Waterconsumption Comparatives
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- Category: EuroWater
- Published: Friday, 05 June 2015 10:34
- Written by Rüdiger Stenzel
Monthly waterconsumption concept
Monthly waterconsumption (in this document, MW) tell us the amount of water that every family uses during a month. Logicaly, they’re several differencies beetwen countries, and beetwen all the months of the year (it isn’t the same february than july).
About the metodologies and results
The used metodologies present variations. Some of the participants have made the measures in liters (EU, liter as L); other ones in cubic meters (m3; each m3 is equal to 1000 L). By the other hand, some of them have measured waterfootprints from january to december, or of february to february of the next year. You have to make attention to this, when you’re reading our conclusions.
Comparative of monthly waterfootprints
We try to compare water consumption usual of the countries that have participated in the Eurowater 2015 program.
Results for a Northen/South comparative
Here you are the results of the countries that participe in Eurowater 2015.
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MW for a València school (Spain) in m3 |
And two more countries, from the North (the Netherlands and Germany):
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MW for Oude Pekela school (the Netherlands) in liters. |
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MW for Wittmund school (Germany) in liters.
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We can’t extract a clear conclusion about the variation of water consumition, except that the pattern of València (South) is very different than the other two places.
Analyzing differencies in MW at the same country
When we compare the obtained results, the first impression is that they’re a strong oscillation between values, ever in the same country. (We can see it in the next four graphics, all of them are related with only one location.)
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MW of february to february of the next year in different families at Grossefehn (GE). |
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Average MW for different families of Grossefehn school (GE). |
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Average MW for different families of Zespót Szkót school (PO). |
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Average MW for different families of Vestergaardsskolen school (DK). |
Yearly waterfootprint
The Yearly waterfootprint (in this document YW) expresses the amount of water wasted in a natural year. It’s a good parameter to comparate, cause shows clearly the differencies between countries.
In our case, the countries that participated in the event.
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Note the high variability in results, from 400 to around 1375 liters per year (more than 300%).
Drinking Water Values of German Schools
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- Published: Thursday, 04 June 2015 11:00
- Written by Super User
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EU-Values |
KGS Grossefehn |
AvHS Wittmund |
FG Altenburg |
AG Quakenbueck |
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pH |
6,5-9,5 |
7,5 |
7,5 |
8,16 |
7,5 |
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Oxygen |
< 75% |
10% |
20% |
10% |
10% |
Analyse of Drinking Water
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- Published: Thursday, 04 June 2015 10:05
- Written by Super User
Georgaphy of Eastfriesland / Germany
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- Category: EuroWater
- Published: Thursday, 04 June 2015 09:30
- Written by Super User
In East Friesland, it is very flat and there is a lot of water from the North Sea, the many lakes and rivers .The North Sea is famous by the protected Wadden Sea. It can be very dangerous. Some visitors underestimate how fast the water coming. On the coast are dams with a lot of sheep graze on it. Inside the Inland are many farms with pigs, cows or chickens. Everybody can see the big farms with big plow and machines. In Eastfriesland live 465000 people within a radius of 3144.26 square kilometers. Eastfriesland has got the East Frisian Islands (from west to east) Borkum, Juist, Norderney, Baltrum Langeoog, Spiekeroog and Wangerooge. Across the North Sea, there are sometimes floods by big storm.
In Ostfreisland ist es sehr flachen und gibt es viel Wasser von der Nordsee, den vielen Seen und Fluessen .Die Nordsee ist bekannt durch das unter Naturschutz stehende Wattenmeer. Was jedoch sehr gefährlich werden kann, weil manche Besucher das schnell kommende Wasser unterschätzen. An der Küste Ostfrieslands sind meist die Dämme zu sehen wo Schafe drauf grasen. Im Binnenland sind sehr viele Bauernhöfe mit Kühen, Schweinen oder Hühnern. Die landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe sind auch nicht zu übersehen mit ihren großen Äckern und Maschienen. In Ostfriesland leben insgesamt 465000 Menschen im Umkreis von 3144.26 Quadratkilometer. Zu Ostfriesland gehören noch die ostfriesischen Inseln (von Westen nach Osten ) Borkum, Juist, Norderney, Baltrum, Langeoog, Spiekeroog und Wangerooge. Durch die Nordsee gibt es manchmal Überschwemmungen durch große Sturmböhen .
Geography in Valencia
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- Published: Thursday, 04 June 2015 09:20
In Valencia we have a widely diverse landscape with many kilometers of coastline and beaches along the Mediterranean. It is on the east coast of Spain between Cataluña, in the north, and Murcia in the south.The area has both high mountains and plains, wetlands and beaches with large areas of sand .It is a flat community which slowly rises from the sea to the inner part.
The influence of the Mediterranean sea affects the temperature in all the coast producing that the temperature usually increases in summer time but it stays the same the rest of the year .
We have learnt that in the North of Europe, swamps are a part of the landscape. In Valencia the most similar thing is the lagoon called Albufera which is surrounded by kilometers and kilometers of rice fields Water in this lagoon is mixed with water from the sea and it is used to irrigate these crops.
In our area there are not many rivers and most of them have little water although some times, if we have heavy rain during some days , there may be floods in some areas.We think this is due to the lack of trees and roots. Water is not absorbed so that it drags from mountains to valleys . We think more trees should be planted .
Although the mountains in Valencia are high, it is never freezing cold to have snow, so we can not use the water generated by melting. The only water we can use is the one produced by rain, which is not enough.