Fresh water is essential for life - it allows us to produce food, manufacture goods and sustain our health.
Australia is one of the driest populated continents on earth and we are the one of the greatest consumers of water per person.
Of course we can always capture and store more water but:
- Building more dams destroys the wilderness, creates extra greenhouse gases from rotting vegetation, alters the flow of rivers destroying habitat for fish, animals and plants.
- De-salination of sea water requires a large amounts of energy during processing contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emmissions. Plants are usually located on the shore and so affect the coastline ecosystem. Large amounts of sealife are sucked into the process and then high concentrations of salt and associated chemicals are returned to the sea. The full impacts long term are not fully understood.
It is obvious that we need water and that we need to use the water we have wisely.
Excessive use and waste of water not only causes problems to us directly having to then make up for the short fall of water also impacts significantly on the Planet.
Use the Litre Meter, control your water use and help Save the Planet.
Fresh water is essential for life - it allows us to produce food, manufacture goods and sustain our health.
Australia is one of the driest populated continents on earth and we are the one of the greatest consumers of water per person.
Of course we can always capture and store more water but:
- Building more dams destroys the wilderness, creates extra greenhouse gases from rotting vegetation, alters the flow of rivers destroying habitat for fish, animals and plants.
- De-salination of sea water requires a large amounts of energy during processing contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emmissions. Plants are usually located on the shore and so affect the coastline ecosystem. Large amounts of sealife are sucked into the process and then high concentrations of salt and associated chemicals are returned to the sea. The full impacts long term are not fully understood.
It is obvious that we need water and that we need to use the water we have wisely.
Excessive use and waste of water not only causes problems to us directly having to then make up for the short fall of water also impacts significantly on the Planet.
Use the Litre Meter, control your water use and help Save the Planet.