Groundwater/Land Subsidence
80% of ___ is caused by ___.
What is 80% of Land Subsidence is caused by the over-pumping of groundwater?
This device tracks your water bill
What is your meter?
______ fabric produces the most plastic
Polyester
Climate ______ causes more infrequent rains which become harsher for San Diego’s Storm Water system to handle
What is Change?
The filtering of salt water into drinkable water.
What is Desalination
Land Subsidence is…
What is a gradual settling or sudden sinking of the Earth's surface due to removal or displacement of subsurface earth materials?
This is the unit of measurement used when calculating your water bill
What is Cubic Feet?
Microplastics can be as big as ____________
A pencil easer
Delaying _______ results in poor stormwater regulation
Delaying Repairs (for the Storm Water systems)
Desalination plants increase climatic effects when using a lot of costly fossil fuels.
What is Energy Intensive
California policy that attempts to divert water back into aquifers
What is California Water Management Plan?
This is the common name for 748 gallons of water
What is (HCF) Hundred Cubic Feet?
This body of water in San Diego has the most amount of microplastics
Mission bay
As San Diego grew, it covered land with concrete and asphalt which in turn made the ground not able to absorb the water
What is Urbanization?
Substantial amounts of discharge created from the desalination plant.
What is Brine
The four human causes of land subsidence are…
Mining, oil extraction, gas extraction, and groundwater pumping
Your bill goes to this department
what is SDCWA (San Diego County Water Authority)?
wastewater treatment plants filter out all microplastics (Yes or no)
no
________ leads to a build up of pollution and makes transportation harder
What is Flooding?
The process in which water goes through a filter so small only water molecules can pass through.
What is Reverse Osmosis
San Diego is at risk for land subsidence because of…
High groundwater extraction rates, droughts, and rising sea levels
The 3 water uses that contribute to your whole water bill are...
What is Drinking Water, Storm Water, Wastewater?
We eat _____ credit cards worth of plastic a year
52
Permeable _________ allow the ground to absorb water
What are Permeable Pavements?
The Carlsbad desalination plant that has treated more than 100 billion gallons in the past seven years.
What is the Claude “Bud” Lewis carlsbad desalination plant