1. Now, find out how much water your family uses in a day?

Question

List all the activities for which you use water in a day. Discuss with your family members about the amount of water used in cooking, cleaning, in irrigating plants, drinking and other activities. Now find out how much water your family uses in a day.

1. Now, find out how much water your family uses in a day?

2. Now, divide this amount by the number of members in your family, to calculate amount of water used daily by one member.

3. How many people live in your village or city and how much amount of water will be needed for whole village or city in one year? Find out.

4. What do you see?

Answer 1

1. 

S.No.	Activity	Water
1	In drinking water	1 bucket
2	In tooth brushing	1/2 bucket
3	In shower	5 bucket
4	In washing clothes	8 bucket
5	In clearing dishes	3 bucket
6	In toilet	5.1/2 bucket
7	In cleaning floors	4 bucket
8	In cooking food	2 bucket
9	In watering plants	4 bucket
10	Any other activity	2 bucket

 

2. 35 buckets.

3. Members of the family = 5

Total amount of water used = 35 bucket Water used per member = 35/5 = 7 bucket

4. Total members in our village = 450. If per member used 7 bucket water, then. Water required in one day for 450 members = 450 x 7 = 3250 buckets Amount of water in one year = 3250 x 365 = 1186250 buckets

5. You will see that pieces of ice float on water due to decreased density of ice.