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We can calculate the estimated amount of water used for manual watering of the whole retail area from this data.
The projected amount of annual CO Emissions associated with water usage before implementing the eco-solution
2
is shown in Table 2.

Resource Number of Usage per Daily Usage Annual Usage Annual CO Conversion
2
Potted Plants Watering Session (Twice Daily (m ) Emissions Factor
3
(m ) Manual (kgCO /m )
3
3
2
Watering, m )
3
Water 20 0.072 0.144 52.56 31.536 0.6 kgCO /m 3
2
800 2.880 5.760 2,102.40 1261.44 0.6 kgCO /m 3
2
Table 2: Annual CO emission from manual watering.
2

With the help of the irrigation specialist in the company,
the students proceeded to install the drip-irrigation
system at the section of the retail area (see Figure
19). The drip-irrigation system was installed on the
same number of potted plants used for baseline data
collection to obtain an accurate comparison with the
baseline data.

Figure 19: Students collecting the tools and equipment for
installation.

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