When you drink water, remember the fountain
(Chinese proverb)

Water is the Basic compound of living beings, and it is essential for the development of physical and biological processes in our planet. We, ourselves, are made in a 75%of water, and we need to renovate it with a rhythm of at least, 1litre and a half per day.

Fresh water is a really limited resource. Its good use is conditioned actually by its contamination and the situation of wasting it. These bad habits and the growth of the population over the last century has been the responsible of an increase in the use of water.

An explicative data of this pressure is that while the population since 1900 has been multiplied by four, the water extraction has been multiplied by ten. Actually the shortage of water and the deficient infrastructure cause more than 5 millions of deaths per year because of the consumption of polluted water, while daily big quantities are wasted and lost without control.
Controlling this is not a big effort and doesn’t affect our life quality and furthermore represent a big save of Money.
Saving water in all the activities we do mean unify our efforts in order to preserve one resource necessary for the whole live and also for our economic development. Our effort must be double: in one hand we should decrease the consumption of water, and in the other hand, reduce our contaminant charge.
Knowing the consumption of water in the houses is a necessary step in order to know where we spend more, so that we could save without renounce to our actual well-being.

Approximate consumption of water per person and day

Washing clothes:60-100 liters
Cleaning the house: 15-40 liters
Doing the dishes with machine: 18-50 liters
Doing the dishes: 100 liters
Cooking: 6-8 liters
Having a shower: 35-70 liters
Having a bath: 200 liters
Brushing the teeth: 30 liters
Brushing the teeth (Turning off the tap): 11,5 liters
Washing the hands: 1,5 liters
Shaving 40-75 liters
Shaving (Turning off the tap) 3 liters
Washing the car with a hose: 500 liters
Empty the cistern: 10-15 liters
Empty medium cistern: 6 liters
Watering a small garden: 75 liters
Watering home plants: 15 liters
Drinking: 1,5 liters