How to fight against wasted water and save water?
Globally, there is a water crisis. Some countries suffer greatly from the lack.
Humans do not use water rationally. There is a lot of wasted water at all levels. What will we have to do to preserve water in quantity and quality. How to save water? The experience of different countries, different continents, on the subject will be very interesting.
I totally agree with you as there is no rationalization of water consumption and many countries have suffered from water poverty. In addition, when water levels decrease by natural resources, this affects existing aquatic organisms, where the composition of water may change or salinity increases, and the growth of harmful algae increases, and all of this affects the existing aquatic life.
Protect communities and our planet by reducing the amount of water you use. To help you get started, we’ve compiled a list of 14 things to do in your life to reduce water waste.
1. Thrift and mend your clothes
Did you know that it takes 2700 litres of water to make the average t-shirt? Jeans are even worse. One pair takes 7600 litres. That means an average outfit uses 10,300 litres of water to make. Think about it…10,300 Nalgene water bottles full of water. Avoid purchasing new clothes whenever possible to help save water.
2. Install low-flow fixtures
Save water and money by installing low-flow toilets, shower heads and faucets. For a household of four people, this means over 100,000 litres of water saved per year.
3. Turn off the tap while washing your face, brushing your teeth and shaving
Don’t think that keeping the tap on while doing these things takes up that much water? Plug the drain sometime and see just how much is collected in the sink. Multiply that over 365 days, likely a few times a day. That’s a lot of water.
4. Aerate your lawn
Ensure as much rainwater as possible soaks into your lawn by periodically aerating it. Not only will you save water, you will also put less effort into watering your lawn.
5. If it’s yellow, let it mellow
Depending on your toilet, each flush uses 6-26 litres of water. Resist flushing your toilet whenever possible.
6. Save leftover ice
Have leftover ice in a bowl or cup? Instead of dumping it in the sink, let it melt and use the water to hydrate your plants (or drink it yourself).
7. Get a rain barrel
Save rain water and use it to water your garden, indoor plants and lawn.
8. Fix leaks
One drip per second equates to 19 litres of water per day. Check inside and outside your home to ensure no water is leaking.
9. Don’t use more dishes than you need
More dishes means more washing. Not only does that mean extra time and effort, it also means extra wasted water. Your dinner tastes just as good served in the pot it was made in as it does in your fancy serving bowl.
10. Reuse your pasta boiling water
Cooking pasta (or vegetables)? Let the water cool and use it to water your plants.
11. Avoid mid-day plant and lawn watering
Extra water is evaporated when you water your plants and yard in high-heat. The most efficient time to do outdoor watering is during low-heat.
12. Shorten your showers
Already taking short showers? Maybe it’s time to cut back on the number of times you shower per week. A quick wipe with a soapy washcloth goes a long way in preventing smells.
13. Only run your washing machine and dishwasher when full
Don’t waste water by running loads that aren’t full. This will save water and time by cutting down on the number of loads you do.
14. Put a weighted bottle in your toilet tank
Ultimately, a newer more efficient toilet is best. But that’s not a realistic option for everyone. If your toilet is an old, water-sucking one (from around 1990 or earlier), place a weighted bottle in the tank to decrease the amount of water used with each flush.
https://greenactioncentre.ca/reduce-your-waste/14-ways-to-reduce-water-waste/
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Ways to take action and save our water supplies:
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/natural-resources/13-best-ways-save-water-stop-climate-breakdown
Please see the following link:
25 ways to save water
https://www.volusia.org/services/growth-and-resource-management/environmental-management/natural-resources/water-conservation/25-ways-to-save-water.stml
1- use water effectively which is for the targeted purpose
2. use water efficiently ie. doing more with little amounts to increase productivity
3. use alternatives such as wastewater, greywater for non-priority purposes and conserve the rest for consumption and other priority uses
Water should be recycled in all circumstance. Water molecules lived billion year thank to its particular ability to be everywhere as liquid, gaz or solid. Distribution of water depends on climate regions
That's a good question. I think that our governments have forgotten this aspect which is very important. We hear a lot of technical things; build dams, desalination plants perform, perform drilling .... It is time to look into educational solutions and awareness.
Over to you Professor Kettab.
Dear Neda Ravankhah
Thanks you for your answer and comments
your comments are very interesting and useful
Dear professor REMINI.
Thank you for your very rich and useful comments.
Dear Manal Hadi Kanaan.
you have given some very interesting values. According to you what is the minimum quantity of water for a human being to live per day. or per year?
Dear Professor Amara, dear all.
Water is the H2O molecule.
can science and technology manufacture (build) drinking water in quantity and quality? of course from H and O2 !!! ???
