This may seem silly, but a really smart thing to do is to always make sure that the faucet is completely off before leaving a sink. Why? Well, I did an experiment to judge how much water is wasted on dripping taps. Here are the results:
At a mere 17 drops per minute, a dripping tap can emit 3mL of water per minute.
In an hour, therefore, this would have accumulated to 180mL-- in between one half cup and one cup.
In a day, this number would have risen to 4.32L, or about 17.5 cups of water.
If everyone in the world did this for a year, the total would amount to approximately 11,037,000,000,000,000L of water.
What can we do with the above amount of water?
Let us leave it be in its source and keep the ecosystem flourishing. I would love it if we stopped draining lakes and started simply using less water, wouldn't you?
So please turn off the taps you see dripping in your house. Educate your family members to do the same. Think of how much we could save!
By the way, now is the ideal time to start using your ration books (see earlier November post)! I have started mine for the month of December already. I'm wondering how well I will do...
Until next week!
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