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Facts &
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Water Quantity
1/3 of all
water used indoors is used to flush the toilet
Only 1.1% of
the water on earth is suitable for drinking
The average
five-minute shower takes between 15 to 25 gallons of water
One drip of
water a second can waste 2,000 gallons a year.
It's estimated that 3,100 cubic miles of water (mostly vapor)
is in the planet's atmosphere at any one time. To answer the
inevitable question - if it all rained at once - the Earth
would be covered in only 1 inch of water
Water and Health
Lack of water
is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue
You can
survive about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days
without water
The people
with the worst health drink the least water and
use the most
deadly diuretic drought causing drugs - caffeine
and/or
alcohol
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TIPS for
CONSERVATION |
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Use a bucket when you
wash your car rather than a hose. This would help avoid
a large amount of water from being wasted. Also, wash
your vehicles close to your lawn or garden
- Do not
unnecessarily flush toilets
Wash fruits and
vegetables in a bowl filled with water.
This will help in
reusing the same water for potted plants
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Fill
swimming pools and also bath tubs at slightly lower
levels to avoid water loss
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Do not
over water trees and shrubs. This will not only waste
water but is also harmful for the trees and shrubs
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Make
sure that water faucets are completely closed
after use
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Turn off
the water when you wash hands
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Do not
water the grass when it is raining
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Use a
broom to clean your sidewalk and driveway rather than a
hose
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Best
Practice |
The Simplest Rainwater Harvester
Heavy rainfall areas of Kerala
(Kuttanad, Aleppy District) and Karnataka (Vamdse
village, Kundapura Taluk of Udupi District) use a simple
saree based rainwater harvesting system to meet the
day-to-day drinking water needs of residents. Catchment,
transport and filtration of rain are executed by a
single cloth piece. The water is boiled before
drinking. LINK
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Case
Studies |
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Rapid population growth is a problem in both urban and rural
areas
of
India. Careful water management in rural India will affect the
growth management opportunities in urban India. The role of
government planners in urban and rural India is large and of
increasing importance. As village life improves, urban
problems
should decrease. LINK
Gomukh, a non-governmental organization involved
in direct field interventions related to land and water issues in
the Bhima basin
has been developing several activities
throughout the basin, varying from active involvement in river basin
management in areas neglected by government agencies to activities
of social and environmental restoration in areas in which government
interventions have had major negative impacts. The challenge is to
integrate all seemingly stand-alone activities into one vision for
the entire basin, and
negotiate this vision within the Bhima Water
Partnership and other relevant, government coordinated, institution
and policy design processes. LINK
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Articles |
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Process water quality control is not only about plant
operation and ethical aspects, but also about sectoral,
technological, economic
and organizational aspects. This implies the need for
integrated assessment. These wide range of activities can be summed
in
four words: Integrated Industrial Water Management. LINK
As
urban populations grow, water use will need to shift from
agriculture to municipal and industrial uses, making decisions about
allocating between different sectors difficult. A concerted
strategy
for management of water resources in urban areas need to
be
put in place in order to avoid any sort of a crisis. An
integrated
urban water resource management plan, for example, will have
to move towards empowering communities to decide on the level of
access to safe water and hygienic living conditions. LINK
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Book Review |
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Water Management in
India
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Water Management in India/P.C.
Bansil.
New Delhi, Concept, 2004,
x, 558 p., ISBN
81-8069-097-0.
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SCENARIO
IN INDIA |
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- In India, water seems to be everyone's turf but nobody's
responsibility. The strain on this natural resources due to
the increasing population should be given a thought. Though a
progress in supply of safe water to the people can be noticed,
there is disparity in the coverage of water across the
country.
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Project |
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Thematic Network on Sustainable
Policies for Promoting Water Conservation Technologies and
Practices
is sponsored by the European Commission Visit the
website http://www.sustainwater.com/
NetPEM
Public Trust along with RedR (Registered Engineers for Disaster
Relief) India and EcoDesign Consultants initiated an action-research
with the objective of understanding the impact of the Relief Camps
in Nagapattinam on the quality of Groundwater in the area, which is
the community’s main source of fresh water. The study initiated in June
2005 is still ongoing and is expected to be complete in the month of
November 2005 |
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NEWS
Update |
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Formation of Raindrops
Clouds contain huge numbers of
tiny droplets of moisture. Raindrops are formed when these tiny
droplets are enlarged, first by moisture from the surrounding air
condensing on them and then by coalescing with other droplets during
their descent. Raindrops vary in size from about
0.02 in. (0.5 mm) to as
much as 0.33 in. (8 mm) in thunderstorms. From the time they leave
the bottom of the cloud, evaporation takes place and, if the cloud
is high, the air warm and dry, and the raindrops small, so that they
fall slowly, they may evaporate completely before they reach the earth. If they do so, the drops are
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Benchmarking |
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As
part of its urban work program, the Water & Sanitation Program
– South Asia (WSP-SA) in partnership with the Ministry of Urban
Development (MoUD), Govt. of India, is undertaking a project on
Benchmarking Urban Water Utilities.
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Product
Window |
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WaterSafe
Drinking Water Test Kits
Watersafe® identifies harmful levels of
eight different common contaminants in water: Bacteria, Lead,
Pesticides, Nitrates, Nitrites, Chlorine, pH and Hardness. LINK | |
