Saving Water System
General description
Effects
Causes
The excessive waste of water in the showers, sinks and toilets. People do not have custom of saving water because it have not been taught these habits. We want to start to raise awareness and create a culture of recycling and make good use of the water. We want this to start from home and that children grow up with these habits this will make in the future be good citizens and make proper use of the environment.
Many people do not recycle because it requires extra effort, because they think that this small action will not change anything and often because they feel it is somewhat difficult with the easy use of AQUS will achieve that people will encourage more to recycle the water and realizes that with small actions is that they accomplish great things.
Great part of the water that can be in use this one increasingly contaminated, in addition 70 % of that we use is destined to regadíos of cultures that often are not the suitable ones, provoking a waste.
The average consumption of water for person and day in the developed countries, comes to be more of the double of the strictly necessary one. We can modify our conducts this way save water, but in addition sustainable technologies exist nowadays for the architecture that they can give us a good saving.
Some of these bad habits are:
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To wash the car with opened hose.
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The teeth to be cleaned or to be shaved by the opened faucet.
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To scrub the plates.
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The lack of conscience on the part of the human beings, many of them do not have knowledge it brings over of good ways of saving water.
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The lack of knowledge.
The effects of wasting water are many and troubling, from higher water bill until major consequences for the environment. Water takes a lot of energy, time and money to filter and clean. Wasting water means we are wasting the energy intensive process of filtration that require non-renewable fossil fuels and these resources become depleted.
The freshwater that is cleaned and delivered to homes is often taken from aquatic environments in which the plants and animals rely on the water to survive. If too much water is removed from these systems and not returned in equal quantities, these species become endangered.
