According to World Atlas, the drinkable water on earth is less than 1% and the rest of the drinkable water is in the form of groundwater which is 40 in percentage. Since freshwater is increasingly facing scarcity worldwide, the need for water conservation is vital.
Over the years, there was a vast change in the lifestyle of humans, and the same is well reflected in the habits. Humans have the habit of brushing and washing hands with a running tap in front of them. How many litters of water are you wasting during the brushing and hand washing alone? Just Imagine!
WHY WATER CONSERVATION IS SO IMPORTANT?
Water is the core of life’s existence.
We don’t care to think about a world without water while we are busy consuming it to the fullest. There are regions in the world where animals, birds, plants, and humans suffer without adequate availability of water, and at the worst, they battle face to face with droughts.
As mentioned in the beginning, freshwater is scarce on earth and the available groundwater is in the ongoing journey of depletion. And the causes are vegetation loss, deforestation, pollution, etc. which is indeed rooted in our irresponsible use of water and poor resource management.
Every year we receive a certain amount of precipitation. Why don’t we adopt simple technology like rainwater harvesting and collect them for summer use? All we need is to set up tanks or barrels for collecting them from rooftops, land surface, and rock catchment. People belonging to a certain area can unite to initiate the method of watershed management to meet the drinking and other purposes pertaining to their area. Likely we have enough options to look into.
The above mentioned are only a few important reasons and possible measures at hand for water conservation, without considering other reasons such as agriculture, hydraulics, etc.
NOW OR NEVER
Conservation methods:
- Rainwater harvesting
- Reducing wastage: from source, distribution to individual levels
- Promote outdoor conservation ideas like rain barrel for gardens
- Reducing flush tank capacity
- Promotion of water-saving equipment
- Reuse of water
- Reducing the time of shower results in low consumption of water.
- Controlling pollution
We have to change our attitude and the execution of water conservation strategies. Apart from our changing lifestyle, we have to adopt eco-friendly equipment and engineering for conservation purposes.
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