Assessment Of Water Foot Print For Sustainable Use Of Water In University Of Gujrat, Pakistan

Abstract Water Footprint Assessment is used as a method to evaluate water consumption pressure at present and its possible future demands. It is a measure of direct and indirect water use by an individual, an activity or a process. For humans its measure changes with changing life ages, stages and styles. For activities its measure varies with materials, products and processes. At campus level most of the life forms and majority of life activities are together available. Specifically in UOG people from different cultural backgrounds are present at the same site. Academic, research, lab, library, stationery, cafeteria and transport services are actively working in the campus. A social survey was conducted at campus. Person to person water consumption is directed through questionnaire and structured interviews and for products & services data is gathered through data sheets. A statistical analysis is conducted to find individual measures of water consumption per day, per month and per year in the campus. Guidelines for sustainable water use are developed by considering the consumption patterns and life styles analyzed by data from different societies in the campus. This is how without compromising our present water demands we can make it possible to meet our future needs and needs of deprived ones as well. This is simply possible by changing our ways of consumption and a slight shift of balance in our eating, seeming and treating habits.