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All Five Operation Community Water Footprint Handouts in One Document

All Five Operation Community Water Footprint Handouts in One Document

The Safe Drinking Water Foundation believes that everyone should understand how their local tap water is treated and delivered and have an idea of the cost of those processes. By ‘cost’ we are not talking about money but about hidden costs to the environment and human health impacts.

Research Questions: What You Need to Find Out Handout

Research Questions: What You Need to Find Out Handout

How much raw (fresh) water is brought into the drinking water treatment facility?
How much treated water is put into the distribution system?
These values should be given in units of volume/time.

Calculations: Calculating the Water Footprint of Your Local Drinking Water Handout

Calculations: Calculating the Water Footprint of Your Local Drinking Water Handout

The information that you gathered through your research can be used to calculate the water footprint of your local drinking water. Throughout this series of calculations we will be talking about the water footprints of both processes and products.

Analysis Part 1: Analyzing the Water Efficiency of Your Local Water Treatment and Distribution Systems Handout

Analysis Part 1: Analyzing the Water Efficiency of Your Local Water Treatment and Distribution Systems Handout

You have calculated the water footprint of your community and its tap water using real information that you found from your research but you may now be wondering how different these footprints might have been if some things in your community or at your treatment facility were different. You can use the calculations process you learned to test different changes and see how they could affect your footprint values.

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