Question

Some points on why should we not waste electricity

Answer 1

It takes a lot of effort from human and lots of resources from earth’s crust to generate electricity. As a saying goes, “We at earth have enough for everyone to eat, but none for anyone’s greed.”
If we waste electricity, it will add to the amount of fossil fuels and other natural resources that are already bring depleted at very high rate. Soon they will exhaust and we will be left wandering in search of new nature to burn.Producing electricity causes a lot of harmful gasses and degrades a lot of natural resources. Coals get burnt, rivers’ natural flow are disturbed and many a times, the demographic is changed. All this just to generate little amount of electricity for you! Learn to appreciate that.Not everyone on the planet is equally privileged as you are. Not everyone has access to 24x7 electricity. Many villages are there which haven’t yet seen how electricity looks like. The night is dark for them. If you don’t waste, that electricity can be used to light up their lives.The efficiency of the electricity generating units is very less. It is near to 40%. It is not yet a good figure. Also the people involved with its production suffer from many problems in their later life.Only by switching to LED bulbs, which saves electricity as compared to other florescent lamps, India saves nearly 10k crores, annually. That’s 100 billions annually in Indian Rupees.

I hope you might be little more informed about electricity and will try to conserve it.

Answer 2

There are plenty of reasons to save both water and electricity and some of them are very similar. First of all, from the individual’s point of view, saving these two resources means saving money. It’s simple – when you save water, your water bill isn’t high and the same principle works for electricity.

Second, conserving both is good for the environment. Less use of energy means that fewer fossil fuels are burnt and less pollution from that burning is released into the atmosphere. Conserving water ensures that we don’t deplete our sources of fresh water; more importantly, we don’t pollute water with pesticides and harmful chemicals that leave fresh water undrinkable and harm ecosystems that rely on that water.

Third, while electricity is generated using natural resources, water is a natural resource. Conserving both leads to conservation of resources that we are rapidly running out of and that are non-renewable.

Conclusion

Both water and electricity are essential to our lives. Without water, there will be no life. Without electricity, most of our daily necessities and needs will be unattainable. However, the stress on both these resources and the amounts that are being used need to reduce or soon there won’t be enough water or electricity to go around.