Water costs too less in India compared to the actual cost of purifying it and pumping it to our homes. Its cost should be beefed up for two reasons. First, citizens will understand the true value of this every decreasing resource. Second, municipalities will have the incentive to plug leaks. Currently water generates so little revenue for a city that it is more costly to fix leaks than it is to allow water to go waste. See how counter intuitive our system has become? It actually draws upon a much larger and very involved topic of the true cost of things which I shall not delve in to in this post.
For a perspective on how cheap is water in India go through this article. Another article that talks about similar issue I am raising is here.
What can we do as responsible citizens?
The government is promoting water harvesting in large apartments. In Bangalore, the municipal corporation has come up with a garden where they demonstrate how water harvesting can be done.
There is also a large cost of recycling drainage water. Therefore, effort should be made that relatively good water such as from rain drains, or from washing of vehicles or pavements does not go through the sewage system. Instead such water can be easily used to enhance ground water levels, or watering potted plants or your garden.
Recently I saw a pressurized water gun, which can be used to wash vehicles, consuming less water than by open water hose. It also gives the feel that you have washed your vehicle with a water pipe. (Of course the vehicle can also be cleaned using a mop in half a bucket of water.)
If you have a large house the car washing area can have a steel container underneath the car to collect all water and direct it to the garden or some irrigation system.
Have you seen someone use water more efficiently or do you do it already? Share your thoughts for others to benefit from it.
For a perspective on how cheap is water in India go through this article. Another article that talks about similar issue I am raising is here.
What can we do as responsible citizens?
The government is promoting water harvesting in large apartments. In Bangalore, the municipal corporation has come up with a garden where they demonstrate how water harvesting can be done.
There is also a large cost of recycling drainage water. Therefore, effort should be made that relatively good water such as from rain drains, or from washing of vehicles or pavements does not go through the sewage system. Instead such water can be easily used to enhance ground water levels, or watering potted plants or your garden.
Recently I saw a pressurized water gun, which can be used to wash vehicles, consuming less water than by open water hose. It also gives the feel that you have washed your vehicle with a water pipe. (Of course the vehicle can also be cleaned using a mop in half a bucket of water.)
If you have a large house the car washing area can have a steel container underneath the car to collect all water and direct it to the garden or some irrigation system.
Have you seen someone use water more efficiently or do you do it already? Share your thoughts for others to benefit from it.
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