Though it was found out that most of them already use water judiciously, the water expert gave them advice on how to cut down usage further.
Water Expert Madhukar Kambale demonstrates to Manali Kamat how to wipe off excess oil from utensils to save water Ramachandra and Manali Kamat stay on the 3rd floor of Nirmal Building.
Water expert Madhukar Kambale told them they need only three litre water.
He suggested them to cut water supply from he flush by pushing the nob upwards in the middle.
Though they need three and a half buckets of water to wash clothes daily, Kambale told them about the secret of using washing powder judiciously.
Kambale giving instruction to Gouri Kalokhe on how to reduce usage of water in a washing machine There are five members in the Kalokhe family.
They have one vehicle and it takes about one bucket of water to wash it and they use tap water for plants.
They have promised to cut down usage on these as well.
They believe 10-litre water in the flush tank is a necessity and don’t want to cut down usage there.
The maid uses running tap water to wash utensils and water expert Madhukar Kambale believes this can be changed to bring down water wastage.

The United States Agency for International Development (USID) says five thousand households would benefit from its Effective Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services (E-WASH) programme.
The E-WASH programme aims at improving water delivery services and sanitation across six states including Abia, Delta, Imo, Sokoto, Niger and Taraba.
Speaking at the launch in Abuja, USAID Nigeria Mission Director, Stephen Haykin, said the programme would focus on strengthen governance, financial and technical viability of water agencies, which will subsequently lead to an improvement in the health and hygiene of the population.
“Through the course of this activity, USAID will help the water boards demonstrate that better performance that will raise the quality of services for their customers, facilitate economic sustainability by improving finance through a reduction or better targeting of subsidies, and increase the chances of serving all customers in their area, including the marginalized,” Haykin said.
“I am confident that USAID, our new partner state governments, collaborative development partners and the business community, can share our respective expertise, capabilities and resources to develop more professional and accountable water and sanitation utilities,” he noted.
Haykin said the six beneficiary states were selected based on their willingness to reform the existing functionality of their infrastructure and their potential for positive impact.
The minister of water resources, Suleiman Hussain Adamu, who was represented by the director, water supply of the ministry, Benson Ajisegiri, lauded USAID for the programme.
“By strengthening these state Water Boards’ capacity to make solid investment decisions, improving the efficiency of their billing and collections, and responsiveness to the concerns of their customers, more people and businesses will ultimately have access to water and sanitation services,” he said.
The United Nations had said that about 57 million Nigerians lack access to safe drinking water, and each year, water-borne illnesses kill around one million Nigerian children under the age of five.

Speaking during a media briefing with the Danish ambassador to Kenya Mette Knudsen in Nairobi, Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana expressed confidence that every household will have access to fresh water by 2020, stating that water budget is the biggest development allocation set aside by his government.
“I am excited that tomorrow they will come to Makueni with the ambassador and we will go to Kalawa so we can see from the citizens… ordinary people themselves the efficacy of the technology,” said Kibwana.
He said he was optimistic that water scarcity in Makueni will be a thing of the past.
“My prayer is to see women access water from their households and not walk for miles and miles in search of water.” Knudsen urged the National Government to cooperate with County Governments to ensure the water problem in the entire country is fully resolved.
“As the Danish Government, we are really committed in providing water solutions especially in areas that receive low rainfall and we are happy to be partnering with the Kenyan Government not only in water services projects but also in other sectors,” she said.
“I would ask the County and National Governments to support each other and collaborate in all the projects meant to benefit the ordinary citizen.” The county will be working with Grundfos Water Utility Company which is the world’s leading pump manufacturer, which will ensure smooth supply of water in the region.
Grundfos CEO Mads Nipper assured to share their knowledge and technology that will see perennial water shortage in Makueni addressed.

Although about 98 percent of the households have access to improved drinking water, the reliability of water supply stands at 81 percent, the population and housing census of Bhutan (PHCB) 2017 report states.
The report states that about 98.6 percent of the total households have access to improved drinking water as of 2017 compared to 84.5 percent in 2005.
This is 18 percent of the total households.
According to BLSS 2017, about 63 percent of households responded to have 24 hours access to drinking water.
The report also shows that 69 percent of the total households without reliable water sources are in rural areas.
While 98.6 percent of the total households have access to improved drinking water sources, about 2,231 households depend on unimproved water sources, which includes unprotected well, spring, rivers, streams, lake, pond, dam and other sources as the main source of drinking water.
With 360 households, Chukha has the maximum households using unprotected water sources.
Other households have piped water inside the dwelling, piped water outside the dwelling, protected well or spring, and rainwater collection as the main source of drinking water.
The report states that about 77,996 households, which is about 47 percent of the total, have piped water inside the dwelling.
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Water companies have urged UK households to conserve supplies as the country continues to bask in a near record-breaking June heatwave.
The hot weather is likely to remain, with the sun expected to shine throughout the weekend and temperatures in the high 20s across much of Britain.
“In recent days our treatment works have been operating at near maximum levels with over 700m litres of water being put into the network, which is some 25% more than is normal for this time of the year,” she said.
“Despite these steps, demand continues to outstrip supply.
It would be our intention to introduce a formal hose pipe ban in an effort to protect the public against the increased threat of supply interruptions.” Huge spikes in demand for water at morning and evening peak times mean utility companies are having to pump billions more litres of water into the system, but they say it is often being used by customers as fast as it is supplied.
“Demand for water is massively up thanks to several weeks of extremely hot weather,” said Doug Clarke of Severn Trent.
The dry weather has forced some farmers to take desperate measures to keep their cattle alive.
Guy Smith, the deputy president of the National Farmers Union, said his farm had not seen any rain at all in June and that it was “getting to the point where rain won’t help”.
Andrew Webster, who runs a Jersey and Guernsey herd near Ashbourne, asked his water supplier Severn Trent to send a tanker for his 70 cows.
He was offered only bottled water.

