| WHAT YOU DO COUNTS!! Increíblementeen CR have scarcity of water and is likely by mid-2010 have significant water cuts across the country, so that we may be ushering in a new era where we get used to not having water every day. The worst thing is that if we do something about it, it is likely that our children suffer from water shortages similar to those living in the desert in subhuman conditions, having to pay a high price for the precious liquid.
PLAN TO SECURE WATER SUPPLY
1. Save water. At least one liter of water a day.
2. Take action. Commit and make your family commit itself to save at least one liter of water daily. |
WAYS TO SAVE AT LEAST A GALLON OF WATER A DAY
* If you know other ways to save water, please write them down here.
** If you save more than a liter a day, many will be grateful
** Try to save one liter for each additional unconscious believe that this issue is not of vital importance.
1. THE BATHING . Of all the waste of water, the bathroom is the largest in existence. (He spent 7 to 10 liters per minute and people are unaware that they take up half an hour to bathe. It only takes 3 minutes to swim well!)
Actions
a. I'll put a bucket under the shower as it heats the water and I will use it to water my plants and for the WC (toilet). Estimated savings: up to 40 liters of water per day! place another tray for when I shower and that water used for toilet soap.
b. Before bathing me in 10 minutes and now I will do in 3. Estimated savings: up to 100 liters of water per day!
c. Will close the key when I lather and shave me (though I cold). Estimated savings: up to 80 liters of water per day!
d. Halve the pressure of the water that I bathe regularly. Estimated savings: up to 100 liters of water per day!
2. IN THE WC . The second largest waste water is WC. (Every time we pull the lever to go down the drain 10 liters of drinking water. Some people are unaware that use the toilet as a trash can!). Actions
a. I'll put a plastic bottle full of water inside each of the toilet (in case you have no toilet savers.) Estimated savings: up to 30 liters of water per day!
b. Stop using the toilet to throw garbage and throw a trash can. Estimated savings: 10 to 100 liters of water per day! (Depends on the habits each person)
3. TEETH TO WASH. (Every time we brush our teeth are spent from 3 to 20 liters of water).
Actions
a. Instead of leaving open the faucet while I brush my teeth, I will use a glass of water to rinse my mouth and my brush or just shut the faucet while brushing my teeth. Estimated savings: up to 60 liters of water per day!
4. doing laundry.
Actions
a. Will use full loads of laundry to save water. Estimated savings: up to 100 liters of water per day!
b. Significantly reduce the amount of soap to prevent contaminating millions of gallons of water. Estimated savings: unlimited!
c. Reuse the wash water for lawns and toilet. placing the hose in a large tank.
d. Using water from the washer (2 nd and 3 rd discharge to water the plants, the garden, washing the front of the house, among other areas)
5. AL Washing dishes
Actions
a. First enjabonaré all the dishes (with the tap) and then enjuagaré, using the water from each utensil to remove excess soap, finally, the enjuagaré with tap water. Estimated savings: up to 50 liters of water per day!
b. Rebajaré water liquid dish soap (3 parts water to one part soap) to rinse the dishes more easily and avoid contaminating millions of gallons of water and detergent.
c. Will place extra fat of fried stewed in a stoppered bottle and deposit it in the trash instead of throwing down the drain like it did. One liter of oil down the drain pollutes one million liters of water! (Enough for the water consumption of a person for 14 years).
d. Lay a tray with water and the dishes first deposit there to be rinsed before washing, saving 60 liters per day estimated
e.Con a napkin or paper towel will clean the dishes before washing.
6. THE WASHING FOOD
Actions
a. Wash the food in a pan instead of under running water. Estimated savings: up to 20 liters of water per day!
7. LEAKS .. think that a leaking faucet loses 30 liters of water ..
Actions
a. Will review and will repair leaks in my house whenever necessary. Estimated savings: up to 100 liters of water per day
8. CLOSE THE PRESSURE OF THE KEY STEP
Actions
a. I'll go down the water pressure in my house to reduce consumption in general. Estimated savings: up to 50% of total household water.
9. THE CAR WASH. Washing the car with a hose uses up to 500 liters of water
Actions
a. Will use a bucket instead of hose. Estimated savings: up to 500 liters of water per day
b. Wash the car only 1 or 2 times a week
10. Use biodegradable products
a. Some products of specific brands, reduce the consumption of water used to rinse the dishes, do laundry or clean the home and other activities and their packaging are biodegradable. ASK WHAT (Yepes Freiman 3166227663)
11. TO COOK to
. Heat only the amount of foods you eat
b. Cover all containers in which foods are cooking or heating.
c. Use the total resistance to heat is not wasted.
12. TO STUDY OR WORK
a. Turn off the computer monitor when you are not using
b. Turn off lights and appliances not in use
HIGHLIGHTS ON WATER
· Every time we go to bathroom and we pull the lever, we are consuming the same amount of water that Africans consume in a day.
· annual water consumption of a human being varies between 2.5 million liter (U.S.) to 1.500 liters in some African countries.
· one of every four people is not enough pure water.
· The production of a cotton shirt requires 2.900 liters water.
· Every eight seconds a child dies from drinking contaminated water.
· More than five million people die each year from contaminated water.
· In 2030 would need two planets to maintain the current lifestyle of humanity.
· 2 billion people worldwide, a third suffer from shortage of drinking water.
· One in six people lack regular access to drinking water.
· More than double, 2,400 million people, has no adequate sanitation.
· The water-related diseases cause the death of a child every eight seconds and are the cause of 80 % of all illnesses and deaths in the developing world, a situation that is much more tragic if takes into account that for a long time know that these diseases are easily preventable ..
· While in the past 20 years the developing world has witnessed an increased supply of water services, this progress was largely offset by population growth.
· It has been estimated that humans need an average of 50 liters of water per day for drinking, cooking, washing, farming, cleaning up. But the right to water, basic to any creature, starts getting dropwise to millions of people.
· emergency And this sound just a few years (World Water Forum held in March its third recent version, in Kyoto, Japan) began to be regarded internationally as a vertiginous terror of finding water shortages throughout the planet, arising not only from population growth, but the appalling human negligence with all related consequences.
· ; The first World Water Forum held in 2000 in The Hague, was set as the target for the year 2015 to reduce by half the number of people without access to drinking water. But did not include plans to prevent monopoly. Just another was appointed to the conflict in the privatization of water sources, destined to be one of the most severe of the century beginning.
· Although only 5% of drinking water in the world in his hands private annual earnings get these businesses are more than twice what the oil industry now win
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