Reflection

This 20 time project started out as means of educating ourselves and others about the drought mainly by doing just research. That didn't really work out too well. The drought is such a large and general topic that we needed to synthesize our idea into something on a much smaller scale. So we went on the route of researching what our peers are really interested in about the drought. When we put out the survey it helped shaped how we would conduct the rest of our project. The input of the community is really good tool that we discovered during this process. We have yet to utilize the face interview which we said we would do, but ultimately didn't.

It was really hard to keep ourselves on track. Other than the blog post that was due every few weeks, we didn't have any other guidelines or deadlines to keep our goals in line. Vega and I discovered that we could incorporate research, analysis, etc into our blog posts. The posts would encourage us to do something more than just reflect on the little progress we had made. We'd think "oh we have a post coming up we should add something into our project". So thats exactly what we would do. We'd put out a survey for one post on top of reflecting, then the next week we'd analyze it or we'd research and put our information into a presentation. Basically so we could end up having something to talk about. But it did really help! We covered a lot more ground when we were expected to talk about what ground we actually covered.

If we could go back we'd of put out surveys earlier and asked more people in person about the topics they are interested in, it would of guided us on a much more efficient path. We wanted to teach others, but we couldn't really do that if we didn't know what they are and aren't informed about already.

The project really isn't finished, it has just begun. Honestly, we don't know what the future holds for this project, but we hope to continue through our drought endeavors. 

A Little Intro to Factory Farming

Factory farming is a huge consumer of water in California. Between watering the crops that farm animals eat, providing drinking water for billions of animals each year, and cleaning away the filth in factory farms, transport trucks, and slaughterhouses, the animal agriculture industry has a huge impact on the water supply. It also takes an estimated 1,581 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef, which is roughly as much as the average American uses in 100 showers