In addition to saving money on your utility bill, water conservation helps prevent water pollution in nearby lakes, rivers, and local watersheds.
Conserving water also prevents greenhouse gas emissions associated with treating and distributing water.
Conserving water can also extend the life of your septic system by reducing soil saturation and reducing pollution due to leaks.
Overloading municipal sewer systems can also cause untreated sewage to flow to lakes and rivers.
The smaller the amount of water flowing through these systems, the lower the likelihood of pollution.
In some communities, costly sewage system expansion has been avoided by community-wide household water conservation.
Ready for Agriculture (Irrigation)
Indian economy is primarily an agricultural one. To run its agricultural operations smoothly throughout the year, controlled, assured and continuous water supply through irrigation system is very important.
Adequate quantities of water should be readily available within the root zone of all kinds of plant life. Such water if not present in the soil naturally, may be applied by irrigation or be derived directly from rainfall during the crop season.
We cannot depend upon rainfall completely as one third of the earth’s surface receives less than 250 mm of yearly rainfall and that another one third receives only 250 to 500 mm creating a necessity for adopting some irrigation method.
In India various sources of irrigation include canals, wells including tube wells, tanks and other sources.
The irrigation works in India are classified into major, medium and minor irrigation works classified on the basis of cost of these projects.
Due to the introduction of these different sources of irrigation, the area sown more than once can be increased in a drastic rate.
Ready for Industrial usage
Industrial water reuse and recycling is the process by which wastewater produced from one source is treated so it can be used in an industrial process. Sometimes the source wastewater may be produced by the same industrial facility that treats it and reuses it.
Industrial wastewater can be recycled on or off site depending on space constraints and budgetary considerations.
Recycling wastewater is important for the environment as it avoids straining drought-stricken areas and natural habitats such as wetlands.
The need to recycle and reuse wastewater, decreases the plant's water footprint and is beneficial to the company and the community.
Few of the core benefits of recycling industrial wastewater would be reducing fresh water costs, increasing operational efficiency, reducing wastewater flows and improving production capacity due to increase availability of clean water
The idea of ground water recharging by harvesting rainwater is gaining importance in many cities.
Water conservation is the practice of using water efficiently to reduce unnecessary water usage.
Water conservation includes all the policies, strategies and activities to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, to protect the hydrosphere, and to meet the current and future human demand.
Ready for Ecological balance
Green Initiatives, River Linking
Ecology is the science of the study of ecosystems.
The most important point being that the natural balance in an ecosystem is maintained.
This would also include maintaining the natural balance amidst the water bodies
River Linking is a project of linking two or more rivers by creating a network of manually created canals, and providing land areas that otherwise does not have river water access and reducing the flow of water to sea
Problems related to flood control, irrigation, limiting droughts and boosting farm output—can be sorted out by linking the country’s rivers.
