The Summer season is here. Time, when people will ‘feel the need’ to use more water. The need might not be there but people might just ‘feel they want to use’ more water to keep cool.
Since America or should I say the industrial revolution invented the consumerist culture, people have been taught how to ask for more and more of everything. Water wastage is a result of that thought process. Apart from other consumer items, people want more and more of water, because they know it is VERY important to life and also that it was being made available in taps for people to use AS
AND WHEN NEEDED.
This attitude has turned into a habit and EVERY DAY you imagine the amount of water that gets wasted without NOT a drop of it being put to use.
Example 1. Washing a simple utensil - a glass
People have a tendency to believe that the force of the water will clean the glass so they open the tap to the full, use a lot of soap and rub the glass mildly with either a scrubber or a sponge.
The big mistake here is, the tendency to think that the water will clean the glass, rather than using your hands to wash the surface better.
Using even a small amount of water AND a small amount of Soap but more force with your hands will give you better results but people don’t want to ‘dirty their hands’
Example 2. Washing clothes
Before washing machines came along, people used to watch the clothes manually. Used to take in buckets and buckets of water to be able to wash just a few clothes.
Again the same thought - the water by its force and volume will wash the clothes.
There are several such examples I can go and everyone will identify with, which waste a HUGE amount of water all of it going down the drain with no utility value.
In contrast, look at animals.
If you see any animal drinking water, there is NOT A DROP that gets wasted when they consume that precious resource.
Apart from washing when they do spray around water, while drinking, rarely have you come across any animal that would purposely waste water rather than consuming it and giving itself the much needed relief.
Doesn’t this show how arrogant the human race has become.. that we take EVERYthing for granted?
One step that governments - if they are POLITICALLY willing '" and people - if they are seriously CONSCIOUS and CARE about less wastage - can take is to ensure different design of taps.
Taps should be classified as household and industrial depending on the place of use. Just as you have industrial switch gear and household switch gear.
Household tapgear should allow less volumes of water to flow through. They must be designed so that they allow only a specific rate of water flow so that within that rate of flow, and with suitable pressure of the human or any machine support, the washing purpose is
achieved.
Main purpose is for people to be made conscious that if they regulate the flow of water, they can actually still get their jobs done and ALSO be able to conserve water.
A simple conscious and a very determined step like this will definitely bring more discipline in the common masses AROUND the world;
This DISCIPLINE is the most important thing people need to get into them as quickly as possible in order to avert huge wastage of water and also other resources that we as individuals waste without thinking.
But unfortunate, the human brain and mind have been corrupted by the human practice of seeking luxury and ease of life and they have become so habituated to them that if tomorrow, there will be very less water available, people would prefer to probably kill and die than to take the middle path of changing the way they need to perceive things and
changing their lifestyles and still be able to share the limited resources.
Another reason to prove why the humankind experiment is so very flawed.
A once in a lifetime moment… for those who don’t observe nature 
