Water Conservation Tips

Why should you conserve water? Like many things around us, we seldom appreciate what is plentiful and easily accessible. What could be more accessible and apparently plentiful than water? All we have to do is turn on the faucet any time 24 hours a day and there is plenty of water for our use. 

Water doesn’t just magically appear. It costs money to draw water from a lake or river or to pull it up from an aquifer. It appears in our homes only after it has traveled through miles of pipes and perhaps even a treatment process. Communities like ours draw water from wells drilled deep down in the earth from a source that is now dwindling – the aquifer. Due to decreasing amounts in our aquifers, water systems such as ours may be required to reduce our dependence on this source of water – another demonstration of the need to conserve. 

Water is simply a valuable resource that shouldn’t be wasted. Only 1% of the entire water supply on earth is available for human use – the remainder is salty or locked in ice caps and glaciers. It is just this 1% that keeps all of the world’s agricultural, manufacturing, community, and personal household and sanitation needs operating. We actually drink very little of our processed and treated “drinking water” – only about 1% of all treated water. The remainder goes in our washing machines, on our lawns, and down the toilets and drains.