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Water Conservation
This information was taken from http://www.commonfloor.com
The need and importance of conservation of water, energy and natural resource are known to people all over the world. An apartment complex residents can play vital role in saving water not only for their society but also for the city as a whole. Water conservation helps in bringing down the water bill saving money and environment. If we take out more water than the natural system will allow then this leads to a lowering of the water table and possible dramatic effects upon water quality, future water supplies and agriculture.
Adopting Green Lifestyle for Water Conservation in Apartment
Green lifestyle brings down the carbon footprints and save earth. Today Green is a buzz word associated with environment or earth. In an apartment complex demand for water is high and it increases during the summer. Water conservation is important and vital for better future. Water consumption in apartment complex can be reduced by using following steps or methods.
· Rainwater harvesting: Rooftop rainwater harvesting is quite popular since it is quite easy to collect rainwater falling on rooftops and terrace. Apartment owners can form an association or group for implementing rainwater harvesting system in the apartment.
· Group of water-conscious people: Encourage your family to keep looking for new ways to conserve water in and around your home. Form a group of water-conscious people and encourage your friends and neighbors to be part of this group. Promote water conservation need and methods in community newsletters and on bulletin boards.
· Repair or replace leaky faucets: Leaky faucets in your apartment are one of main contributor to the wastage of water. A faucet that drips once every second could be wasting over 2,500 gallons of water a year. Replace or repair leaky faucets as early as possible. Encourage your neighbors also for the same.
· Close taps when shaving or brushing: Do not leave the tap running while you are brushing your teeth or soaping your face. Turning the water off while you lather the soap can save as many as 5 gallons of water each time you wash. Use one glass of water for brushing teeth instead of running the faucet.
· Check your toilets for leaks: Put a little food coloring in your toilet tank. If, without flushing, the color begins to appear in the bowl within 30 minutes, you have a leak that should be repaired immediately. Don’t use the toilet to flush a cigarette butt, facial tissue or other small bit of trash. Every time you flush a cigarette butt or wastebasket, five to seven gallons of water is wasted.
· Dishwasher to conserve water: If you have a dishwasher, then stop washing your dishes by hand. If you have to wash your dishes by hand, fill one side of the sink with hot soapy water and fill the other side with rinse water. Don’t leave the faucet running.
· Use bottle inside flush tank: In order to reduce the usage of water during toilet flushes, put a 1-liter bottle filled with water inside each of the flush tanks. This displaces 1-litre volume of water in the tank and thus, saves 1 litre with every full flush.
· Dual piping: Residents can use one pipe for drinking, bathing and utensil cleaning where other pipe will bring in rain water and treated water for toilet, lawns, washing cars, floors etc. This will enable to save up to 40% of potable water.
· Stop dispose of food and Polluting water: Do not dispose food waste in kitchen sink as it requires lots of water for disposal and also increases unnecessary load on septic tank. Throwing chemicals in the trash or down the drain means they might end up coming back in your water supply and come back to haunt you. Daily ensure that you or your family consumes less water comparing to previous days.
· Washing dishes by hand: If you have a double-basin, fill one with soapy water and one with rinse water. If you have a single-basin sink, gather washed dishes in a dish rack and rinse them with a spray device or a pan full of hot water.
For cleaning toilet and flushing, use recycled water. It is unwise to use drinking water or potable water for flushing down water in toilet, washing cars, floors etc. Each day ensure that water used to comparatively lower than previous day. This helps to save water and your money. All the water used in the home, apart from flush water, can be re-used to some degree. Upgrade your toilet with new water efficient models.
The need and importance of conservation of water, energy and natural resource are known to people all over the world. An apartment complex residents can play vital role in saving water not only for their society but also for the city as a whole. Water conservation helps in bringing down the water bill saving money and environment. If we take out more water than the natural system will allow then this leads to a lowering of the water table and possible dramatic effects upon water quality, future water supplies and agriculture.
