World Problems- Solving

Drought
By: Camille Obert, Jacob Kennedy, Hana
Ongwongsakul, Sebastian Zarrehparvar

Drought!
A prolonged period of time where there is an
abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting
from this.

Stats for California

cut water use is 11.5%
two basic methods for breaking the bonds in saltwater:
thermal distillation and membrane separation
past dry periods in California have lasted more than
200 years
people use 80-100 gallons of water a day
water budget priced higher to encourage conservation

More Stats
roughly 70% of an adults body is made up of water
between 70-75% of Earths surface is made up of water
of all the water on Earth, humans only use 2% of this
water

Types of Drought
There are 4 types of drought
1. meteorological-general lack of moisture in weather
2. agricultural-atmospheric moisture is reduced
3. hydrological-deficiency of surface water and ground
water
4. socioeconomic-energy, food, and drinking water are
reduced or threatened by changes in meterorological
or hydrological changes

Causes of Drought
lack of rainfall
global warming
human factors and excessive use
surface water flow

Our Desalination

Function- to turn salt water into fresh drinking water

fresh salt water is heated up into steam
the tank uses the suns energy to heat up the water
if the sun is not shining, we use the heat from the fire
underneath the tank to heat it up
the steam rises and collects into water droplets
water droplets slide down the glass into the tubes
around the bottom of the dome and collect into the
clean water tank

Thanks
For
Watching!