Access to sanitation services for households in Dakar remained very difficult in the first quarter of 2018, the results of a recent socio-economic survey conducted by the Directorate of Forecasting and Economic Studies (DPEE) show.According to the survey, only 26.8 percent of households in Dakar have access to sanitation; most households in Dakar have ample access to drinking water with a rate of 91.6 percent; and a higher rate was recorded for access to electricity supply (95.1 percent).
In the field of education, the average schooling rate for children over the age of six years stands at 88.1 percent in Dakar.
The rate is 89.6 percent in average families, compared to 85.7 percent in large families.
“The proportion of households with working children under 18 years is 2.1 percent (2.6 percent for large families, against 1.2 percent in average families)”.
In addition, 12.8 percent of large families have third-party children, compared with 3.7 percent for average families.
With regards to food, the majority of the families surveyed (80.1 percent) provide three meals a day, compared to 12.4 percent of households that eat only two meals a day.
Inflation and power cuts were the main shocks suffered by households in the first quarter of 2018.
Thus, 50.2 percent of respondents complained of an increase in the general level of consumer prices, while 29.3 percent of households are affected by power cuts.
Job loss and the incapacity of the main source of support respectively were complained of by 2.5 percent and 1.3 percent of the respondents.

UNICEF has been in the country for more than 20 years and have been working in different areas.
That means, only two-thirds of the population have access to safe drinking water sources.
Having access to sources is one thing but then the quality of the water that is been used by people for drinking purposes at the household level is different, because the source is somewhere in nature.
There are so many things that can be done by the people in the community to ensure they have safe drinking water.
First of all, meeting WASH objectives, we need to make WASH a priority in the national agenda.
One part will cover capital investment to construct new water systems and sanitation systems in areas that have not been served before.
So that at the end, they can get the water they need at the household level suitable for drinking.
PT: How much has UNICEF spent so far as part of its support for the WASH project?
Jurji: Like I said, it’s over 20 years UNICEF has been working in Nigeria, so I do not have access to that figure.
These, people will have to make sure the source is free from any contamination.

The City of Cape Girardeau issued a precautionary boil-water order advisory Monday for about 20 households on North Water Street because of a water-main break.
The boil-water advisory applies to households in the 1300 and 1400 blocks of North Water Street, according to a new release from city hall.
City officials said the advisory is expected to remain in effect until about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Crews with the water division/Alliance Water Resources planned to go door-to-door in an effort to directly notify customers, the news release stated.
Residents may contact the water division at (573) 339-6357 for more information.
Pertinent address: 1300 block of North Water Street, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
1400 block of North Water Street, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

A study conducted during the worst Ebola virus epidemic on record identified risk factors for transmission of the disease among household contacts, along with other factors that can be protective, including access to piped drinking water.
For their study, Mary R. Reichler, MD, researcher in the CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, and colleagues enrolled 150 Ebola patients and 845 of their household contacts in and around the capital of Freetown, Sierra Leone, which saw widespread transmission during the West African Ebola epidemic.
Study participants were enrolled from Dec. 15, 2014 — just after the peak of the Freetown epidemic — through April 30, 2015.
Among the 838 household contacts included in the study, 9.9% developed Ebola, including 74 confirmed and nine probable cases, Reichler and colleagues reported.
Less than 1% of the contacts reported touching the body of an index patient after their death — a major risk factor for infection because most Ebola patients die at peak viremia, the researchers noted.
According to their analysis, the risk for household transmission among study participants was 3.5-fold higher when an index patient died.
The household transmission rate was also higher when an index patient had symptoms of Ebola infection but no reported fever, spent more days with wet symptoms — vomiting, diarrhea or bleeding — or was aged younger than 20 years.
According to Reichler and colleagues, avoiding the index patient and having access to piped drinking water — likely because it facilitated better hygiene practices — were associated with lower transmission rates.
They said efforts to minimize contact with Ebola patients by designating one care provider per household could minimize the risk in future outbreaks.
“These could include optimizing community educational messaging about risk factors and protective measures, increasing suspicion of [Ebola virus disease] based on the presence of symptoms with or without fever, and developing approaches to prioritize identifying and managing high-risk contacts.” – by Gerard Gallagher Disclosures: The authors report no relevant financial disclosures.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Water Well Trust, the only national nonprofit helping Americans get access to a clean, safe water supply, is seeking low income households from three counties in New York to receive new water wells or rehabilitate existing wells.
In October 2016, the USDA awarded a $52,081 grant to the Water Well Trust through its Household Water Well Systems Grant program for a project to increase potable water availability to rural households in three New York counties — Delaware, Rensselaer, and Columbia.
Funds are still available for low-interest loans to eligible individual households for a new water well or rehabilitation of an existing water well.
To be eligible to receive a WWT loan, applicants must be the owner and occupant of the home as their primary residence.
In addition, the applicant’s household income must not exceed 100 percent of the median non-metropolitan household income for the state in which the applicant resides.
The 2017 median non-metropolitan household income for New York is $62,500.
The income criteria apply to both the applicant and all other occupants of the home.
The Water Well Trust (WWT) is a 501(c)3 organization created by the Water Systems Council to provide a clean water supply to American families living without access to a precious resource most of us take for granted.
For more information, visit waterwelltrust.org.
Contact: Margaret Martens, Program Director Water Well Trust, mmartens@watersystemscouncil.org or 202-625-4383.