Group: Group W
Module Title: Skill for Study 2
Assessment Title: Report
Assignment Title: Write a recommendation report in which you compare three possible methods for water provision in arid region of your choice.
Tutor Name: Eve Smith
Student ID Number : 200860469
Date of Submission: Friday 2nd Dec, 2011
Word count: 1668
Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Background 1 3 Options 2
3.1 Desalination 2
3.2 Rain Harvesting System 3
3.3 Damming 3 4 Requirements 4
4.1 Cost 4
4.2 Sustainability 4
4.3 Environmental impact 5
4.4 Social impact 5 5 Compared Options 6
5.1 Cost 6
5.2 Sustainability 6
5.3 Environmental impact 7
5.4 Social impact 7 6 Conclusions 8 7 Recommendation 8 8 Reference 9
Introduction
In some developing country,arid are able to cause poverty and death, so it is important to provide clean, cheap and sustainable water to those residents living in arid area. However to supply water in arid regions can be a great challenge, it should concern about cost, sustainability, environmental impact and social impact. This report will focus on 3 methods of water prevision: Desalination, Rain Harvesting System and Dam. The report aims to analyses 3 different water prevision methods, and find out which is fit the situation in Middle East. In order to achieve this aim, report will compare those 3 methods in 4 requirements: Cost, Sustainability, Environmental Impact and Social Impact and carry out a recommendation to the region of Middle East.
Background
Recently the total population of human being has broken through Seven billion. The booming population has led to a serious problem, the higher the population is, and the more water will be demanded. However, the water resource is limited: though 70.9% of the earth surface is covered by water, only 2.5% of the earth’s water can be directly utilized by human beings (Cech 2010). Fresh water resource is valuable for every one on this planet, especially for