Since the human body can resist the microbe that infected the water in our utopian society we could let the people use that water while we get clean water for daily use. As proposed in our Conceptual Study for our model, we will be able to produce clean water using the resources found on Mars. We will need a number of resources that are found presently among the "red planet"; some of the resources will be more easily accessed than others. The resources needed are hydrogen (H), carbon (C) and oxygen (O). Hydrogen was imported to the city. The carbon and oxygen was discovered in the form of carbon dioxide. They can be acquired easily by being filtered out in the filtering system, by filtering the carbon dioxide and condensing it into a liquid state, and then removing the other gases. Then we will vaporize off the holding tanks of carbon dioxide. Thus, it will be distilled one hundred percent pure. Now we have the three elements, we can make a reaction with the oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen by using a reactor called the Sabatier reaction, and produces methane and water from carbon dioxide and hydrogen. This is written as:

CO₂+4H₂-->CH₄+2H₂O

This reaction is very efficient since no energy is required to accomplish and complete this process. This is an exothermic reaction, which means that it releases heat, and will also help us to "warm up Mars".

Now we have other problems. Our citizens are concerned that the microbe is actually an alien race. In order to solve this we would need to study past viruses that are similar to this microbe. The closest that we have studied is the Ebola virus. It can be stopped by proper handling and care. The infected were handled with gloves, masks, and suits, and they were contained in clean environments. Then once dead they were disposed of properly and the materials used to take care of the people were burned.

After making the colony sterile (it is proven that clean places make it harder for germs to travel and live in) we would perform analysis on the water to seek out and destroy the microbe. Then we will have to prove to the people that the microbe is not an alien race to reassure them and gain sanity among them to keep people from making drastic actions. The citizens, to make that extra reassurance for them will perform the analyzation.

The different fields are represented in this recovery plan in the various recovery models. For example, the social worker will decide how we are going to institute water rationing to the best interests of the people. The scientist will find or develop a clean source of water. The engineer will decide how the things will be transported and how they will be acquired. As we can see, every person’s job relates to each other’s.

We think that this recovery plan will be successful and that it is realistic. We also think that our city could recover from the disaster easily. We do not think that chaotic systems can be realistic simulated.
We had other ideas for the recovery of our city.  We thought that they would not work.  One idea was to bring water from the polar poles.  We thought that it was to hard to acomplish since the poles are far from our city.  If we had done nothing, all our citizens would die.  That is why we worked on our recovery plan very hard and fast.

We think that a utopian city can have disasters and still be a utopian society if it recovers successfully from the disaster. This utopian city would be showing how a utopian system should work. Since our city would recover from the disaster, we think that it would still be a utopian city.
 
 
 

Sources:
 

  Zubrin, Robert. The Case for Mars. New York, NY. The Free Press, 1996.