground. The groundwater is clean. The average annual gallons used 8.101. 90% of all freshwater lenses are within five feet of the surface. Their is no purification process.The sources used for freshwater and groundwater is the rain
The Country I Chose Is Chile. 958 million m³ of water is used per year by all of Chile(Couldn't find per person). Chile has an agreement with Bolivia and Argentina for water supply as well as it's own rivers and resources such as the dry northern regions, central regions that are temperate and populated, and lightly populated southern provinces that get a lot of rain and snow. All the urban water companies in Chile are either private or owner-operated. Service Quality is very good compared to other countries, and water supply is continuous and the water pressure is plenty. The water rate in urban areas is about US$.8 to US$4.1. In the rural areas the rates only cover the operation & maintenence.
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The country I chose to research on was France, and the water quality there is good. In France, 62 percent of drinking water supply is from groundwater and 38 percent from surface water, but not every household recieves the same water. Each year, about 35770 gallons of water are used per person. The average annual cost per facility in France for water and sanitation is 175 Euro. There are two main types of water treatment plants in France. The Assainissement Non Collectif (ANC) that are all privately owned waste water treatment plants whatever the size, from an individual house septic tank or a 200 bedroom hotel waste water treatment plant. Also the Assainissement Collectif which are all municipal waste water treatment plants no matter the size.
The country I did is Jamaica. It depends on where you are, most water from Jamaica is piped water, so it may not be the cleanest. The water there cost about US$1.00 - JA$71.26. The average water use is 11,465.06 gallons a year, and 31.41 gallons a day.
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The country I chose is Egypt. The main source of water in Egypt is the Nile river witch also happens to be the longest river in the world. An Egyptian uses 1055 cubic meters per year. The usable water in Cairo is most areas only get water for three hours a day and some areas get no pipe water. The quality of the water is nowhere near as close to good as it is here in Elizabeth City. Two large bottled waters could sale for about a dollar.
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ReplyDeleteThe country I chose was Iraq. The people of Iraq spend an average of 95 cents on a 1.5 liter bottle of water. People of Iraq get their water from streams and rivers and it is purified by plants or smaller purification systems. Sometimes it isn't purified at all. It is complicated to determine water usage due to the variation of water in different ares.
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ReplyDeleteThe Country I Choose is South Africa. This country have been blessed with an abundance of riches, from gold to platinum and diamonds, but unfornately it faces a shortage in the most vital of all resources... Water. The country is among the driest of Earth with an average rainfall of about 18 inches a year.South Africa has no navigable rivers, and the total flow of all its rivers is less than half that of Zambezi River, which flows from a country called Angola to the Indian Ocean in Mozambique, and provides some hydroelectric power to South Africa. To make matters worse, the local geology of hard rocks means there are few exploitable aquifers, and the country's numerous artificial lakes are subject to relatively high evaporation.
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The country i chose is Russia, they get their water from a Water Supply System. The people of russia spend on average 200 pounds($322) for water, 248 gallons per residents a day. They get water from inlets, pumping stations, water preparation and purification stations, water supply networks and water sanitation stations. They are cleaned at the stations.
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The country I chose to research about water was Vietnam. Vietnam has a dense river network, that has about 2360 rivers with a length of more than 10 km. About two thirds of Vietnam’s water resources originate outside the country, making Vietnam capable of water resources decisions made in upstream countries. The rivers also supply a large amount of water, as well as groundwater that comes from aquifers. The cost of water in Vietnam (for a 1.5 liter bottle) is roughly $1.12.
The country I chose is Venezuela they are currently under drought conditions in their area. The average amount consumed is the regular rate of 1 Bolivar (38 cents) for their first 40 cubic meters. (10,568 fluids gallons) 70% of their rural population have access to safe drinking water. They have four different types of water purification processes Boca de Aroa (water capacity Q= 432m3/ h),, Dabajuro (water capacity Q= 189m3/ h), EL TORO (water capacity Q= 216m3/ h), and Los Mitares. (water capacity Q= 270m3/ h)
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The Country I Choose was Peru. The water quality in Peru is a huge issue for the health of the Country. They are buying well water for either drinking or boiling water. The average of a annual gallon per person a year is 132000 gallons. The cost, per load, for treated water taken directly from the Peru Utilities Water
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Purification and sterilizing tablets are usable when you are in remote areas, whether taking water from the natural sources. The first step for the process of increased private sector participation in the water Industy in Peru.
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ReplyDeleteThe country i picked is Germany. They have the sources and purification processes as we do. Such as sinks, wells, springs, ect. Their purification process is water goes through treatment plants. They use on average 131 liters of water and the average bill is 81 euros.
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ReplyDeleteZimbabwe is the country I have chosen. The cost of water is sold by cubic meter and is 40 US cents per meter. In Zimbabwe they are now encouraged to boil the water they drink before they do drink it. This means there are probably very unhealthy germs and bacteria's in their water. There has been a Cholera out brake there and the reported deaths are now up to 473 since August and a total of 11,700 people infected by Monday.
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The country I chose to write about Is Laos. Laos has a pipe system but only 13.4% of the Laos people have use of it. Laos has an annual water movement in pipes of 270 billion cubic meters. The people that don’t have access to the pipe system use about 12 gallons a day. The really do not purify the water they just use it as they find or collect it. There water really isn’t that dirty. Finding .33 liters of water costs the equivalent of 35 cents in American money.
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The country I chose was China. The tap water in China is undrinkable. You must purify the water by boiling it before you can drink it. The average annual gallons used per person is 8,322 gallons, 22.8 gallons are used per person a day. 80% of China’s water resources come from one river basin called the Yangtze. It took 22.5 billion dollars to protect the reservoir and more funding is needed.
The country I researched on was Barbados. The amount of water that Barbados uses in 1 year in 12.7billion gallons per year. The source which Barbadians get water is from pumping water from wells within natural coral aquifers.
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