Natural Resources: Water conservation

Conservation of water is important. Image credit voanews.com

• Water conservation is the management of water resources in ways that prevent them from pollution.
• It includes all the policies, strategies and activities made to sustainably manage the natural resource fresh water.
• It also involves strategies to protect the water environment and to meet the current and future human demand.
• Population, household size, and growth and affluence all affect how much water is used.
• Building dams to harness run off for future use.
• Fencing off wetlands that is vleis and springs to prevent animals compacting the soils around these water sponges.
• Collecting water from roofs and dwalas and storing it in tanks for future use.
• Reducing consumption of water by controlling the rate of population growth to match the natural replenishing rate of water.
• Desalinization of sea water for human consumption and industrial use. (This operation is quite costly).

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