Conserve Water

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Conserve Water

 Why Save Water

As Bangalore’s population and area grows, more and more people are sharing the same water resources. As a result, conserving water is becoming increasingly important.
Saving water is one of the most effective ways to make the best use of our existing water resources and help protect the environment. It also saves money.
Across Bangalore ,daily we use enough water around our homes enough to cater every
one’s requirement in few more new layouts. With a little effort, we can all ease the load on our
existing water supplies and resources while saving money at the same time.
Saving water is also important for reducing the pressure on our sewerage treatment systems
and waterways. Every day BWSSB treats up to approximately 418 million litres of wastewater or
sewage (This include 60 MLD +10 MLD tertiary treatment capacity). That is the wastewater that
comes from sinks, showers, toilets, and backyard drains is almost equal to three stages of
Cauvery projects.
This wastewater is treated at one of 6 sewerage treatment plants. Treated wastewater is
then discharged to waterways, or recycled for re-use as bio-solids.

How To Save Water In House

Tips to Conserve water in Bathroom

  • Don’t run water when washing the dishes ,Brushing your teeth, washing your hands or face or shaving or brushing.
  • Close taps tightly
  • Replace damaged/leakage pipes,Taps valves to avoid overflow and wastage
  • A leaking toilet can waste upto 16,000 litres of water per year
Tips to Conserve water in Kitchen
  • Wash Vegetables in a bowl of water, washing the cleanest ones first. use this water for your plants.
Tips to Conserve water while Washing
  • Wash vechicles with a bucket and sponge instead of hose, which uses 400 liter of water. By using a bucket upto 300 liters can be saved.
  • While buying a new washing machine, choose one that is water efficient. you could save a substantial amount of water, as well as money,over the life of the machine.
  • Most washing machines have a load adjustment button or dial, so try to set this to match the amount of washing you’re doing. If your machine doesn’t have a load adjustment function, try to wait until you have enough washing for a full load.
Tips to Conserve In Garden
  • Choose plants that are native to area you live or drought resistant plants for landscaping and gardens .
  • Water lawns and gardens during the coolest part of the day
  • Collect rainwater in large tubs of cans and use it to water plants
  • Avoid using pesticides,herbicides and fungicides in the garden for they seep into the garden and pollute ground water

Other Few Common Tips

Fix leaking taps,Pipes etc., immediately and check regulary for leaks
Never put Water down the drain when there may be another use for it for watering a plant or garden or cleaning
Do not let your overhead tank overflow. Regulate the time.
Never flush garbage down a toilet. It will ultimately end up in our water streams and river.
Reuse water whenever possible.
Use water responsibly.
Do not fix pumps directly to the line.
Do not branch off pipe before the meter point.

What BWSSB has done to conserve water?

Two major Teriary Treatment Plants such as Yelahanka 10 MLD plant and
Vrishabhavathi valley 60 MLD plant have been completed and commissioned to
make available an total 70 MLD of Tertiary treated water for industries and
non-domestic purpose at a very affordable rates.It will help to conserve 70 MLD of
fresh portable water.BWSSB has started an project to reduce Leakage in the distribution system to
a remarkable level, adopting international technologies in a pilot aea, at a cost of
Rs. 48 crores with JBIC funding assistance.The Project will be extended to
entire Bangalore in the comming years at a total cost of Rs.400 crores.The water
thus saved will be almost equal to a new Cauvery Project.This enables 7 day
water supply and improve revenue flow by 20% – 30%.