Daily Water Usage VS. France Profile

In this project we had to calculate how much water we used per day. After we did our calculations, we went to the Chicago river with some containers that helped us take water from the river back to the school (we were suppose to carry the number of gallons we use). The purpose was to compare our water usage to another country's and to understand how it feels to carry water for a long distance. I learned how to appreciate the water I have and not waste it.

KIS. MY Daily Usage VS. France Daily Usage. (2013) Internet: Easel.ly

The country I am going to compare my daily usage is France. I use 137 gallons a day and everyone in categories, Hygiene, Consumption,Cleaning and Other. For Hygiene I used 35 gallons (25%)-France used about 20gallons (26%, estimating), for Consumption I used 15gallons (10%)-France used about 20gallons (26%). For Cleaning I used 52 gallons (37%)-France used about 25gallons (32%), for Other I used 35gallons (37%)- France used 12gallons (15%). The similarities that both of us have is that we both used water between 10-60gallons. The difference is that we have different usage in gallons and percentages.

In addition to all of that getting water to one place to the other is hard and heavy you have to walk at a pate were water wont come out from your container or that not much water spills. Relating to the FE we went on it took 30 minutes to walk like 0.3miles carrying water, imagen walking double or more from the source to your house it would probably take 4-7hours in my opinion.

In the 18th century France didn't use that much water, they thought that being dirty was a good thing. They also thought that the air was contaminated and that contaminated air got int heir skin, so the only way they can get un contaminated was to take hot showers. For the reason not to take showers every time they get contaminated they decided to not take a shower and if they did they would use very little water. There was even this guy named Louis XVI only took a shower once in his life and that was on his wedding day.