Let’s Conserve Water

How many times do you feel the need to get up and quench your thirst with a glass of cold, water? Most of us don’t even note how many times we go about and do just that, as it comes to us instinctively. Now imagine the frustration and unease you would feel if it runs out and there was no way to take care of your parched throat?

It is true we are unable to imagine the lack of a necessity till that blessing is taken away and it’s absence is a realization.

We waste a lot of resources, for something as basic as water. Misusing it is asin. Its use cannot be substituted. So what have we done to make sure it’s distribution is effective and efficient…

Millions of homes are affected if the source of water is restricted. Political battles are fought over the rivers flowing from one demarcated territory to the other and thousands of children die every day due to its contamination, where the ratio to its fatalities is much more than HIV-AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Due to lack of infrastructure a quarter of the population faces difficulties due to its shortage. Believe it or not but a huge part of it can be controlled if you and me could adopt a few steps to conserve water.

1.      While washing dishes, hands or clothes do not let the tap running while rinsing.

2.      Ensure there aren’t many leakages and no running tap is left open.

3.      Teach your children to close the water taps carefully

4.      To save time and water, consider washing up your face, hair and brushing your teeth in the shower.

5.      Take quick showers

6.      If your toilet flush doesn’t close after flushing, get it fixed!

7.      Notice no outer leaks are left open, as we pay more attention to indoor taps/faucets.

8.      Replace water with brooms if it is an available option

9.      Collect the water after rinsing fruits and vegetables and re-use it to water plants.

10.    Wash your edibles in a pan of water instead of running water.

11.    Soak pots and pans with tough greases over night, it helps with the rinsing and saves water and time.

All in all water is an essential resource; we ought to stay careful while using it. Let not the children of tomorrow look back in anger for our carelessness today.