Water Footprints – exercise 2
This is harder than the first exercise, in that you have larger, annual numbers to absorb and also some calculations to make! Good luck!
These links are for you when you’ve finished, in case you’d like to do some reading, some grammar – or maybe just go back to the Home Page?
1. [Match]
Can you link the products and activities with their water footprints?
(A running tap = a tap with water running out of it. We use the verb ‘run’ about various supplies – eg “I’ll leave the central heating running (= on)” ‘She’s just running a bath’ = She’s turned the taps on to fill the bath with the water. The word ‘running’ is used of water meaning ‘flowing’.
NB DEFRA (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) calculates that leaving the tap running while you brush your teeth wastes 6 litres of water a minute.
The water footprint of milk production is second only to beef, so requires a vast amount of water to produce. This is due to the water required to grow feed and for the animals to drink.
The statistic that is given is that the average UK resident has a cotton WF of 211 litres a day, equivalent to flushing your loo 20 times a day. You had to multiply this daily amount by 365 to arrive at this figure – or at least, realise that was what someone else had done!
Citrus fruit has a very high footprint, exceeded only by (topped only by) bananas and grapes.)
Answers for Quiz [1].
- 1. Making 3 daily cups of tea
(correct) - 2. The worldwide production of wheat (correct)
- 3. A chicken (correct)
- 4. The Spanish tomato industry (correct)
- 5. Brushing your teeth under a running tap. (correct)
- 6. Milk (correct)
- 7. The average Briton who buys and wears cotton shirts. (correct)
- 8. Grapes (correct)
- 9. Cheese produced in India. (correct)
- 10. Putting a daily wash in the washing machine. (correct)
- 11. Beef (correct)