The United Nation’s world water development report, Water for a Sustainable World (2015), illustrated the 55% increase of global water demand by 2050. Without effective countermeasures, the word will encounter a 40 percent shortage of water within two decades.
In Canada, water waste is the potential trigger of water shortage.
Despite the great abundance of reserved water, Canada has a fixed average precipitation around 537 millimeter per year, less than 1/3 of Japan and 1/2 of the Great Britain (Average Precipitation, n.d.). Four years ago, Canada’s water consumption is approximately 1,130 cubic meters per capita, which is 2 times of Japan, 3 times of Germany and 9.5 times of the Great Britain; four decades …show more content…
While about one tenth of all water withdrawn served municipal purpose, Canadian families on average consume twice the water as families in other industrialized nations. An average Canadian household uses about 26,000 liters water per month and produces approximately 15,600 liters of greywater (Water Consumption, 2016). The term greywater represents the intermediate product between the “white water” from water tab and the “black water” used in toilet, which refers to the gently used water from bathing, cleaning, and laundry. As the main contributor of indoor water wastage, greywater has lower contaminants concentration than black water and raw sewage. If the quality is appropriate to water need, greywater can be recycled to serve beneficial purposes. In most cases, greywater is a suitable substitute of fresh water for toilet flushing and landscaping (Greywater Recycling, …show more content…
As water reserve gradually decreases over the increasing population, water waste may trigger potential water shortage and emerge as a threat to Canada’s industrial and agricultural development. In order to solve household water wastage, the support of an experienced and sophisticated engineering institution is vital. Through weeks of research we found that you and your company to be the most insightful and capable in terms of potential hazard elimination. We also have great respect to your reputation of expertise and dedication to our nation’s development. We the GE121 Design Group 12, therefore entrust this significant problem and our hope in your