Name: Michael Henry Sadiwa Program Code: BCS14

Module 9: Issues on Water

Determination of Individual Direct Water Consumption

Get your latest household water bill. Using your water bill, determine your water consumption
volume per month by using the table below:
Household Convert to Your direct water
Water liters Number of consumption per month
Consumption (1 m3 = 1,000 household (divide total liters by
in m3 liters) members number of members)

Example 150 150,000 5 30,000 liters

Answer 36 36,000 4 9,000 liters

Processing Questions

a. What is the source of your household water (ground water or surface water)? Local water
distributors usually source its water from ground water and regional water distributors like
Maynilad and Manila Water usually source its water from Angat Dam or Laguna Lake
which are surface water.

The source of our household water is surface water that came from Laguna Lake. Our water distributor is
Maynilad.

b. What is your daily water consumption? 9,510 gallons of water

per day.
What is estimated yearly consumption? 3,471,150 gallons of
water per year.
In your lifetime (about 80 years)? 277,692,000 gallons of water
in 80 years.

c. Create an analogy of your annual direct water consumption (e.g. my annual consumption
is equivalent to two Olympic size swimming pools). Give two analogies.

1. Annual water consumption is equivalent to the amount of water that would fill 525 tanker
trucks.

2. Annual water consumption is equivalent to the amount of water that would fill 1,814,400 500
mL water bottles.