Friday Week Eleven

...some questions...

1. Continuing on material from the Water Bill Homework Assignment... Why did water use in athletic building and facilities increase sharply during the fifth billing period of 2013? Why did water use in non-academic building and facilities increase sharply during the fifth billing period of 2013? Did we effectively explain the high per resident water use at Kappa Alpha? Did we effectively explain the high per resident water use at Kappa Delta? Did we effectively explain the high per resident water use at the Lee House?

2. Over the past few decades, is installed global desalination capacity increasing, decreasing or remaining relatively constant? What is the difference between membrane and thermal desalination? Is one growing more rapidly than the other (if so, which one)? Is one better than the other? What are the specific characteristics of a country that allow it to managing its water resource challenges with large desalination capacity?

3. Where is Bangladesh? What are its hydrologic, physiographic, demographic, and development characteristics that intensify its water resource management challenges? What are the specific water resource management challenges faced by Bangladesh? What was the first (historically) challenge? How was the first challenge managed? How did the management of the first challenge create (or exacerbate) a new challenge)? Why are these challenges more profound in the southern 1/3 of the country? What are some of the ongoing barriers to managing water resources challenges in Bangladesh?

Slides from today are on Sakai.