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In commemoration of World Water day two days (22 and 23 March) with students participating in the project. The following is a summary of the partial conclusions.

WATER CONSUMPTION AND USE
city of Mar del Plata

City: Mar del Plata-diagnosis.

do something so hard a stone, what thing is soft water.
However, the hard stones are drilled with soft water. (Ovid)

Water in all its forms, has no great respect for the laws of chemistry. Water molecules are out of balance and are difficult to satisfy. Elongate to interfere with any molecule they encounter, pushing the atoms, surrounding and dissolving. Water is the ultimate solvent, wet all elements of the rock starts, and has for life. Before her nothing is certain. There is a container strong enough to hold it. (L. Watson, The Water Planet, 1988).
Left alone, nature provides us with clean water we need for life. As he wrote Norse (1985) "at home glass of water we drink, some of this water has already passed through fishes, trees, bacteria, worms, soil, and many other living things, including people ...." Living systems cleanse water and make it suitable, among other things, for human consumption. Nature acts by itself with an efficiency and perfection can not imagine. The problem, of course, is that the human population has grown too much to allow nature to leave work alone. In our eyes, nature works in the hydrological cycle and water our continuing need to provide a constant water supply to sustain the life, but the water cycle itself is unstoppable, with or without human activity. Nature provides endless supply of water, however, develop and maintain a water supply in good condition requires the coordinated efforts of engineers, scientists, technologists, planners, operators and politicians.
About 40% of the human race does not have adequate access to safe water. It is estimated that water-borne diseases cause the deaths of more than 25 thousand people daily. Safe water

late twentieth century established the first limits restricting the number of organisms in the water fit for human consumption in some cases, water is so polluted by human activities, which is harmful to health, and comes to become the source of some of the diseases we are exposed every day. Each country has different agencies (institutions) who evaluate and control the degree of contamination that have their waters. Water fit for human consumption can be considered safe water or drinking water, according to compliance with the requirements chemical, physical, microbiological and sensory defined by current regulations in each country. Since 1990, the UN has issued 10 formal statements on the Right to Water, and the end of 2002 the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the same organization, through a deal, recognized the fundamental human right to have water safe, saying that "water should be considered a social and cultural, not primarily as an economic good" means all countries that signed the pact must ensure that compliance.
The water that reaches all human beings should be enough to supply the basic needs of themselves and be affordable for all of us, but it should not be used indiscriminately and irrationally. According to 2002 data and from the research work of UNICEF and the Pan American Health Association, has been determined at that time 21.6% of Argentine households lacked not only water but also safe water. According to this investigation, Argentina has been pushed below the rates of provision of safe water in countries like Chile or Uruguay.
is estimated that in the history of Earth, the amount of water has remained constant, but the water quality does not always allow their use for consumption or for industrial, commercial and agricultural.
If all the water on the planet was represented by 1000 liters this would be as follows: 975 liters
is salt water (dearly for purification).
18 liters in glaciers and ice. (Decreasing by increasing the temperature of the planet as part of this water becomes salty).
6.15 liters of fresh water remaining is distributed: 4.24 liters for agriculture, 1.42 liters for the industry and only 0.49 liters available for drinking, with or without treatment.
If not rationalize their use affects not only quantity but also the quality of it, because a mis-used water may become water available for consumption (safe water).
is water is a value that should care for and used properly. Water is always present in our lives but we do not perceive.

Mar del Plata in the aquifers are the only available sources of drinking water (recharged by rainwater filtering). The waste water goes to sea (transforming in salt water) hoping to meet again the water cycle to return to the aquifer. So irrational use leads to lack of resource at certain times of year and expanding the network of safe water. A large segment of the population access to water through the official service (network). This is a great advantage for their quality of life, but this advantage to be added the responsibility to use it rationally, because if not, it happens that with increasing demand in the summer the population increases, the pressure is not enough and there are supply problems, especially in outlying areas, sectors end of the distribution network.
In the field work for 6 years we have found that water consumption in our city of nearly 400 L / p / d (liters per person per day), including networked families and those with well . The data relating to network clients to reach nearly 600 L / p / d. All this is far from the 200 L / p / d which advises WHO and quantity to perform all activities without water deprivation.
The mains water consumption at present in our city, three times that estimated by WHO. Which brings us to the conclusion that hotels, buildings, resorts and general public, use this water network in an unbalanced way. In winter, the permanent population also makes abuse of resource paths for example cleaning or washing the car with hoses open all the time. This occurs because of lack of awareness or because they do not care as long as they open the tap water flows only when the problem arise when I opened the tap water does not exit. This was evidenced in 2009 when the accident occurred in the water distribution tank Mitre Square that left without water for a very important sector of the population for several days, then upset the neighbors too, expressed their discontent. Currently in the city exceeds consumption suggested by the WHO to the point that is almost 3 times higher. This can not continue indefinitely, we must change habits and customs. E
mong some examples of typical expenses we mention it:
100 L to wash dishes for 4 people, leaving the tap open while performing.
70 L for a 5-minute shower.
200 L to take a shower dip.
20 L to brush your teeth with tap open.
500 L to leave open the hose while the car wash (there are 42 buckets of water)
34000 L imodoro year by a loser.
also reported excess consumption in the industrial water by over-abstraction and ill-treatment of effluents is not complying with the law. In the water for agricultural use by using traditional irrigation methods. In the water turistmo and recreation, the impact is associated with excess consumption in hotels and resorts.

Consequences: In addition to losing the sustainability of the resource, leaving insufficient time for recovery, generates excessive consumption of non-availability of water network peripheral areas due to lack of pressure in the pipes, and the restrictions on expanding the distribution network can not take much water is already removed. As water is pumped with pumps, an increased energy expenditure (in times when applying for a low power consumption) that increasing costs and also taking environmental impacts.
The lack of safe water increases extremely the risk of disease, with families who do not have it extra costs of medicines, which sometimes can not afford.

range of responsibilities and stakeholders:
The responsibility begins at home becoming aware about the consequences of our use of water in our homes
"The next level of responsibility can be awarded to people as a whole (society). Lack of commitment associated with the lack of awareness. "In the third instance
industries, businesses and municipalities (government). They must optimize resource use and regulate the use to avoid waste due to irrational use
the problem that stands out is the lack of pressure in pipes that affects homes and buildings with an additional expenditure of energy in transport and distribution to meet excessive demand. It also limits the extension of networks.
We take and bring awareness to the entire community se debe cambiar los habitos en el manejo del agua en nuestros hogares.


Como afecta el cambio climatico.
El uso excesivo de agua genera un gasto de energia extra para la extracción y distribución de una demanda excesiva. En nuestra ciudad la empresa de agua es uno de los mayores consumidores de energía electrica. Las sequias producen menor disponibilidad y mayor demanda de algunos sectores. Las inundaciones producen problemas de contaminación de las fuentes por el arrastre de contaminación.El calor ocasiona la evaporación del agua genera corrientes de aire capaces de llevar vapor a otras regiones problema que puede intensificarse con el calentmiento global mudando la distribución del agua en el planeta,es decir habrá more rain and more drought in different areas. Increased pollution from storm drains to reduce pollutants are concentrated flow.
The consequences may include problems salud.Falta safe water.
septic tanks (contaminated the ground water nearest the surface.

Our aim should be to ensure that the population be made aware that water for consumption is a value and a right for all people and we generated the obligation to use it properly . Rationality and Responsibility and Respect (3R).
We must help so that everyone knows more about it by a series of lectures in public places, schools, building societies, and providing informational brochures I primers, as well as exclusive material to different categories (hotels, spas). Pledge campaign.