Our Environment

How to Save Water in Everyday Life

Water is not an unlimited resource.  Here in Dubai we are living in a desert with little naturally available water to drink or grow food.  Even in regions abundant with water, water levels can run low when a long period of dry weather with little rain and snow continues.
Saving water is often just as easy as turning off a faucet!
These simple tips will show you what you can do at home to save water and money:

• Don’t keep the water running while you’re brushing your teeth.
• Don’t run water until it gets cold without collecting it; this water is ideal for pot plants and garden flowers.
• Take shorter showers or use less bath water.  When showering, try to keep an egg timer in the bathroom to see if you can get your shower down to three minutes… while still getting clean!
• Fix dripping faucet – it can waste as much as 50 liters of water (and plenty of dirhams!) per day.
• Install a water saving shower head – it saves water and also reduces water heating costs, not to mention the fuel that would have been necessary to heat the extra water.  Saving fuel also prevents pollution.
• Water the lawn or garden in the evening or early in the morning – you lose less to evaporation.
  

So let’s not waste our water, but use it wisely.