NUCLEAR PASTA

Corum | Space for Change

SOLUTION FOR WATER STRESS AND SOCIAL İNJUSTICE

High-Level Project Summary

Water is the basic need of everyone, but access to water is more limited, especially in countries with low socio-economic status. This creates social injustice. Our task is to find a solution to them. First of all, we designed a Water Treatment and Sanitation Plant and supported it with computer programs. And our second goal was to provide trainings on water use to areas experiencing water scarcity.At the same time, we suggest that countries with high socio-economic status provide temporary assistance to other countries. (The reason for our request for temporary assistance is that the receiving country does not become dependent on the donor country and manages its own water)

Link to Project "Demo"

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hWuGLR_SkhT8gGpcz-x-PYnbQqai65ZW/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115838042268911867437&rtpof=true&sd=true

Link to Final Project

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18DijWLK1YNJT0VNnBtjpbClpIhGUggZF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115838042268911867437&rtpof=true&sd=true

Detailed Project Description

This is our website. You can learn details about our project from here.

http://nuclearpasta.xyz/

This is our project's(WTSF,WATER TREATMENT AND SANITATION FACILITIES) design

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DwklW2buQMP6VTxPnAeEXsPFZ_HLQ3tA/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13vvJmLmQcooDLmQIBqKpiHYJeiGOobLP/view?usp=sharing

(in our interviews, we understood that:

-many girls are not sent to school because they have to walk miles to get water

- too many diseases and viruses are transmitted due to water shortage

- hygiene is almost zero due to the use of communal toilets and bathrooms

The concept of social injustice and the concept of water scarcity are in themselves hard to bear. Imagine experiencing these two problems at the same time: DISASTER. Water scarcity, which has increased in severity and effect over the years, is a common problem for all of us, but this problem mostly causes social injustice by giving more damage to countries with low socio-economy. We have prepared a project that can provide the best solution to these problems with the help of NASA data.

"NASA is in a good position to assess droughts because we have Earth observation satellites that provide frequent observations," said John Bolten, water resources program manager for the NASA Applied Sciences program. We start our project inspired by the saying “We are not only interested in our backyard, we are interested in what is happening regionally and globally"

A OVERVIEW OF COUNTRIES' WATER RISKS:

Extremely high current water stress does not mean that a country will fall victim to famine. Armed with the right information, countries facing extremely high stress can implement management and conservation strategies to secure their water resources:

Singapore, for example, has the highest water stress ranking (5.0). The country is densely populated and has no freshwater lakes or aquifers, and its water demand far exceeds its naturally occurring supply. Yet the country is consistently cited as an exceptional water manager.

what is our main solution?

Opening "water treatment and sanitation facilities" to countries struggling with water scarcity, raising awareness of the public in terms of water use, and requesting temporary aid (it is aimed at "temporary aid" so that the recipient country does not depend on the donor country and can manage its own water) from other countries to countries suffering from economic difficulties are among our main solutions.

This facility design and idea belongs to us. The design was created with computer programs

So what are the features of these facilities?

-The population, drinking, utility, industrial water and special needs of the settlement where the project will be prepared should be determined and necessary calculations should be made.

-A place should not be chosen in the flood area, and if necessary, necessary measures should be taken.

-Within the scope of the preliminary project; preliminary project report, location map of the facility, general site plan (1/25000 scale), general situation plan (1/10000 or 1/5000 scale), well logs and hydrological evaluation reports of surface water resources, water analysis reports, existing facilities plans should be added.

-An inlet structure should be constructed to control, measure and distribute the water brought from the source to the drinking water treatment plant before it enters the facility, to break the excess pressure of the raw water, to regulate the flow of the water and to shut off the water in cases where the facility is shut down.

-From time to time, the water coming under pressure can drag the fish along with materials such as sand and gravel. These substances, which accumulate at the bottom of the building over time, should be cleaned and taken out. In the meantime, the unit should be by-passed to ensure that the water inlet to the facility is not interrupted.

-In order to calculate the water losses within the facility and to determine the amount of water produced in the facility, the inlet and outlet flow rates must be under control.

Space Agency Data

Globally, two million people, including approximately 300,000 children under the age of five, die of diarrhea each year due to contaminated water and inadequate sanitation, and 785 million people do not have access to clean drinking water.

Although ¾ of the earth is covered with water, 2.53% of this is fresh water, and about 70% of the fresh water is in the form of glaciers. The total water resource of the world is predicted to be 43,750 km3 annually and 45% of this resource is in America, 28% in Asia, 15.5% in Europe and 9% in Africa. Annual per capita water resources are 24,000 m3 in America, 9,300 in Asia, 5,000 in Europe and 3,400 m3 in Africa. The annual distribution of total renewable water resources per capita shows deep differences on a country basis.

The result obtained by looking at these data: Inequality of water distribution by continents; the high amount of water per capita in developed lands, but the insufficient amount of water in continents and countries with poor socio-economic status (Africa, Yemen, Libya, etc.).

As Bolten stated, NASA helps us a lot with both satellite data and articles in identifying water-scarce areas (example: GRACE-FO twin satellites. NASA Worldview Map).

Hackathon Journey

Water scarcity, the severity and impact of which has increased over the years, is a common problem for all of us, but this problem mostly damages countries with low social economy and creates social injustice there, so we chose this project to solve this problem and help countries that face this problem. While researching this project, we saw how many physical and psychological difficulties people experience, and we used our data that promises a definitive solution to this injustice. We would like to thank YEŞİM MEÇO DAVUTOĞLU and BEGÜM VATANSEVER, who helped us in our interviews while preparing this project, for keeping us informed. In our interview with Yeşim Meço DAVUTOĞLU, we decided to start a water dispenser campaign. In this campaign, we want to solve the problem of the people in the region by opening a water dispenser with aid to the countries experiencing water scarcity.

You can see the poster of the campaign we launched here and it says 'Water is everyone's basic need, but some regions like africa don't have access to water as much as we do.

People in Africa have to walk 15 kilometers every day to bring water to their homes, and the girls here are not sent to school to bring water to their homes.We started a water dispenser campaign to end social injustice.