This Monday, myself along with two other classmates (Isak from Sweden and Millie from the UK – not just classmates also best friends ever… who I forgot to mention in a previous blog and may have offended so now need to make up for it here :)…) will be performing an experiment for our current class: global survival and environmental issues. For one day, we will attempt to live off the minimum water supply suggested as necessary for survival: 25L. This includes not only drinking water, but also water used in the shower, washing hands, dishes, etc. It will certainly be a challenge, and the goal of our experiment is to attempt to reduce our intake of water, due to the current water crisis occurring in most under-developed countries.
This project is our final assignment for the current course I am in, and has been appropriately titled a “deepening project”, in order to deepen our understanding of a specific issue facing the world, and making an attempt to change the way we live our lives to help improve the current state of our environment.
We will be keeping a blog of our results and observations if anyone is interested:
I will be writing a followup to this blog, as well, after the day with limited water!
We have been researching the differences in water supply between Sweden and Ethiopia (what we have deemed the two extremes of the water crisis), and it is unbelievable how different the availability of water is… in Ethiopia, out of 85 million people, 49 million have no water. This compares to the 9 million people of Sweden, all with access to clean, safe water. Also, Sweden’s biggest problem is reducing their over-use of water. This project will certainly prove to be a test of whether or not we can survive on a limited amount of water, seeing as we all come from countries with a big problem of over-using water! Stay tuned…
peace, love, and water
Location: jonkoping, sweden
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