Install water-saving shower heads or flow restrictors. Your hardware or plumbing supply store stocks inexpensive shower heads or flow restrictors that will cut your shower flow to about three gallons a minute instead of five to ten. They are easy to install, and your showers will still be cleansing and refreshing.
https://www.volusia.org/services/growth-and-resource-management/environmental-management/natural-resources/water-conservation/25-ways-to-save-water.stml#
Turn off the water while brushing your teeth. Before brushing, wet your brush and fill a glass for rinsing your mouth.
Put a plastic bottle in your toilet tank. Put an inch or two of sand or pebbles in the bottom of a one liter bottle to weigh it down. Fill the rest of the bottle with water and put it in your toilet tank, safely away from the operating mechanism. In an average home, the bottle may save five gallons or more of water every day without harming the efficiency of the toilet. If your tank is big enough, you may even be able to put in two bottles.
https://www.volusia.org/services/growth-and-resource-management/environmental-management/natural-resources/water-conservation/25-ways-to-save-water.stml#
Turn off the water while shaving. Fill the bottom of the sink with a few inches of warm water in which to rinse your razor.
We can control this crises up to significant extent by adopting 3R strategy.
*Reduce
*Reuse
*Recycle
How to use water more efficiently. Ten Commandments.
1. First of all, repair or replace any leaking taps. Do not forget that a faulty tap can "drip" 30-200 liters of water per day!
2. Turn off the water when brushing your teeth or shaving. This way you will not waste 6-15 liters per minute. To brush your teeth, you can, for example, pour water into a glass.
3. A lever-operated mixer will achieve the desired water temperature faster than a mixer with two handles. In addition, the lever mixer "memorizes" the desired temperature.
4. Showers use less water than baths. You can also reduce water consumption without sacrificing comfort by using an economical diffuser with a smaller hole diameter in the shower.
5. Using a toilet breaker or double flush system can save up to 10,000 liters of water per person throughout the year.
6. It is better to use a filled bathtub or basin for rinsing the laundry. A washing machine is a more efficient way to save water though.
7. When washing dishes, do not keep the tap open all the time. If your sink has two compartments, wash the dishes in the sink filled with water with the drain closed. Rinse the washed dishes in a separate container with clean water. This method allows not only to reduce the consumption of water for washing dishes by 3-5 times, but also to reduce the consumption of household chemicals.
8. Only use the dishwasher and washing machine when fully loaded.
9. Do not defrost food under running water from the tap. It is best to transfer food from the freezer to the refrigerator in advance.
10. Special nozzles on the tap - aerators - allow to reduce water consumption in a very simple way: air is added to the stream, and the pressure remains strong, and much less water flows.
in production, the use of scrambling systems and its use in a closed loop.
Regards, Sergey Viktorovich Pushkin
Flush the toilet while you shave. Fill some few centimetres of warm water at the bottom of the sink to try to wash your bar of soap.
Dear Pouchkine Sergey Viktorovich
Thank you for your answer and comments
The main thing when "people think they got rich water resources"basically is main reason behind wasting water.
Few points can be opted to solve this situation.
1.In Japan people use their used water in kitchen and in sink to flush the washroom,I think it will be best to apply this in every home.
2. Do not use electric water purifier as there is continuous water flow which has been discarded during distillation process,instead use manual purifiers which already have a lot of capacity to reduce the impurities of water.
3. In car washing people can use surface cleaner.
4.One can use bucket n mug for bathing as shower is continuous water flow, ultimately a large amount of water is wasted.
5.For washing purpose one can reuse that cloth washed water to clean floors.
6.Use sanitizer if you really need to clean your hands while traveling.
7.Water leakage should be checked continuously, as drop by drop there is huge water loss.
Last and most important is that we should keep in mind to apply this on ourself before recommending others.
A change is firstly required to be initiated in self .. world will change.
Check faucets, waterlines, and pipes for leaks. Even a small drip can waste 50 or more gallons of water a day.
Use your automatic dishwasher for full loads only. Every time you run your dishwasher, you use about 25 gallons of water.
Dear Ankita Gautam
Thanks you for your answer and comments.
your comments are very useful and beneficial. it should be applied by many.
Have schools really done their part to educate their students on water usage? Even where there is abundance of water supply, people use water so carelessly without considering the impact on the environment. Water usage and its implication is what should be inculcated in people right from schools, otherwise the understanding will be elusive.
We can conduct Rallies, take movies which thrust the importance of waste water issues and advantage of saving water.
