I really get scared when I think of a day without Water. Just imagine, no water to - drink, brush your teeth, to take bath (you will start stinking in 3 days and no one will sit next to you in train, buses, planes – its good though , you have the whole seat for yourself !!!), wash clothes, vessels, vehicles, water plants, flush toilet ….. It goes on. Disgusting man!!!
But we have taken the water availability for granted. Bloody my wife leaves the tap on every day while brushing; I get my car cleaned every day. Just do a rewind of your daily life activities you will find loads of such stupid activities leading to wastage of water. Will I or you do the same if we have to carry the water from miles? But there are people who walk few miles just to get drinking water – this is not in Sahara, may be 500 – 600 KMS from Bangalore. I think we all need to do this at least one day to realize the value of water.
I hate paying money and buying bottled water. We have reached this situation just because we are not utilizing and saving it properly. Just imagine, one day we paying for fresh air and sun light.
In our house, my brother has used some old pipes to do rain water harvesting and bloody belive me, the water level in the well has literally increased. (no effort from my side though ). From my side what I have done is drastically cut down the wastage, posted few articles on water usage in our apartment notice board and educating myself by reading on the net.
In your free time please visit this below site, has some good info.
http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/141/ghazi.html
My take away: Will try to reduce the wastage as much as possible & whenever I build a house , I will make sure it has Rain water harvesting setup.
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Good going Rags.
ReplyDeleteI remember you mentioning, "The amount of water required to grown sugarcane from which we can produce 1 Kg of sugar will be in hundreds & thousands of liters".
The concern you have brought up is genuine & and people have to act now.
Do you remember an incident during our stay in Middlesbrough, UK while we were doing our graduation? We were living in 135 Abingdon Road and you were living in the street near the Mosque!!
If I am correct it was on a holiday most of us were off from work. When we woke up in the morning and went into the bathroom for our morning rituals we found out that muddy water is flowing from all our taps!! The first thing we did was call U. You told it’s the same story in your place; next call was to Abi (12 Parliament Road), it was the same story there!!
The problem was this – the mail water pipeline that was the feeding line for Middlesbrough town was broken & council was fixing it. In the mean time the service / backup pipeline was used to supply water. Since this service line was not used & was muddy & rusted we had to wait till all the dirt was flushed.
Take away: This experience made us all aware not to take things for granted, especially natural resources.
Good initiative Rags.
I had read a tip to same water in commode style toilets; we tend to waist lot of water when we flush water. Simple solution is to take 1 or 2 one-liter plastic water bottle, fill it with water & put it into to the water tank of the commode. This way the amount of water flushed will be not more that what is actually required.
If you have 2 one-liter bottles you are saving 2 liters of water every time you flush! Good isn’t it. :)
Well not we have improved flushing options, but awareness is the key take away.
ur absolutely right ragu! water saving tip 2 - drink less beer!!!;)
ReplyDeletek seriously , its time to act !, i ve started developing aqua phobia but not in the sense of fear of water but the lack of it !
Correct Rags!!
ReplyDeleteActually we can do this. Beer is made whether we drink it or not, so lets start drinking Beer & save water for people who don't drink Beer ;)
Fact:
The ordinary beer of commerce, made from pure barley malt and hops, has approximately the following composition:
Alcohol 4.0%
Extractives 6.0%
Protein 0.5%
Ash 0.5%
Water 89.0%
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