Day by day it is getting more difficult to get fresh water. There are so many countries struggeling to get it. The rich country like Singapore, they have desalinisation plant to extract fresh water from sea water.

But some poor countries are still has no clue on how to solve this problem. They don’t have enough capital to be invested to provide their people fresh water. I saw how people in Zimbabwe took dirty waters from the contaminated banks for their daily consumptions. So many of their people died because of Cholera that were spread through dirty water.

So,go back to our reality here. Eventhough we live in developed or developing countries which has plenty God given water resources, we should think on how to conserve this precious natural element. We can start by conserving our wastewater.

There are two type of wastewater that can be conserved. One is wastewater from your washing machine. The other one is waste water from your kitchen zink.

Conserving wastewater from your washing machine requires a little bit capital to invest. You need to build a small tank on your yards and pipeline system to connect to your washing machine. So,everytime the machine waste the water, it would go directly to that tank. From that thank you can water your garden.

There is one thing to remember, in order to use your waste water to water your garden, you must use bio gradable type of detergent for your washing. This type of detergent does not contain complex phosphate and sodium tripolyphosphate that can kill plants and fishes in the stream. It uses enzymes like protease and amylase instead.

Next is to use your wastewater from your kitchen zink. Most people when they wash their vegies or fruits, they just let the water flowing down from the tab into the zink exit. Now you can put a plastic basin in the zink to collect that water everytime you wash your vegies or fruits. Then when you finish you can just use that water for your garden.

The effort to conserve the wastewater may give you a bit hustle for the first time. Once it becomes a habit, it won’t make you feel that way.