No Matter your Occupation, Water Conservation is your Obligation.

   This class is called  water class.This class is about the awareness of water using math and science. Comparing our personal water usage to places that are dealing with the water crisis. We learned places around the world including America that had a water crisis. We also had a hands on experience on how people have a long walk to water.

  We first started off  by guessing how much water we think we use in a day. I thought I wasted 3 gallons of water a day but little did I know I was not even close. We moved on to calculating what we use or do in a daily bases that involves water and my total was 70.95 gallons a day. My total consumption of water shocked me in a way of sympathy. As we were also learning about our individual water usage we also learned about different places around the world who are living a water crisis trying to survive while i'm over here not even thinking about water at all. As we got a closer look in our nearest water source I found out mine is 12.4 miles away. The time it would take me to take my daily water usage to my nearest water source it would be 62411.59 hrs. Once I got this information I started to think what if we had a drought in Chicago and with the same type of resources as the family from Bolivia in the documentary I would literally be on the edge of surviving.

 The country I chose was Mexico. Mexico daily water usage is 98.8003 gallons. My daily water usage compared to Mexico is lower by 27.85 gallons. I kinda expected to have a lower water usage knowing it does get pretty hot compared  to Chicago so I think water is a more necessity. My FE experience made me connect with our learning in another level. I came in n this experience motivated to carry a lot of water and wanting muscles by the end. Sadly I did not complete any of my goals but I did give major respect for people doing this. Once we started walking it felt like I was in a competition with the water to see who can get annoyed the quickest. It took me a long time to carry it all the way to the corner break time. I tried many times to attempt different ways of carrying my bucket but failed. That was when I traded with zac and he started to also have a fight with a bucket while I was fine with carrying his one gallon bucket. Lastly I was just happy it was over with and only had to experience this for few minutes as many people can't say that themselves as this is their life.

GA, (2016) No Matter your Occupation, Water Conservation is your Obligation.