How to reuse water

The environmental and economic effects of water reuse have been studying in numerous research from countries around the world. The reason for the interest and awareness of these Water saving and reuse measures? There are clearly several answers, including the urgency for have enough water To meet the daily needs of the population in the face of the times of abrupt droughts and environmental changes that hit the availability of water from many countries, both of the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere of the planet. Here you can learn more about this problem, since in this other post we talk about what drought, its causes and consequences is.

It is no longer enough to manage or dose the amounts of water that we consume for domestic and/or leisure uses and maintenance of vehicles, plants and animals with which we live, but at present, we must act with measures of Water reuse and recyclingthat is, give new uses, not discard it after the first use we make of it and have new and ingenious tools that allow us to get the most out of the least possible amount of water.

In the next sections we will see in more detail What to do to reuse water and become experts and experts of water recycling.

Water reuse is a practice that covers diverse and numerous methods that allow us to use with new use the water we have used to cook, scrub, etc. The new use that we give to this water will be very beneficial, both for our pocket (saving us consume more water and pay for those more liters), and for the environment, since we know that the lack of water due to droughts and sudden weather changes is increasingly affecting more areas of the planet. To explain How to reuse waterlet’s put some examples and advice to learn and/or improve our water reuse habits:

Water reuse with domestic uses

• Food cooking water: The preparation of various dishes and stews (such as pasta, soaking legumes and boiled vegetables), as well as the simple washing and rinse of fruits and vegetables, make it possible for us to give new use to the water that is left over and that we generally throw the sink without more. Therefore, it will be very advantageous to take advantage of this excess water to make broths, sauces and rice; counting on the numerous minerals and vitamins that water maintains of its previous use.
• Shower water: Do you know how much water is consumed in the shower? During the shower we spend between 30 and 40 liters of water daily per person. We can get an idea of ​​how exorbitant this figure is and the need to try to take advantage and reuse this water. To do this, various methods, such as the placement of plastic bags, bottles or other containers, allow us to store the water while we shower and use it later to supply the toilet for example, or to wash the dishes (taking into account the remains of the chemicals such as soaps and shampoos that we have used).
• WASTE WASTE WATER: Did you know that for every kilo of clothes we wash in the washing machine, about 9 liters of water are consumed? This appliance that facilitates and speeds up the washing of our garments is one of the main consumers of domestic water. Therefore, it is more than advantageous to place a mechanism that allows us to obtain, through a pipe connected to the appliance itself, excess water after washing and store it in some drum. Subsequently, we can reuse it to wash cars and motorcycles, as well as for scrubbing soils and courtyards.
• Air conditioning water: It is also very useful to take advantage of the water that these devices usually detach when cooling the air, simply placing a bottle at the end of the water outlet tube they give off. This accumulated water can use it without problems to wash clothes by hand and/or dishes, as well as to iron the clothes.

Reuse water irrigation water

After the correct filtration of water in the substrate of the pots of ornamental, medicinal or culinary plants that we have at home, we can reuse the excess water that accumulates in the plates placed under the pot for new risks and care of these plants.

Reuse the water used at home for our animals

Normally, the water used to bathe our animals will be useful to reuse it in the toilet tank or to have it in the sweep or cube by hand to use it for that purpose, instead of pulling the chain, while the water that results when cleaning and maintaining an aquarium for fish may be useful for watering plants of the garden, since it contains numerous minerals and organic substances as a result of the life of the fish in this water.

Together with the numerous methods of reuse of water for domestic use that we have seen in the previous section, we can add another easy and effective measure, this time, based on the Rainwater reuse. Without all, diverse and ingenious methods serve to get the water that falls during the rainy times, wherever the corner of the planet we live in.

Placing drums or any other suitable container to store the water that falls from the rain through the roofs of the houses and buildings or even the water that falls directly into soils and gardens, we can store and distribute water according to the needs we want to cover in our day to day.

To learn more about this, we recommend reading this other ecology article on recycling rainwater for consumption.

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