How do we save water and save earth?

Question

How do we save water and save earth?

Answer 1

conserve it now

Answer 2

Rain harvesting

Answer 3

by taking personal responsibility for investing in sustainable, renewable and highly efficient life style.  Buy a hybrid, install a few solar panels.

Answer 4

Use paper after u sh|t.

Collect yo sh|t n use it as manure which will fertilize soil n help grow trees whil will stop soil erosion.Also,these trees will make up for da paper u'r wastin on yo *ss after u sh|t.

Dun use toothpaste n stuff.U waste too much water washin it off.Chew on a neem twig instead.Its much better for da teeth.

Dun use writin paper.Why da heck dya think da comp has wordpad n notepad?!Use dat!

Answer 5

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The typical household in the developed world uses upwards of 260 gallons of water per day -- whoa! The good news is that by making a few quick changes, spending as little as $30 and replacing faucets and showers with low-flow fixtures can cut out about 45 of those gallons each day (that's about 18%); if you splurge on a low-flow toilet, you're down to almost half the water, saving lots of precious H2O but also saving you money on your water and electricity/gas bill (depending on how your water is heated). Here are a few specific ideas and products for saving some water (and some bucks) when you step into the shower.

1) Low-flow showerheads like Bricor's shiny showerhead and this model from Gaiam (they used to be Real Goods: here's an updated link to purchase one) with a pause button cut back the flow to 1 gallon per minute (GPM), which, depending on your current shower, could save you two to four gallons each minute you're in the shower.

2) The Aqua Helix takes it a step further, squeezing out just 1/2 GPM.

3) TreeHugger TV offers some advice for increased shower efficiency: bring a friend, and make good use of the Tiara showerhead. Two heads are better than one...

4) If you're worried that cutting down the flow too low will adversely affect the water pressure, the Neco showerhead offers some middle ground: it pumps out 1.9 GPM and uses a "patented vacuum flow technology" that renders a higher pressure than other low-flow showers, giving a spray sensation roughly equivalent to most 2.5 GPM showerheads.

5) A shower timer is a helpful way to remind yourself not to dawdle too long under your new low-flow showerhead.

Answer 6

Earth does not need saving it will survive for billiuons of years to come .

better think about saving humanity ,because we are heading for big problems and so is all of the surface life

EFFICIENT WATER USE

IN THE HOUSE

one can connect the sink straight to the toilet sistern and so use the water twice ,first to have a shave and then to flush the toilet

also if you bend the ball valve you can regulate the level of the sistern

and always have your grey water and black water seperate

so that the sink and shower water goes directly into the garden saving on irregation and at the same time ,making the sewage smaller and easier to deal with ,this also goes and iregates the garden but via a sitern of two compartments and a french drain ,on which you plant trees,

ON THE LAND

economic systems of irregation like drip irregation

and design using a lot of stone walls ,that condense water in the night

and planting leafy plants for the same purpose

building wind breaks ,to counter act the drying effects of the wind and farm towards agro forestal ,using as many trees as posible to limit evaporation .using shade nets before we have tree cover

and use MULCH

by cutting down the weeds before they produce seeds and leave them where they fall,they will cover the ground and put even more organic matter on top,you can use saw dust,leaves green or dry,and when you plant make a little space and plant in the mulch.this is the easiest quickest and by far most benificial way(for the quality of you soil)to prepare the land for planting

to prevent weeds from coming all you have to do it turn out the lights,you can even use cardboard or black plastic(this is good for strawberries because they will rot if they touch humid ground,and the bugs can get to them).

mulch is the same principal as compost but it includes the whole garden surface

the top part of the soil where the topsoil is being produced houses a world or microbiotic life.

Mulch is organic material green or dry that covers the ground,the thicker the better the composting process will turn it in to black topsoil

the humidity is preserved underneath and promotes the devellopment of worms(their exists no better compost than their excrements)and a variety of micro biotic life which together with the mulch produce more topsoil.

the mulch also keeps the ground temperature even and guards against the impact of the rain ,which would other wise brings salt to the surfave if on unprotected land

Mulch also prevents the soil from drying out because of the sun and,

WATERHARVESTING

the natural way of nature is to evaporate moisture for clouds and this gets blown to places with less water any way ,what obstruct the clouds from getting to deserts ,tend to be mountains that are in the way,

but generally speaking ,the normal weather patterns spread rain evenly over the planet to balance out the temperatures and humidity.

As far as catching rain is concerned ,we do this all the time ,and have done so already since Babylonian times,and is a part of the more advanced Agriculture,that existed with the Egyptians,Central ,and south American indigenous peoples,and many others ,today we call this water harvesting.

In Permaculture the rule is to harvest water to the point of Zero runoff.

this means that all of the rain that falls on an area is absorbed by the terrain and not a drop leaves it.

by building dams,ponds or swales, with interconecting ditches,

if there are enough of these ;the places ,where before the rain water ran over the ground into the rivers and on to the sea ,(in a matter of hours or days),It now runs into absorbant dams or swales and saturates the ground and eventually reaches subteranean water deposits ,taking many months to do so.

Or it fills up ponds that can be used for Aquaculture.

And so a convex situation that repels water is transformed in a concave ,absorbant one and turning the area in to a sponge.

in Spain and Portugal ,which still display many examples of the conquering Moorish influence,One can find many remnants of Waterharvesting,such as aquaducts and tanks underneath the patios ,which collect the rain water from the roofs ,to be used in dryer times.

in Arabia ,on a large scale ,land has been shaped to catch and lead,rain water into sandy areas or to agricultural lands.sand is almost as good as dams because it absorbs water and holds it.

to find out more about Water harvesting I recomend:

the designers manual by Bil Mollison,which cost about 40 dollars.

and is the best all round book you can get.(tagiari publishing, [e-mail])

some other writers that are on the internet are

david Holmgren

Larry Santoyo

Kirk Hanson

Masanobu Fukuaka has written ,

One-Straw Revolution

The Road Back to Nature

The Natural Way of Farming

http://www.context.org/iclib/ic14/fukuok...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/masanobu_fu...

Simon Henderson

and Bill Molisson.

a representitive of the concept in USA is

Dan Hemenway at [e-mail]

[e-mail]

http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames....

http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ypc_catalo... Source(s) I am a permaculture consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government of Guerrero in Mexico

http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Answer 7

Don't flush when you only do #1.

Cut down on the length of your showers & watering your lawn/plants.

Don't let the water run when you brush your teeth and wask dishes.

Answer 8

It's not quantity of water we use....the quantity of water is constant ,the question is how  and where we use it? and there must be best treatment to get drinkable water.To achieve this hydrology cycle we need more trees and plantation to reduce pollution and rapid process to expedite the hydrology cycle..if we do this u will get more easily pure water and save the earth.

Answer 9

Water amd earth are always definite and finite. They donot change. May be your question should be how do we have access to good water and thereby save the earth.

Answer 10

Water is a permanent chemical. Very little of it is broken down to hydrogen and oxygen. Likewise very little is created by combustion of hydrogen. When fuels burn some is produced along with carbon-di-oxide, again negligible globally. The earth needs little haelp on this count.

What changes is the amount and quality of fresh water. So what we save is ourselves and we better start doing it immedately following all the excellent suggestions made in the above answers.

Answer 11

1.do not waste water

2.recycle water used in kitchen and bath. it can used for watering the plants.

3.do not pollute water sources

4. repair leaky taps.

5. conserve rain water by rain water harvesting.

6. build dams across major rivers and do not allow excess water to flow into the seas.

7.allow rain water to seep into the ground and build storage of under ground water.

8.grow more trees  to have good rain fall.