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WATER for the WORLD 開源助生機
Sunshine Action is
drilling small water wells in the
poor villages around the World.
Each water well is shared by 3-5 poor families, estimate
to benefit from 15-30 people directly, plus irrigation and other
uses.
2011 target : 50 water-wells
耀陽行動
正在全球多個貧困村落開發建造小型水井。
每口井可供水給 3–5個貧困家庭，估計能令
15-30人直接受益，並可作灌溉及其他用途。
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Provide water for washing
供水予洗濯之用
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Provide water for irrigation
供水予灌溉之用
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Provide clean water for human & animal
usage 為人畜提供清潔食水
Of all the water on Earth, only a small
amount is available for us to use:
97.2% of the Earth's
water supply is salt water.
Only 2.8%
is fresh water!
Of the total
supply of water on Earth:
HOW MUCH WATER DOES IT TAKE
TO
·
Brush your teeth? - 1.5
to 3
gallons
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Flush the toilet? -
2 to 4
gallons (each flush)
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Take a shower or bath? - 18 to 26 gallons
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Use the dishwasher? - 8 to 15 gallons
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Wash the car? – 50-80 gallons
Indoors, most of the water a family uses is in the bathroom.
Saving water is important. In the bathroom, the easiest way to
save water are
1)
Shut
off the faucet while you brush your teeth or take shorter
showers.
2) Do
not using the toilet to flush trash.
3)
Installing low-flush toilets and low-flow showerheads can help
save lots of water.
4)
An ultra-low-flush toilet uses just 1.5 gallons per flush
compared to 4 gallons per flush for a traditional toilet.
A
water well is an excavation or structure created in the
ground by digging, driving, boring or drilling to access
groundwater in underground aquifers. The well water is drawn by
an electric submersible pump, a vertical turbine pump, a
hand-pump or a mechanical pump (e.g. from a water-pumping
windmill). It can also be drawn up using containers, such as
buckets, that are raised mechanically or by hand.
In the water world, water is commonly
measured in acre feet. But what is an acre foot? One acre foot
of water can fill one acre of land, approximately the size of a
football field, 1 foot deep. An acre-foot contains 325,900
gallons of water, and can supply the annual indoor and outdoor
needs of one to two urban households.
e-mail:
sunshine@sunshine-action.org
/ Tel:
852-9387-3243
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