Save Water Now!

With so many ways to save water, here are the highlights of five key actions to help you capture the water saving around your home. Remember, every drop counts’.

  Stop those Leaks: Check your indoor water using appliances and devices for leaks. Many silent leaks let your money and water go down the drain. Studies have shown that homes can waste more than 10 per cent due leaking, which cost both you and environment. A leaking faucet can waste up to 100 litres in a day.

Be Alert: Some of the old flushes drain a homologous amount of water whenever they are used. Replace them with Start/Stop types, or immerse two mineral water bottles inside it to reduce the effective volume. Eight to 20 litres of waters are wasted if you keep the tap running when you are brushing your teeth or shaving. A ten minute shower will waste upto 300 litres of water, while a good bath seldom requires more than 150. If each member of family uses bath-tub for bathing it translates to thousands of litres of water drained.

Check your Washing Machine: There are models of washing machine which economize heavily on water and power. Add this to the list of features when you are selecting a model for yourself. A top loading washing machine needs 160-200 litre of water to wash one load of laundry.

Right Landscape design: Weather you are putting a new landscape or slowing changing the current landscape at your home, select plants that are appropriate for your local climate conditions.

Water only what your plants need: If your have a farm, garden then irrigate your land during night , as less water will be lost due to evaporation then. Much water is wasted by watering when your plants don’t need water or by not maintaining the irrigation system.  

Hard Facts You should know:

• As many as two billion people do not have ready access to clean water.
• 2.4 – 2.9 billion people have no sanitation facilities.
• 6,000 children die every week from water related disease.
• It takes 1,000 tons of water to raise one ton of rain, but 16000 tones of water to raise one ton of beef!

How much is where?

And you thought, after the oceans, it’s the rivers that contain the most water. Looks like you were wrong, as rivers contain only about 0.0001 per cent of overall water content in our earth, as this chart tells us.

Oceans: 97.24 per cent

Icecaps glaciers: 2.14 per cent

Ground water: 0.61 per cent

Fresh water lakes: 0.009 per cent

Inland seas: 0.008 per cent

Soil moisture: 0.005 per cent

Atmosphere: 0.001 per cent

Rives: 0.0001 per cent