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Consciousness actions on How to save and protect water. Name : Catarina Oliveira, Patrícia Rumor Class : 4I Nr : 427411, 427511 Module: 8- Água Subject : AMART. Introduction. This work will help you how to save and protect water and its importance.
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Consciousness actions on How to save and protect water Name: Catarina Oliveira, Patrícia Rumor Class: 4I Nr: 427411, 427511 Module: 8- Água Subject: AMART
Introduction This work will help you how to save and protect water and its importance. How can wesavewater in order to have a betterandcleanerworld.
Definitionofwater The word water comes from the latin aqua, it’s an odourless, insipid and discoloured substance, formed by two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
Curiosities • Water is the component that appears in greater abundance in the earth's surface, it covers 71% of the planet. • It is vital for all known forms of life. • Wateronearth moves continuallythroughthewatercycleofevaporationandtranspiration, condensation, precipitationandrunoff, usuallyreachingthesea.
Curiosities • 2/3 of our planet’s surface is covered with water but only 0.6% is drinking water. • The remaining 97% of the planet’s water is seawater, 2% is in glaciers and icebergs.
Water in nature It can be presented in three possible states: Solid: Snow, Ice and Hail Gas: As water vapour, it is invisible and it can be found in the atmosphere. Liquid: Oceans, rivers and seas. Rain, clouds and groundwater.
Waterconsumption in Portugal • Water consumption in Portugal is estimated at approximately 7 500 000 000 m3/year in Agricultural, Industrial and Urban sector.
Waste of water by the three sectors • Not all water demand by sector is actually used, there is a significant part associated with inefficiency and loss of use on water that is actually captured.
Curiosity: • Of all the water that is consumed at home, more than 75% is used in the bathroom. • A discharge of flushing in a western country uses the same volume of water that an inhabitant of a developing country consumes, on average, in an entire day for their hygiene, for drinking, cleaning and cooking.
Water is a molecule formed by: A Oxigénio e Hidrogénio. Oxygen and Hydrogen. B Oxigénio e Dióxido de Carbono Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide C Noneoftheabove.
Howmuchwateristhereonearth? A 81% B 71% C 36%
Thephysicalstatesofwater are: A Solid, liquidandgas B Solidandliquid C Noneoftheabove.
Using the water of washing the vegetables for watering plants is a way of saving water. True False
Two ways of saving water in industryare: • Turn off the water while soaping hands and brushing teeth. Use the washing machine only with a full load A • Put 1.5l bottle full of sand inside of the toilet cistern. If you notice a hose and faucet to pour water do not close the tap. • . B • Put 1.5l bottle full of sand inside of the toilet cistern. Use automaticwater stop- cocks. C
Correct 5 1 3 4 2
Wrong 5 4 1 3 2