Harvest Rainwater and a Host of Benefits

Harvest Rainwater and a Host of Benefits

Advantage of Rainwater Harvesting

·       Easy to maintain

·       Reduce water bills.

·       Suitable for irrigation.

·       Reduces demand on ground water.

·       Rain water can be used for a variety of operations.

·       No wasting money on water tankers.

·       No Water shortage due to water cuts.

·       Recover installation cost within 2 – 3 Years due to savings in water bills.

·       Savings of up to 200 liters of water per family in the society per day.

·       Simple designs and concepts.

·       Quick and easy to install.

·       You join the happy family of conservationists.

·       It recharges ground water.

Disadvantage of Rainwater Harvesting

·       Unpredictable Rainfall

·       Initial high cost

·       Regular Maintenance

·       Certain roof types may seep chemicals or Animals droppings

·       Storage limits.

             

50 REASONS TO DRINK A GLASS OF WATER

50 REASONS TO DRINK A GLASS OF WATER

• People living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.

• Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness.
• On an average 1 in 6 women in India spend 2 hours a day sourcing and collecting water.
• Most illnesses are caused by fecal matter contaminating water.
• More people have a mobile than a toilet in their homes.
• Water consists of three atoms, 2 Hydrogen atoms and an Oxygen atom; they are bond together due to electrical charges.

• The earth is a closed system, similar to a terrarium, meaning that it rarely loses or gains extra matter. The same water that existed on the earth millions of years ago is still present today.
• Water moves around the earth in a water cycle. The water cycle has five parts: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration and surface run-off.
• The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles or 844 million cubic kilometers.
• Of all the water on the earth, humans can use only about one third. Such usable water is found in groundwater aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.
• Almost 70 - 75 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
• Much more fresh water is stored under the ground in aquifers than on the earth’s surface.

• Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
• In a 100-year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.
• Most of the earth's surface water is permanently frozen or salty.
• Water regulates the earth's temperature.
• Water freezes at zero degrees Celcius.
• Water vaporizes at a hundred degrees Celcius.
• Water is the only substance that is found naturally on earth in three forms: liquid, gas, solid.
• Frozen water is 9% lighter than water, which is why ice floats on water.
• When water contains a lot of calcium and magnesium, it is called hard water. Hard water is not suited for all purposes water is normally used for.
• Each day the sun evaporates a trillion tons of water.
• A single tree will give off 265 liters of water per day by way of evaporation.
• Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
• While the daily recommended amount of water is eight glasses a day, not all of this water must be consumed in the liquid form. Nearly every food or drink provides some water to the body.
• Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.
• Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of water in domestic use.

• By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water weight.
• The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war does.
• The total amount of water in the body of an average adult is 37 litres.
• Human brains are 75 percent water.
• Human bones are 25 percent water.
• Human blood is 83 percent water.
• Almost 75 percent of a chicken is water.
• Close to 80 percent of a pineapple is water.
• 95 percent of a tomato is water.
• 70 percent of an elephant is water.
• A dripping tap can waste as much as 75 litres of water a day.
• A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water. If a human body does not absorb enough water dehydration is the result.
• A person must consume 2 litres of water daily to live healthily. Humans drink an average of 75,000 litres of water throughout their life.
• Human beings cannot drink salt water.
• Water regulates the temperature of the human body. If you have caught fever, you should drink lots of water.
• Water removes toxins from the human body.
• Water leaves the stomach five minutes after consumption.
• Less than 1 percent of the water treated by public water systems (such as BWSSB) is used for drinking and cooking.
• It takes 450 litres of water to produce one egg.
• About 25,700 litres of water is required to grow a day's food for a family of four.
• A total of 1,48,000 litres of water is used to manufacture one car.
• The world's average rainfall is about 850 mm.
• More than half the creatures on the Earth are found under water.