Is there better access to water sanitation services in rural or urban areas?
Urban Areas
100
Shortening showers by 5 minutes can save enough water for how many people to stay hydrated in a day?
18 people
100
By discharge, this is the largest river in the world
What is the Amazon?
100
The ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of, and in opposition to, external forces like gravity.
What is capillary action?
100
_____nations are tending to increase or maintain their consumption of natural resources, while exporting their footprints to producer, and typically ________ nations.
Rich; poorer
200
MDG target 7c calls for a reduction in the number without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation
50%
200
The amount of water used by the entire campus per year (2014) can be used to fill how many Olympic sized swimming pools?
931 pools
200
This major African river forms in Khartoum where its Blue and White tributaries merge. If measured from its farthest tributary to its mouth, it is the world’s longest river
What is the Nile?
200
A water property defined as the sum of normalities of all multivalent cations. One extreme makes it difficult to wash off soap.
What is water hardness?
200
What is the largest threat to the Mekong River Basin, which provides food and a source of livelihood for over 60 million people?
A series of dams and hydropower projects
300
_____ is defined as the point at which the aggregate impact of all users impinges on the supply or quality of water under prevailing institutional arrangements to the extent that the demand by all sectors, including the environment, cannot be satisfied fully.
What is Water Scarcity
300
California law requires all toilets in homes to be low-flow, typically how many gallons per flush is a low-flow toilet?
1.6 gpf
300
This major North Indian river starts at the Gangotri glacier and flows southeast toward the Bengal Delta.
What is the Ganga?
300
Also known as membrane hyperfiltration, an applied pressure overcomes the osmotic pressure that pushes particles across a semipermeable membrane and separates fresh water from saline water. This process is used for the desalination of water.
What is reverse osmosis?
300
Five examples of major hydrologic systems that are in decline because of inadequate governance are:
The Rhine, Colorado, Nile, Ganges, Amazon
400
Which region has the largest number of water-stressed countries of any region?
Sub Saharan Africa
400
What percentage of water used on campus is for irrigation?
8%
400
This North American river once formed an ecologically productive delta at the northern end of the Gulf of California, but now almost no water reaches that point.
What is the Colorado River?
400
Water is forced upward through the filter with sufficient velocity to suspend the sand grains, freeing the filtered particles for discharge to waste through the wash water trough and valve 4.
What is backwashing?
400
A nation’s acquisition of a large area of land in a developing nation for its natural resources is known as __________. Ex) Saudi Arabia investing in Africa for agriculture, and thereby saving hundreds of millions of gallons of freshwater per year within its own borders
What is Land Grabbing?
500
Poor Indian farmers in Rajasthan, India has faced water shortages and worse because the ____ company has taken so much water from nearby wells and aquifers
Coca Cola
500
How many gallons of water is required to produce 1 pound of beef?
1800 gallons
500
This longest river of Asia is located entirely in the People’s Republic of China. After passing the world’s largest hydroelectric generating plant, it reaches the East China Sea near Shanghai.
What is Yangtze/Chang Jiang
500
A process in organic matter is biodegraded by bringing it in contact with microorganisms in the presence of dissolved oxygen?
What is an activated sludge process?
500
The_________continent contains about ⅓ of the world’s international water basins?