How to Conserve Water at Home and in the Workplace 01

As we all know from school the earth water is constantly in movement, the water cycle or hydrologic cycle, describes the movement of water above, below, and under the earths surface. As the name ater cycle implies there is no beginning or end to this process and while water may change state from liquid, to vapour, to ice depending on the part of the water cycle that you are looking at, the amount of water on Earth remains constant over time. Unfortunately there are now more and more people on the planet to share this limited resource with, and the only way to deal with the growing shortage is to conserve as much water as possible by using what we have in the most responsible way.

Even when water seems abundant it important that we all do our bit to conserve as much as possible, aside from the obvious benefits of conserving water in an effort to reduce costs to you or your business, the widely publicised environmental concerns should also give us all a real incentive to conserve water. Many of the worlds people face serious water shortages, the BBC claim that eople in rich countries use 10 times more water than those in poor ones.and thatater-borne diseases already kill one child every eight seconds.

Conserving Tap Water
The average running tap uses approximately 10 litres of water every minute, and dripping taps can use up to 90 litres of water per week.

Top tips to conserve tap water:
Mend any dripping taps with appropriate washers and ball-valves
Don waste clean water on plants, put a bowl in your sink and use water from your washing up or cooled cooking water instead
Don run tap water until it cold, use your fridge to chill water or purchase a specialist undersink chiller or water cooler
Put a bowl in your sink or use the plug to avoid cleaning clothes etc under a running tap
Don overfill your kettle; boiling unnecessary amounts of water is wasteful and will increase your bills

Conserving Water in the Bathroom
Flushing a toilet uses up to 10 litres of water every time and accounts for a third of the water used in the home. According to Cambridge Water standard shower uses 35 litres every 5 minutesn average depth bath uses 80 litres and Power Shower' uses 80 litres

Top tips to conserve water in the Bathroom:
Have a shower rather than a bath but don spend too long under the shower
Don run water continuously when cleaning your teeth perhaps make use of a glass or mug