Author Question: How does the volume of water that can be harvested from campus rooftops (question c) compare to the ... (Read 52 times)

Beheh

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How does the volume of water that can be harvested from campus
  rooftops (question c) compare to the mean annual well production
  in the subsidence zone (question )? Write your answer in terms of
  a percentage of annual well production. (Hint: Divide the answer to
  question c by the answer to question  and multiply the result by .) What will be an ideal response?



Question 2

For what purposes do you think this harvested water could be used? What will be an ideal response?



mcinincha279

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Answer to Question 1

(8,580,000 gal  13,610,937,600 gal) x 100 = 0.063

Answer to Question 2

Irrigation, washing cars, cooling.



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