Exchange Italy Holland April 04 Water

Exchange Italy – Holland April ‘ 04 Water Kathelijn Peerden – Angela Lalli Nicole Hock – Annamaria fattore Michelle Janssen – Emanuela Costantini Eske Lombarts – Federica Muccioli

Dopo 40 giorni si muore di fame, ma ne bastano 5 per morire di sete “proverbio orientale” After 40 days you can die if you don’t eat, but 5 days are enough to die if you don’t drink

World

Water is a very important topic in the world. Around the world there are many water problems that in some way involve each one of us. Here are the most important water facts.

Waterfacts • A child die every fifteen seconds from a disease caused by lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene. • Around four million people die every year from water- related diseases. • Women in Africa and Asia walk an average distance of 6 km a day to collect water. • Half of the world’s developing hospital beds are occupied by victims of unsafe water and sanitation. • Malaria is one of the most critical problems of today in Africa- and elsewhere. Approximately 7000 people die every day from Malaria. Improved sanitation and vector control can break this trend.

Water in the world: People can fourty days without food but ony five days without water. That’s a big problem in a lot of countries. Mostly the people in the south of the world are very poor so they can’t use water. In the world there is a lot of water, but not every country have enough water. There are other countries who have to much water. For example: the Netherlands. Italy also have a lot of water. We have red an article about the Nile in Egypt. The river is very important for the people. The people do everything with the water out the Nile. They take a shower in it and they also drink the water. People in Egypt fight for the water. It’s a very dry country and so there is not a lot of water. That’s the reason why there a lot of wars for water. This is the same with the rivers Zambesi and Gange.

Problems which has to do with water 1. Greenhouse effect less sources in the world, more demands for water People are making the world warmer Solution: lasting energie 2. Desertification the land dries out People are using to much land the climate is changing (greenhouse effect) Solution: save water 1. Irregular divided water sometimes to much water, sometimes less water Weather Solution: plant trees around dikes / build dikes / accept because we can’t do much against the problem

Italy

The water-use in the host-families: Now in Italy it’s raining and that’s not very normal in this season. We live in a village called Roccascalegna and there is a little problem with water: there is a lot of hills and when it rain the water goes down on the ground, near the house and for the people is a problem because there’s a lot of puddles.

• Quantity Angela: Emanuela: • Bottle/tap 1. ) 300 liters 1. ) 100 liter • Cost of one liter • Shower 2. ) Bottle (drinkwater) 2. ) both • Problems 3. ) 20 cent 3. ) 50 cent • Warm up 4. )15 minutes every day 4. ) 15 minutes 4/5 days • Store up/save • Plans for the future 5. ) Only in the winter 5. ) in the summer • Save the water special 6. ) gas (methane) 6. ) in a boiler 7. ) It’s direct 7. ) don’t store water 8. ) the irrigation 8. ) No. . . 9. ) pay attention (saladflower water) 9. ) pay attention

Drinking water

Water waste in Italy Water, like oxygen and food, is a vital necessity, so it should be considered a basic right for human beings and it should be used like a common good. One third of italians hasn’t got a regular and sufficient acces to portable water. In part this is caused by weather, because in hot seasons there is few rain. But the problem is mostly caused by an inadeguate use of teritory and of natural resources. Water resource is used in an eccesive way and with lots of wastes.

Italy is the country of the European Union that gets the highest quality of water person. We occupy the first place on using water for house ( 249 liters person a day ( when they are only needed) Of these 249 liters just 3 liters are used to drink, 30% is used to flush the toilets, another 30% in the washing machine and dishwater, taking a shower or having a bath. It’s been calculated that we use about 18 liters of water per day just letting it flow when we wait for it to get hot. When we talk about agriculture, that in our country wastes between 50 and 60% of all water we have, we are one of the countries that wastes the highest quantity of water to irrigate our lands.

POLLUTION OF SEA CAUSES OF POLLUTION: • Industries rubbish: chimical substances like mercury, chromium, lead. . . etc. • Pesticides and herbicides used in agriculture; • Radio-active rubbishes and nuclear reactors; • Refuse of sewer; • Oil-bearing refuses.

Italy > north/south - In Italy the people buy water in bottles because the water they have at home they don’t like. There are different marks. In 1999 the government of Europe said that the groundwater isn’t good enough to use for drinkwater. That’s the reason why they buy water in bottles. But some of the Italian people are not agree with it, and they say that groundwater is sometimes better than mineraal water. - In north Italy they have 100% water but they use 15% of it. In South Italy they have 50% water and they use everything, but that’s not enough they need more. Also the Islands of Italy haven’t enough. They have 10 -20%. There is a simple reason why the people in North Italy have more water than the people in the South. It’s because they’re more rich.

Environment Abruzzo Lanciano

Le Grotte di Stiffe

CASCATE DI ROSELLO In Abruzzo there is a little town called Rossello. Here is a little oasis, there a lot of plants, animals are protected by WWF. Near this place there are nice, small, high falls. They falls down about 100 metres. On Thuesday we don’t go to this because the weather was bad, it was too slippery. It’s a pity because it must be very beautiful.

The lake of Bomba

Conclusion another project bigger groups more practical nicer go out to see things to help each other. our age the italian language better little groups The interview work harder more things like that (For example: interviews, excursions, a walk through the city and somethings like that. ) the results are better