Why Save Water?
If you’re not sure why you might want to save water around the home, Melanie from Bean Sprouts has brief explanation on why it’s something we should all be doing:
In one sense, water is an infinitely renewable resource. It never runs out because it just cycles round and round. You drink it, but it isn’t gone - sooner or later you’ll pee it out, it will get processed and return to the rivers and seas. You spill it, it evaporates and goes back to the clouds, to rain down and return to the reservoirs. Your pipes leak? So what? It all goes back to the groundwater where it was pumped out of in the first place.
Think of the resources needed to collect the water (how much energy does it take to build a dam?), to clean the water, to store it and to pump it to where it is needed. When you think of all the energy that has gone to produce each pint of tapwater, it seems much more important to conserve it.
Many parts of Australia are still in drought and the problem of diminishing freshwater supplies is far from being resolved. Current water supplies cannot support the growing population and it is just a matter of time before we start to run out of water. There are many water saving tips we can implement which will help reduce our consumption but that alone won’t solve the problem. What needs to be done to solve the water crisis? A few options are:
- significantly reduce consumption
- recycle water
- build desalination plants
- use storm water
- build more dams
There isn’t one solution to our water supply problems, multiple solutions need to be implemented by the Government and by individuals. The worst thing we can do is take no action now.
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