WaterWater

FACTS• 97,4% of the worldwide water amount is salt

water (1.348.000.000 km³)

• 2,0% are ice, glacier and in the atmosphere

• 0,6% is useful drinking water (8.062.000 km³) - from this the agriculture needs 70%

Why is water so valuable?Without Water...• a human can only live 2 days• the plants and animals can not grow which

means that we would have nothing to eat• There would be no clouds, no snow and no rain• we could produce hardly anything (no jeans...)We need water to...• produce bread, beer...• produce electricity and atomic energy• mining copper and iron ore…

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water footprint- a mass for the virtual water consumption from a human in a region

(virtual water is the water that we need to produce something)

virtual waterbeer 1 l 300 liter

tea 1cup 35 liter

coffee 1cup 140 liter

paper 1 kg 750 liter

wheat 1 kg 1.100 liter

cotton T-Shirt 1 2.000 liter

egg 1 kg 4.500 liter

rice 1 kg 5.000 liter

beef 1 kg 15.000 liter

standard car 1 300.000 liter

bread 1slice 90 liter

milk 1 glass 0,2 200 liter

shoes 1pair 8.000 liter

orange 100 g 50 liter

tomato 70g 13 liter

hamburger 1 (150g) 2.400 liter

orange juice 1 glass 0,2 170 liter

potatoes 100g 25 liter

energy distributionhydro power

Water the ‘blue goldblue gold‘• Water is, alongside oil, a hard-

fought resource• Countries with a lot of drinking

water are often industrialized and rich countries

developing countries normally have unclean

drinking water

• 80% of all infections

• 30% of all deaths

....are because of unclean water

• In Germany over 95% of the households are connected to a sewage plant

developed countries

The Human right: waterThe Human right: waterThe committee for economic, social and cultural rights of the United Nations established in 2002: ‘every human being has the right to have enough clean and affordable water’

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