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To save waterDo you know how many liters can a tap on lost? About 5 or 10 liters by minute. For us to make a simple gesture like to turn the tap on is something very usual, but this is a privilege that many people hasn't got. Today more than 1.500 millions of person hasn't got drinking water and 2.400 millions of persons (2/3 of the population of the Earth) can access to the cleaning of the water. This cause millions of deads all the years.

We must remember ever that our hydrographic recourses are running low every year and the population of the Earth grow. The water is not a unlimited recourse like many people can think. In many place of the world there are serious problems of desertification. Remember this: today can be a raining day, but we do not know if tomorrow will be. The ask is simple, how to help? And the answer is simply too, save water.
Here you have a list of the things that you can do to save and protect the quality of water, do not waste any:
In general...

  • Consume less and you save water; the most of the products need water to be produced, so buy only the necessary.
  • Put mechanism of save into the naps.
  • Repair the small lost of water in your tap. This lost can suppose lost of 30 liters in one day.

In the bathroom...

  • Take a shower instead of take a bath. You can save 150 liters.
  • Take shorter showers. Replace you showerhead with an ultra-low-flow version.
  • Install toilet cistern's of six liters instead of the eight liters, or if not put two bottles full into the cistern.
  • Don't brush your teeth or shave with the tap on. You can save more than 10 liters.
  • Never use the toilet to dispose of cleansing tissues, cigarette butts, or other trash. This wastes a great deal of water and also places an unnecessary load on the sewage treatment plant or septic tank.

In the kitchen...

  • Wash the dish with tap on suppose a waste of 100 liters. First soap the dish and them rinse.
  • Don't use the dishwasher if are not fully loaded.
  • Do not use running water to thaw meat or other frozen foods

In the laundry...

  • Don't use many blanch, break the bacterium balance. Use ecologic detergent, without phosphate.
  • Don't use the washing machine if are not fully loaded.
  • Wash with cold water instead of warm water, because this way you can save energy too.

For outdoor use...

  • Don't use the hose to wash your car, you waste 500 liters if you use this method. Wash it with a bucket and a sponge you only will use 50 liters
  • Water the plants in the morning or in the afternoon, if you do it in the hours of plenty sun a thirty percent of the water will be evaporated.
  • Choose indigenous flowers they are adapted to the environment of the region, for this reason expend less water and is not need it use a lot of chemical products.
  • Do not use the hope to clean the walks and / or drive walks. Use a broom
  • Use a moisture meter to determine when house plants need water. More plants die from over-watering than from being on the dry side.

Using this tips you can not only save water if not save money too, maybe for some of you can motivated more than protect the environment.

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