It's happening every day
We use more water, we store more water and we waste more water.
This will always be a natural cycle for us because we were designed to produce offspring, so therefore the populations will always be increasing. As our numbers increase so will our useage, so we must be carefull with our most precious resource.
Industry will always need water to operate, and we need plenty of it for agriculture, so the need for water will always grow.
Our reservoirs are at record lows - naturally this will be more of an issue in some areas than others, but wherever you live you will know that our water supplies are decreasing all the time. Some reservoirs are so low that councils are having to find other sources of water supply, and this is happening right now!!
We are seeing longer droughts than ever before which is imapacting the farming communities, we are seeing livestock dieing due to lack of food and water and crops not germinating due to lack of rain. Many farm dams and storage tanks are dry, causing them to have to purchase water to survive.
Is this all negative? Yes, but it is reality, and we need to accept it and plan for the future.
Will it get any better?
To answer that lets look at how we recieve our fresh water supplies, and how the whole water cycle opperates.
We start with any water body, where evaporation occurs, and this could be a lake, dam, river or the ocean, infact, evaporation will occur wherever there is moisture. The water is heated and evaporation occurs, drawing water vapour into the atmospere where it cools forming clouds.
Air currents cause the water vapour to collect and fall, as rain, snow and more, filling dams, rivers and falling into the ocean. Some water will be directly evaporated again, some will be absorbed into the subsoil and some will be caught to use as a water supply for our drinking water. Please click here for a more detailed explenation on the water cycle.
What does this mean? Yes we will continue to recieve rainfall from this source, but it is only enough to supply what it used to supply, and we have already passed that stage. The water cycle is not capable of supplying more than it's natural cycle already supplies. This means that we have to find alternate supplies of water, find ways of using our waste water, investigate how to convert seawater and any other source we can find.
Negative or positive?
You can view all this information as a negative, or you can view it as information that shows you the need to find ways to save water and cut down on our useage.
Even if you are in an area that has plenty of water, you may be using the water that would normally be evaporated and converted to rain for other dry areas. You see, what we do always effects others somehow, even if you can't see it. We can all do our part to help save our most precious resource. Whether it be shorter showers, having a low maintenance garden, putting in your own water tank or other ways of cutting your water useage down.
Our water, our future
Our government has a mandate to ensure the supply of water to it's citizens, but if we do not do our part to save water and be waterwise, it won't matter what the government, or the local councils do, we will always be using and wasting water. So we all have a part to play.
Water conservation with your new home
This website is about designing your new home and yard, and all it's contents, so we thought we would include some ideas on how to conserve water in your garden, as well as in your house.
The following link is to a page with information on water restrictions, what they mean for the general public, and how to incorporate water saving measures to fit these evergrowing restrictions.
Water restrictions and how to comply.
This information is provided for better understanding of our water supply issues. We are by no means an authority on this subject and will not be held liable for information used from this site. Please review our terms and conditions.
