Term 3 Reflection

Huge Toad - Newspaper Article

My Contraption

My contraption is called a water distillery and it desalinates water, the water could be dirty water or salt water. To make this work you will need a stove top or a gas stove top and set like a metal cup, pot or a kettle on top. Then you will need to before you set it on you need to connect a pipe from the top of the kettle and the other side of the pipe into a glass, cup or a water drum, make sure before you boil you are boiling the kettle at 100 degrees celsius.  

To make this you will need :

• Pipe
• Salt water
• Water drum
• Kettle or a pot
• Stove top or a power point
• And a surface for the water drum to sit, you could also use a cup or a paint tin, can or any type of material for the water to travel to.

Problems and Soloutions

Problem                                                               Solution

In Dubai there is a lot of water but most of it you can’t drink because of how dirty and polluted it is.	You can use sea water and boil or clean it so you can drink it, most of the time they use too much water to like water gardens and just things like that.
They have a problem with water like they don’t have enough to supply to everyone, they can supply it, they don’t have a lot of it to supply.	To prevent this Abu Dhabi has set up a groundwater monitoring system and recycling by irrigating lawns.
Before, groundwater was the only source of water supply. The water was very scarce and most of the aquifers are highly saline. (Sodium Chloride solution, like salt.)	Nearly a sixth of the world’s population is affected by water scarcity, that could grow to 1.8 billion by 2025, Dubai are using a minimum 500+ litres of water a day. I think maybe they could use water when it’s desperate and include sea water more.
More than 70% of water in Dubai goes to irrigation for agriculture, agriculture is a huge thing in middle eastern countries because they need to farm a lot of crops to keep enough food for when they run out.	Maybe they could cut down on farming a lot of crops but still farm but only farm so many paddocks of food and or crops. They could install a slow irrigator so they aren’t using so much water at once, that way they are using water but not a lot.

Water Scarcity In Dubai

Scenario

I went to bed at 1:30am due to the new years countdown. As I got into bed I was lying there thinking what it would be like on new years day. I quickly remembered something, new years day, shoot I have my friends birthday sleepover I quickly jumped out of bed ran downstairs and grabbed a card from Mum’s office. As I lay in bed writing in the card with my dog Bentley, I could hear loud music and loud voices coming from the garage, There was still a party in the backyard. I had just finished the card when I heard Mum come upstairs, I quickly switched off my lamp put the card on my side table and went to sleep. By the time Mum got to my room I was sound asleep.

New years day rolled over and I woke from my awesome sleep, immediately I went to my bathroom and got in the shower. After about 5 minutes I could feel the shower getting colder and less water coming out. I quickly switched off the shower and headed over to the sink to brush my teeth, as I turned on the tap I found that there wasn’t much water coming out. So I brushed my teeth for about 1 minute, I didn’t want to waste any water. Finally it was time to go to the sleepover and I didn’t have a gift for her so I grabbed the card and my bag and got in the car and drove to her house.

It was sadly time to go back home and when I got there Mum and Dad were waiting for me in the living room, as I grabbed the door handle of the front door Mum and Dad were right there, I asked them what was wrong and they said we have no water, I was puzzled as to what had happened.

In Dubai there is not very much fresh and clean water but a lot of sea water. They could come up with a way to clean the water so they have more fresh water to, water the gardens, drink it, use a dishwasher, washing machine, take a shower, run a bath and things to keep you hygenic and so you can use it to cook and drink.

Dubai Paragraphs

Dubai is in Asia, It has a population of 2.503 Million people which is about half the amount of people who live here, in New Zealand. United Arab Emirates is another name for Dubai, They speak arabic and their currency is called Dirham. In Dubai they have a really famous tower called Burj Khalifa which is the arabic name for “Khalifa Tower” and is roughly 828 metres tall, which is over double the height of the Eiffel Tower.

Dubai is a very developed country, their climate ranges over 20-30 degrees celsius at night and 40-45 degrees in the day. Our highest temperature here in New Zealand is roughly around 42.4 degrees celsius which is the same as 108.3 degrees Fahrenheit. In Dubai they have many foods and restaurants like Mcdonald's and KFC but they sell different foods than what we sell. Dubai has many different menu’s and foods.