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WATER WASTE THROUGH TAP

Single drip won't waste much water, but think about each faucet in your house dripping a bit for a whole day. What will happen if every faucet in each house….. In your apartment ... in your town ... in your state also dripped? These drips would add upto a flood of water wasted down the drain.

There is no scientific definition to calculate the volume of a faucet drip, but after measuring a number of kitchen and bathroom sink faucets.

FOR OUR CALCULATIONS BELOW (NUMBERS ARE ROUNDED):

We are going to use 1/4 millilitre (ml) as the volume of a faucet drip. By these drip estimates:

One gallon = 15,140 drips

One litre = 4,000 drips

According to this estimation we are waste 5litre of water in each faucet in our house.

WATER WASTE IN GARDENING

Saving water in the garden is just as important as saving water in the home. It is very much precious to save water in the garden mainly for two reasons.

First, to save money if you have on a water meter - 40% of us, rising.

Second, because at peak demand up to 70% of our water supply can be used in gardens, which forces suppliers to use groundwater and take it from streams. This can cause environmental damage and increase water prices.

WATER WASTE THROUGH SURFACE RUNOFF

Surface runoff water is from rain, snow melt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle. Runoff that occurs on surfaces before reaching a channel is also called overland flow.

Urbanization increases surface runoff, by creating more impervious surfaces such as pavement and buildings do not allow percolation of the water down through the soil to the aquifer. Increased runoff reduces groundwater recharge, thus lowering the water table and making droughts worse, especially for farmers and others who depend on water wells

STORMWATER RUNOFF

Due to polluted and unsaved storm water we are wasting our resources as well as we are polluting it by letting it directly into water without treating it with water treatment plant. When runoff flows on the ground, it can pick up soil contaminants such as petroleum, pesticides, or fertilizers that become discharge or overland flow.

CHENNAI FLOOD

The 2015 South Indian floods resulted from heavy rainfall generated by the annual northeast monsoon in November–December 2015. They affected the coromandel coast region of the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, and the union territory of Pondicherry, with Tamil Nadu and the city of Chennai particularly hard-hit. More than 500 people were killed and over 18 lakh (1.8 million) people were displaced. Estimates of damages and losses ranging from nearly ₹200 billion (US$3 billion) to over ₹1 trillion (US$15 billion). This floods were the costliest to have occurred in 2015, and were among the costliest natural disasters of the year

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