The UN estimates that 3.4 billion people will be living in
countries defined as water-scarce by 2025, then people will be forced to drink polluted
water. As you know, water is one of the most important resources for human
survival. Consequences caused by lack of water can be dramatic: reduced food
supplies, rising costs, health hazards or even armed conflicts.
Do you conserve water? If
yes, what are your methods?
What do you think about
examples given by Lana Mazahreh?
If you were given a chance to
tell the world about conserving water, what would it be?
Sources:
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/pdf/waterforlifebklt-e.pdf
https://www.ted.com/talks/lana_mazahreh_3_thoughtful_ways_to_conserve_water#t-73067
https://www.ted.com/talks/lana_mazahreh_3_thoughtful_ways_to_conserve_water#t-73067
Comments
-to close the tap when brushing your teeth (like the speaker said)
-wash more things together, not only something one (when doing laundry)
-to use a bowl of water to wash your face (instead of opening the tap)
Another idea, when owning a house, is to have an accumulator tank where rain water saves up, which can then be used for example for watering plants when its dry outside.
I see, that our methods are similar, especially washing more things together at once and closing the tap when brushing teeth.
That's a great idea too!
Thank you very much for your comment!
I agree with Lana that we should tell people how much water we have. I think that water end is possible. We should know that and take care about that everyday.
I don't think I could say anything meaningful - most of the people know why and how to save water but don't do it due to laziness. If we found a way to defeat it, we'd also solve half of humanity problems.
a) Either there is no water because of their geographical location, and there is no connection between me turning off the tap and water flowing in their sinks.
b) They have their own problem with waste management (be it India, where people take a bath in the river full of trash and dead bodies) and, again, there is nothing we can do to change their way of thinking.
The only way is "It will make your bills lower, man!", not some "If you don't close your tap, hundreds of people will die somewhere in Africa, some time later" - we simply don't care about it, as it doesn't concern us in any way.
(Yes I do use dishwasher and a washing machine but I'm not doing it to conserve water but because its obviously easier that way)
If you really want to know how bad it is, I will give you an example of the scale of the problem. Let's say that everyone would stop driving their cars. Hmm, that seems like a nice change, which is of course impossible. Would it matter? Well it probably would make pollution drop a bit, but you know what else would drop it by the same level? Getting rid of the 8 biggest transport ships. Yeah... All the personal cars on Earth pollute exactly the same as 8 - EIGHT biggest freight ships on Earth. So maybe instead of promoting these minuscule actions, of which we only heard, because they've been already commercialized by the system, which means that someone is making money from it, we should stop buying goods from companies that rely on mass production. But it won't happen, will it? Not if we can't watch Netflix, while eating pop corn at the same time.
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Thanks for comment!
That's a good habit too!
It is possible, indeed.
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I think it's a brilliant idea to use electronic signs to keep reminding people about the state of water availability in their region. Unaware people won't consider this an important problem, and if we don't start to care about this now, one day it might be too late.
Indeed, it is very important!
Thank you!
Thanks!
Thank you for this interesting comment.
Thank you!
Thanks for your opinion :).
Thank you for comment.