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Surface. only about 3% is really fresh water. the rest is saline, too salty for drinking water. when you think of the unavailable portions of water, in icecaps, glaciers, the water we can't get to, only about 0.5% of the fresh water is available, used for drinking water. when you think why we use water, it is not just water in your house, drinking water, cooking, washing dishes, but you need water to grow food, produce energy, make our clothing, make our cell phones. takes about 80 gallons of water to produce one ear of corn, for example. it takes about 60 gallons of water for a 4 ounce hambur...

The environment or the plants are doing well. some of the lighting comes from solar tubes, basically big empty columns that channel the sunlight from the roof to the floors below, and the building itself is covered in 570 solar panels, which should provide all of the power it needs for things like the dry mist fans that they use instead of air conditioning, the led lights, and the irrigation system. that would actually provide enough power to power the entire pavilion for the six months. and with that solar energy harvested from the sun, we are doing desalination. we draw ground water from the...

The environment or the plants are doing well. some of the lighting comes from solar tubes, basically big empty columns that channel the sunlight from the roof to the floors below, and the building itself is covered in 570 solar panels, which should provide all of the power it needs for things like the dry mist fans that they use instead of air conditioning, the led lights, and the irrigation system. that would actually provide enough power to power the entire pavilion for the six months. and with that solar energy harvested from the sun, we are doing desalination. we draw ground water from the...

The led lights, and the irrigation system. that would actually provide enough power to power the entire pavilion for the six months. and with that solar energy harvested from the sun, we are doing desalination. we draw ground water from the ground. ground water is saline in nature, so we have to do a desalination process, also powered by the solar energy and the water that is desalinated is used to irrigate the plants and water the plants, as well as for normal use for the pavilion. with 85% of the city state's population living in high rise you public housing, this is a journey that singapore...

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