Climate Change: What can I do 3

Hello Everyone,

I hope you’ve all been having an awesome day.

Day 3 is here and with it comes new ways to fight climate change. New ways to save the world!

3. Water

Water is one of the fundamentals of all life on Earth and most likely for all life in the universe, without it we would all die. The water we get from our taps though,  is treated to make sure that it is clean and free of harmful bacteria and bugs so that we do not get ill from drinking. The process of making water safe is very simple with water taken from a reservoir (or somewhere similar). The water is pumped from the source through various filters that filter out any harmful particles and chemicals. Once filtered the water has chlorine added into it so that harmful bugs and bacteria are killed off before being pumped to our taps at home.

All of the pumping used for the processes unfortunately require fossil fuels to get the water from point a to point b. Furthermore, the water is sometimes not transported through pipes, as this isn’t always possible, but in large vessels carried by trucks and lorries which are in turn burning fossil fuels. All of this can’t be helped by us on a personal level because we do need the water and we do need it clean so that we can drink it but, there is a huge way in which we can help. We can help very simply by making every drop of water count so that water treatments don’t have to be done as frequently and thus reducing the planets carbon footprint. Here are a few ways to make every drop count:

   a)       Showering. When in the shower make it a game and challenge yourself to be as quick as possible. I personally do this by choosing a song that I like that day and seeing if I can get my shower over and done with before the song gets to the end!

   b)      Drinking. When your pour yourself a glass of water don’t waste it. Something I used to do before trying to save as much was I’d pour a large glass of water and after having a swig I’d pour the rest down the drain. Now I save what I have left over to have later instead of pouring a new glass. You can also just pour a smaller glass to begin with

   c)       Brushing your teeth. Even just by turning off the tap you can save water whilst brushing your teeth which all adds up in the long run!

   d)      Baths. Try to swap out your bath for a “power” shower instead.

   e)      Gardening. You can save water by gardening by setting up a water butt. Water butts are designed to collect rain water so that you don’t have to use tap water through a hose. This is also especially useful if you live anywhere that gets droughts and you end up with a hosepipe ban.

If every person could do all of these then I’m sure we could reduce the planets water consumption drastically and help to fight climate change on another front.

More to come each day :) Be a force for change!

Thanks for reading,

Heyze