Terms
Residential Use
Industrial Use
Agriculture Use
Management Project Goals
100
Safe to drink
What does potable mean?
100
8%
What percent of water is used by households for activites?
100
Europe & North America
Where does the highest percentage of industrial water use occur?
100
When water is depleted thafrom the industrial use; farmland becomes less productive
What causes water to become more expensive?
100
bringing in water to make a dry area habitable, creating a reservoir for recreation or drinking water, or generating electric power
What are the water management project goals?
200
Organisms that cause illnessess or diseases
What are pathogens?
200
1/3 of water
How much water is used for landscaping?
200
Europe
What is the only continent that uses water for industry use than agriculture
200
Evaporation, seepage, & runoff toward water conservation
What causes water loss in agriculture?
200
A structure built across a river to control the river's flow
What's a dam?
300
Is a method of providing plants with water from sources other than direct precipitation
What irrigation?
300
To reduce the amount of water loss to evaporation
Why do people water their lawns at night?
300
19%
What is the percentage for the industry accounts of water used world wide?
300
It's a system that delivers small amounts of water directly to plant roots by using perforated tubing.
What is the drip irrigation system?
300
20%
what percent of the world's electrical energy is powered by hydroelectrical dams?
400
The process of removing salt from salt water
What is desalination?
400
Xeriscaping: it involves designing a landscape taht requires a minimum water use
What is another way to save water and what does it involve?
400
By returning it's water back to the source but warmer
How do power- plants support water?
400
Water is released as needed & at a controlled rate
How is water released?
400
Huge canals that brought water from the mountains to the dry areas of France & Spain
What are aqueducts?
500
An artificial lake
What is a reservoir?
500
Desalination & transporting fresh water
What are 2 solutions to save water?
500
Computer chips & semiconductors
Vast amounts of water are required to produce what?
500
Businesses recycle water, and use it again.
What does businesses do instead of discharging used water?
500
It slows down & deposits some of the sediments it carry
What happens when a river enters a reservoir?
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