how do we prevent water wastage - at the personal level,family level &community level
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Insulate Your Water Pipes
It’s easy and inexpensive to insulate your water pipes with pre-slit foam pipe insulation. You’ll get hot water faster plus avoid wasting water while it heats up.
Recycle Your Water Where You Can
Collect the cold water you run before it’s hot enough to shower and use it to water plants or flush the toilet (known as a bucket flush). Rinse water from dishes and food preparation can be collected and used to soak other dishes.
Eat Less Water-Intensive Foods
Our diets account for roughly half of all the water we use. All food has a water footprint, but some are much larger than others. Eating less beef, one of the most water-intensive foods, is a smart place to start. Shifting away from animal products to a plant-based diet can shrink your water footprint significantly.
Buy Less
Consumer products are an often-overlooked source of water use, accounting for up to a third of most people’s water footprint. Buying less of everything—from clothing to electronics to household goods—can dramatically decrease your water footprint.
Water is an invaluable resource that is getting depleted rampantly due to overconsumption, wastage, and pollution. Water conservation techniques are easy and can make a huge difference to you and your neighbourhood.
If you live in a populated Indian city, you must have surely suffered from water shortages during the summer months. Here are a few simple ways that you, your family and your neighbours can conserve water both indoors and outdoors.
1) Build awareness among your local community
Educate the residents of your locality about efficient water practices, and spread this information among children, housewives and domestic help groups as they spend most of their time at home and can control water usage and wastage.
2) Plant droughts resistant lawns, shrubs, and plants in your colony
Adorn the gardens and sidewalks of your neighbourhood with beautiful droughts resistant plants that grow well in all seasons. Use native plant species as these require lesser water and are accustomed to the local weather conditions. You can also save water by grouping plants according to their watering needs.
3) Check for leaks in pipes, hoses, and faucets
While we are easily aware of the leaks in our homes, it may be difficult to keep track of leaks in common areas outside our homes. Leaks outside the house can be extremely wasteful as communal pipes and hoses are larger and have a constant flow of water. Pipes, hoses, and faucets that are used for the entire neighbourhood should be checked regularly to keep them leaks free.
4) Don't run the hose while washing cars
Collectively decide to clean the cars in the colony or residential complex by only using a bucket of water for rinsing and a wet cloth for wiping. If each individual in your neighbourhood discontinues using a hose for washing their car, around two hundred liters of water can be saved per car per day.
5) Prevent water wastage from swimming pools
If your residential complex or neighbourhood as a community swimming pool, get it checked regularly for leaks and cracks that lead to water wastage. Also, save water that can be lost through evaporation by keeping the pool covered when it is not being used. Using a pool cover not saves water but keep the water clean and unpolluted.
6) Maintain sewerage systems
Ensure that washing machines, dishwashers, toilets, and bathrooms are correctly connected to the sewage system that recycles the water. It is essential that the sewage from your community building does not end up untreated in a local water body. Get this checked and rectified by an expert.