Water use Flashcards
Why is water use increasing?
Hi domestic use (i. e. Household appliances like dishwashers), increasing global wealth, increasing Industries, lots of agriculture (farming), increasing global population, changing lifestyles e. g. Changing diets.
What are the effects of increasing water demand?
We need to extract (remove) water from the ground which is costly to achieve. Less food grown as water supplies lower. Farmers struggle to farm. More health issues and water related deaths.
How are we conserving, saving, water?
Water metres in homes, hosepipe bans in times of low rainfall, using grey water to flush toilets. Example: Ethiopia have constructed a network of pipes to a fresh water spring high up in the mountains which delivers water to 10 public taps. WaterAid helped set this up. It provides water to 65,000 people but it will be very expensive to replace. The scheme did not involve education about how to maintain the pipes so disease has increased. Something farmers are using too much of the water.
