WATER SUSTAINABILITY

Water sustainability

Water sustainability

Introduction

In the last 40 years, sustainability has developed into a widely used and important concept. At its core lies a simple idea: future generations should (or have a right to) find the same opportunities and resources as were provided to the current generation. Critics have dismissed such notion as noble but impossibly vague, and students of the Earth's ecosystem have struggled to generate clearer, more specific, and ultimately operational guidelines for sustainability. Water sustainability and conservation refer to a set of ideas and strategies orientated toward making less water do more. The access use of “meat” is not going to be sustainable, as it takes around 20,000 liters of water to approximately 500grams of meat, while on the other hand only 100 liters of water is required to grow 500grams of grains. Thus, water sustainability and conservation is about both increasing the efficiency of every unit of water used in all spheres domestic, industrial, and agricultural also using less water overall. After decades of blind faith in “supply-side” solutions (ever-larger dams, etc.), policy makers now prefer to focus their energies on reducing demand across the entire range of users. The British government's strategy for water provision published in 2008, Future Water, talks about revising policies to encourage conservation behavior, including altering architectural and planning codes, changing the way water services are priced and regulated, and investing in consumer education. In the future, water quality may be expected to deteriorate significantly (especially in many densely populated areas of our planet), so the actual availability of pure water may become limited. Moreover, water resources are very unevenly distributed across Earth. There are large differences in supply and demand even within a given country or continent.

Research methodology

The methodology and research can be conducted with one of the two research methods: Qualitative Approach or Quantitative Approach. However, a research in this context depending on both quality and quantitative research as the data being collected is in the form of ideas, opinions, and statistical figures. Apart from being categorized by whether being qualitative of quantitative approaches, all researches can be based on some underlying assumption about what constitutes 'valid' research. (Tashakkori 2005, Pp. 13-46)All these various other aspects of research classifications will be discussed.

Qualitative Approach

Qualitative research approach will focus on extracting data about how different research experts have written and conducted different researches on the underline subject “water sustainability”. Thus, qualitative method of research attempts to gather information that cannot be measured or quantified. The qualitative research will provide useful but nonstandard data for the research work.

Quantitative research

Quantitative research will focus on the information gathering in meaning full statistical figures. The quantitative methodology is one way of examining the data in a scientific, or more specifically in digital form, generally using tools from the field of statistics. Quantitative Methods are used to explore the elements of the research problems which are represented by numerical or exponential models. That is, there is clarity between the research elements that make up the problem, it is ...