People and Water-Action Project



For our Water class at the GCE Lab School, we learned about water, water usage and the ways people use water for different household uses, like cooking, cleaning, drinking, and hygiene. We also talked about access to water and how not everyone has it easily available to them. To build empathy for people with limited access to water, we were assigned to find a way to carry water from the river to the school. We went to the river and filled buckets, coolers, and bottles of river water, and carried it to our school. This helped build empathy because some people have to walk miles to find water; they can't just turn on the tap for drinking water, and we mimicked that experience for our class.
The next thing we did was study our own water usage for an Action Project, a poster about water and our personal water usage, along with the average U.S individual's and a chosen country's (I chose Japan). The purpose of the poster is to raise awareness about water and water usage in a way that people can easily understand. The first thing we did was filling out what daily activities we partook in that contributed to how much of it we used on USGD's water usage survey. I got estimated results from the website, and it said I used about 108 gallons daily. But after some adjustments (such as dividing the water I use for clothes and dishes by seven days and factoring in water saving appliances), I ended up with 23 gallons as a result. I created a pie chart with my usage in google sheets, and with this information, created a poster depicting my average water usage, along with the average U.S individual's water usage and a chosen country's (Japan). Looking back on the project, it was challenging (to carry water but also to create the poster), but also an interesting experience.There were many steps involved in creating the poster, like calculating how much water I used, multiplying the numbers (like how many times you flush the toilet or brush your teeth), and designing the poster itself.

For many people, carrying water from a water source to a home is a necessary task, sometimes taking hours everyday. When I carried water from the river to school, t took about ten minutes and I use around 23 gallons a day (I carried four liters of water, which equals around one gallon), so it would take me about 230 minutes (about three hours or so) to carry the water I use back to my school.
LKC. My Water Usage-Pie Chart. 2019.
My class. To, Hiu. 2019.

LKC. Water Poster. 2019.

LKC. Water Poster. 2019.



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