Field Visits & Reports

Req 7a8 — Industry Water Use Installation

7a8.
Make a trip to an industry water use installation. Write a report of more than 500 words about the soil and water and energy conservation practices you saw.

This option helps you see that conservation is not only about farms and streams. Many industries rely on water for cooling, cleaning, processing, and product quality. The interesting part of the visit is how the facility reduces waste and protects nearby water.

Look for closed-loop cooling, reuse systems, monitoring equipment, treatment units, leak detection, and efforts to reduce both water and energy use.

Water Use in the Paper Industry (video)
How Data Centers Optimize Energy and Water for Cooling Solutions (video)

The last site option looks at a place built specifically to create fresh water from salt water.