Water desertification has become a problem of the times and we must reconsider our calculations to preserve water droplets. One of the most important points is to maintain clean water free from nurses of all kinds by isolating the excess water from hospitals and power plants far from the waterway. Optimizing water investment through building dams and reservoirs Maintaining temperaturesWhich has a fundamental role in the extraction of water from our planet I take a future plan to maintain water sources. There is a saying that someday it becomes a bottle of water at the price of a barrel of oil to preserve natural resources, the most important of which is the water that is the basis of everything alive.
If you wash dishes by hand, don't leave the water running for rinsing. If you have two sinks, fill one with rinse water. If you have only one sink, first gather all your washed dishes in a dish rack, then rinse them quickly with a spray device or a pan of water.
Don't water the gutter. Position your sprinklers so that water lands on your lawn or garden, not in areas where it does no good. Also, avoid watering on windy days when much of your water may be carried off to the streets and sidewalks.
It's a time demanding issue, indeed. Definitely, wasting and saving of water is very from region to region. First of all, we should pay heed on awareness of the people. In our country amid the ablution for prayer huge amount water loss is happening due to remain open the faucet and on the other hand, there is no proper management to hold the pure rain water.
Hi Pr Ahmed Kettab
In my opinion we must return to two conditions one for the users and the other for the managers,
1-For users
they must be aware
2-For managers,
a-it is necessary to make the water supply through a good water balance study according to the exact needs of the agglomerations
b-periodic sensitization should be done for users
Regards
If you have a flash toilet, press the lever slowly, then only half of the water in the tank will be used and will refill faster, too.
Plant drought-resistant trees and plants. Many beautiful trees and plants thrive without irrigation.
Put a layer of mulch around trees and plants. Mulch slows the evaporation of moisture.
water is saved according to the user sectors differently: water for consumption, water for industry, water for the food industry, water for tourism, etc.
Add only that amount of water you need at the moment, rather filling a full glass of water and throw it out. Divert your bathroom water to plants or kitchen gardens. Use tap water wisely. Use bucket and Mug to take bath rather showers or bathtubs..
Water conservation using recycling methods, and that will save water and energy.
Don't run the hose while washing your car. Soap down your car from a pail of soapy water. Use a hose only to rinse it off.
Tell your children not to play with the hose and sprinklers. Children love to play under a hose or sprinkler on a hot day. Unfortunately, this practice is extremely wasteful of precious water and should be discouraged.
Check for leaks in pipes, hoses faucets and couplings. Leaks outside the house are easier to ignore since they since they don't mess up the floor or keep you awake at night. However, they can be even more wasteful than inside water leaks especially when they occur on your main water line.
Harvesting rainwater for domestic use will spare tap water and conserve water
Some countries considered car wash centres as the main points of water wastages, thereby putting regulatory measures. Leakages along the township water supplies is also considered another point of consideration.
Public enlightenment and awareness is the best way to forestall and minimize water wastage.
Dear Sadanand Pandey.
Thank you for your many responses and comments. I think you just discovered this question that I asked, hence your many answers that follow. This also shows your interest and skills on the subject.
1. Use water as per requirement, more use more waste water
2. Reuse waste water for gardening
3. Recycle the waste water
4. awareness for depleting water resource and shortage of water
Many Ways to Reduce Water Waste
This link talk about 14 Ways to Reduce Water Waste:
https://greenactioncentre.ca/reduce-your-waste/14-ways-to-reduce-water-waste/
Dear Abdelkader Mohamed Elsayed
Thanks you for your answer and comments
Dear Abdelkader Mohamed Elsayed
the website you gave is very interesting. I will transfer it to my network. thank you so much
leaks in water pipes vary between 20 and 70% depending on the country.
Recyle water to be used for washing not for drinking. Waste water can be refilter and reused if properly treated. Even sea water, where some way of treatiing the water can be used for flushing toilets. A lot of water is wasted when used in cleaning cars and households. We can substitute recycle water for this.
At CSIRO we are following a very interesting initiative from the US Dept of Energy called the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI). They are looking for innovations in using nontraditional sources of water and doing so at "pipe parity" - that is, at the lowest possible marginal cost in money and energy. It's a 10-year, $100M USD initiative that is currently in the roadmapping phase. See https://www.nawihub.org/.
There are some actions that we can do in our own homes that help to save water such as:
- Store rainwater from the roof;
- Store laundry water;
- Dry toilet;
- Timer taps
I did these things in my house and I can wash the backyard and gardens using only the laundry water that is directed by gravity to a cistern.
In order to combat wastage of water and save water, it will be necessary: - Maintain the drinking water system; - Renovate outdated pipes; - raising awareness of citizens through the means of communication (radio, television, Internet); - strict application of the law against waste of water.
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