An average household wastes 900 litres of water every day, which means more than 300,000 litres of water is wasted annually by one household. Chores account for most of this wasted water for a family of four, and 20,000 litres of which is wasted in doing the laundry and loading washing machines. As our world’s freshwater reserves continue to decrease every day, one way to help conserve precious, c ...
Unknown to many, washing machines are one of the largest water wasters in the home. This results in you paying a considerable cost for using treated municipal water normally used for drinking. One of the numerous ways people are looking to save water is by investing in rainwater harvesting systems, with rainwater tanks at its centre. With a family of four using rainwater for laundry and in their w ...
In recent times, droughts and expanding deserts, erosion from runoff, over-reliance on depleted water sources and the increasing costs of rural irrigation and water treatment facilities have all contributed to water scarcity. And if not addressed immediately, according to American environmental scientist Peter H. Gleick, an estimated 135 million people will suffer from water-related diseases by th ...
Water is vital to life, as are air and food. As most of history has shown us, a source of water is key in establishing human civilisation, transforming us from migratory hunter-gatherers to, eventually, fixed farmers. Where freshwater was easily abundant and made available to us at all times, times have certainly changed as major droughts resulting in scarcity of all kinds have affected our qualit ...
A house’s kitchen must be the busiest throughout the day where cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner happen. Ingredients, utensils and work surfaces must be cleaned and washed after every meal, not to mention the mounds of kitchenware that need cleaning after. If one is careless, the kitchen can be a place where a lot of water can be wasted—and where a lot of money (from wasting that water) can be w ...
