Water Distribution and Conservation Efforts
In my hometown, the municipal water distribution occurs once every three days. Some parts of the country have experienced a rainfall deficit this year. This situation is expected to worsen in the summer. All of us should make an effort to encourage water saving and recycling.
Attached is a PowerPoint presentation on the topic of "Thirst for Water." I hope you find it informative.
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Sudhir
From India, Vadodara
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1310In my hometown, the municipal water distribution occurs once every three days. Some parts of the country have experienced a rainfall deficit this year. This situation is expected to worsen in the summer. All of us should make an effort to encourage water saving and recycling.
Attached is a PowerPoint presentation on the topic of "Thirst for Water." I hope you find it informative.
Thanks & Regards,
Sudhir
From India, Vadodara
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We all need water. All living things must have water to survive, whether they get it from a water fountain, a rain cloud, or a little bottle attached to the side of a hamster cage. Without water, your body would stop working properly. Water makes up more than half of your body weight, and a person can't survive for more than a few days without it. Why? Your body has lots of important jobs, and it needs water to do many of them. For instance, your blood, which contains a lot of water, carries oxygen to all the cells of your body. Without oxygen, those tiny cells would die, and your body would stop working.
So, stop wasting water and utilize it properly.
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So, stop wasting water and utilize it properly.
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It is avery Good Presentation and an eye opener for those who either do not drink sufficient Water for thei well being or for those who waste water..Water is Life nad Life is Water. Jal hi Jiwan hai.
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A very good eye-opener, Sudhir sir. Since I am hailing from an agricultural family, I know the importance of water. Our water resources are depleting year by year. We used to cultivate paddy in our fields regularly every year when I was young. Later, we stopped cultivating paddy due to limited water supply and started growing maize. However, now we only have a coconut farm and have discontinued the cultivation of food crops because of water scarcity. Even the 90 feet well has dried up, and we can only water our coconut farm once every four days. I have personally witnessed the water scarcity due to our negligence.
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Importance of Saving Water
Saving water is important for many reasons, and some are more obvious than others. While some people believe that the conservation of natural resources makes ethical and moral sense, others appreciate conservation from a practical side, in that water is a limited resource and depleting it unnecessarily reduces future availability.
Cost
The most direct, visible, and personal reason to save water is to reduce your own expenses. Using water costs money. Overuse of water reduces the available supply, and according to fundamental economic principles, the reduction in the supply of water will result in a corresponding increase in price.
Environment
While water is an abundant resource on Earth, fresh, potable water is in limited supply. Fresh water is more important to humans than saltwater because we use fresh water to cook, bathe, and drink. However, fresh water also supports numerous forms of life, such as freshwater fish and algae, and depleting the supply of fresh water upsets the ecosystem. Humanity's overuse of water has direct effects on species outside of our own.
Energy
When you use more water, you force your local water treatment plant to purify and filter more water and send more to your household. All of these services require energy, so the increased use of water depletes yet another resource. The Mono Lake Committee states that 39 percent of the freshwater withdrawals in America can be attributed to electricity production from fossil fuels and nuclear energy alone. Your own household expends more energy the more water you use as well, as water used for cooking, washing, and bathing is generally heated.
Treatment Systems
Before you can use water, it must pass through filtration and treatment plants. Using too much water can overwhelm these plants to the point that untreated water can be flushed through the system before being fully treated, possibly resulting in a health hazard. Additionally, too much water use can blow out septic systems, which can release untreated material into the ground, possibly contaminating both groundwater and soil.
Future Generations
As populations expand and modernize, water consumption rises. We can safely predict that future generations will have a greater need for water than we have today. Conserving water today means we can delay or prevent future water development projects, which will require more energy and money to build. Additionally, any supply that we can preserve today will exist for the future.
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Saving water is important for many reasons, and some are more obvious than others. While some people believe that the conservation of natural resources makes ethical and moral sense, others appreciate conservation from a practical side, in that water is a limited resource and depleting it unnecessarily reduces future availability.
Cost
The most direct, visible, and personal reason to save water is to reduce your own expenses. Using water costs money. Overuse of water reduces the available supply, and according to fundamental economic principles, the reduction in the supply of water will result in a corresponding increase in price.
Environment
While water is an abundant resource on Earth, fresh, potable water is in limited supply. Fresh water is more important to humans than saltwater because we use fresh water to cook, bathe, and drink. However, fresh water also supports numerous forms of life, such as freshwater fish and algae, and depleting the supply of fresh water upsets the ecosystem. Humanity's overuse of water has direct effects on species outside of our own.
Energy
When you use more water, you force your local water treatment plant to purify and filter more water and send more to your household. All of these services require energy, so the increased use of water depletes yet another resource. The Mono Lake Committee states that 39 percent of the freshwater withdrawals in America can be attributed to electricity production from fossil fuels and nuclear energy alone. Your own household expends more energy the more water you use as well, as water used for cooking, washing, and bathing is generally heated.
Treatment Systems
Before you can use water, it must pass through filtration and treatment plants. Using too much water can overwhelm these plants to the point that untreated water can be flushed through the system before being fully treated, possibly resulting in a health hazard. Additionally, too much water use can blow out septic systems, which can release untreated material into the ground, possibly contaminating both groundwater and soil.
Future Generations
As populations expand and modernize, water consumption rises. We can safely predict that future generations will have a greater need for water than we have today. Conserving water today means we can delay or prevent future water development projects, which will require more energy and money to build. Additionally, any supply that we can preserve today will exist for the future.
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Thank you for the beautiful post. Any improvement in the environmental field reduces costs and increases profitability. In Maharashtra, even builders are now being made to provide sewage treatment plants compulsorily. Water must be preserved for mankind.
Thanks & Regards,
Sudhir
From India, Vadodara
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Thanks & Regards,
Sudhir
From India, Vadodara
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