In 15 years, the demand for water will surpass its supply by 40 per cent.
Need to conserve Water conservation reduces energy use and can even save households money.
The less water used or wasted by people, the less clean water will become contaminated.
It is imperative that people take steps to conserve water, or else the world will face an increasingly severe water deficit.” Plugging the leaks A tap that drips once every second waste about 1000 litres of water every month.
Aabid Surti, cartoonist, resident of Mira Road took up the task of fixing the taps in the area after he found out that one or the other tap dripping is a common sight in every house.
Surti said, “Fixing a tap could help save tens of thousands of litres of clean water in a year and save individual household a lot of money in the process.
Till date he has fixed leaking taps in more than 10,000 homes in the last seven years and saved several millions of litres of water.
Simple and effective Rainwater harvesting systems are simple to build and operate.
Aniket Godbole, who has been promoting rainwater harvesting in housing societies in Mumbai and has implemented it in nearly 17 of them successfully, says, “A terrace of 1,000 sq ft can save up to 2.24 lakh litres of rainwater during monsoon.
Wells must be cleaned every five years so that water can be used for drinking.” There are more than 1000 wells in the city but only few of them are being used by residents.