Adopting Green Lifestyle for Water Conservation in Apartment
Green lifestyle brings down the carbon footprints and save earth. Today Green is a buzz word associated with environment or earth. In an apartment complex demand for water is high and it increases during the summer. Water conservation is important and vital for better future. Water consumption in apartment complex can be reduced by using following steps or methods.
· Rainwater harvesting: Rooftop rainwater harvesting is quite popular since it is quite easy to collect rainwater falling on rooftops and terrace. Apartment owners can form an association or group for implementing rainwater harvesting system in the apartment.
· Group of water-conscious people: Encourage your family to keep looking for new ways to conserve water in and around your home. Form a group of water-conscious people and encourage your friends and neighbors to be part of this group. Promote water conservation need and methods in community newsletters and on bulletin boards.
· Repair or replace leaky faucets: Leaky faucets in your apartment are one of main contributor to the wastage of water. A faucet that drips once every second could be wasting over 2,500 gallons of water a year. Replace or repair leaky faucets as early as possible. Encourage your neighbors also for the same.
· Close taps when shaving or brushing: Do not leave the tap running while you are brushing your teeth or soaping your face. Turning the water off while you lather the soap can save as many as 5 gallons of water each time you wash. Use one glass of water for brushing teeth instead of running the faucet.
· Check your toilets for leaks: Put a little food coloring in your toilet tank. If, without flushing, the color begins to appear in the bowl within 30 minutes, you have a leak that should be repaired immediately. Don’t use the toilet to flush a cigarette butt, facial tissue or other small bit of trash. Every time you flush a cigarette butt or wastebasket, five to seven gallons of water is wasted.
· Dishwasher to conserve water: If you have a dishwasher, then stop washing your dishes by hand. If you have to wash your dishes by hand, fill one side of the sink with hot soapy water and fill the other side with rinse water. Don’t leave the faucet running.
· Use bottle inside flush tank: In order to reduce the usage of water during toilet flushes, put a 1-liter bottle filled with water inside each of the flush tanks. This displaces 1-litre volume of water in the tank and thus, saves 1 litre with every full flush.
· Dual piping: Residents can use one pipe for drinking, bathing and utensil cleaning where other pipe will bring in rain water and treated water for toilet, lawns, washing cars, floors etc. This will enable to save up to 40% of potable water.
· Stop dispose of food and Polluting water: Do not dispose food waste in kitchen sink as it requires lots of water for disposal and also increases unnecessary load on septic tank. Throwing chemicals in the trash or down the drain means they might end up coming back in your water supply and come back to haunt you. Daily ensure that you or your family consumes less water comparing to previous days.
· Washing dishes by hand: If you have a double-basin, fill one with soapy water and one with rinse water. If you have a single-basin sink, gather washed dishes in a dish rack and rinse them with a spray device or a pan full of hot water.
For cleaning toilet and flushing, use recycled water. It is unwise to use drinking water or potable water for flushing down water in toilet, washing cars, floors etc. Each day ensure that water used to comparatively lower than previous day. This helps to save water and your money. All the water used in the home, apart from flush water, can be re-used to some degree. Upgrade your toilet with new water efficient models.
Energy behind powerhouse lines
Article from Deccan Herald Newspaper Aug 21, Bangalore:
Hybrid boost
Energy behind powerhouse lines
Subhash Chandra N S, Aug 21, Bangalore:
This is a powerhouse, literally, and could even be the City’s envy. At a time when the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) is struggling to provide uninterrupted electricity to consumers, a six-bedroom house at Visvesvaraya Layout here is running on hybrid power, round-the-clock.
When 24-hour power supply to Bangaloreans, an election promise of the BJP, remains a distant dream for the City’s inhabitants, H K Gowdaiah, who is vice-president of the Visvesvaraya Layout Residents’ and Site Owners’ Association, has worked out an ingenuous alternative to end the unending power woes. His house doesn’t suffer power cuts, thanks to the hybrid power of wind and solar energy.
A solar panel dealer, Gowdaiah has been using alternative renewable energy to power his six-bedroom house for the past five years. The wind fans atop the terrace generate up to 1.5 kw of energy, while the solar photovoltaic cells adjoining the wind fan generate 600 watts. “The power generated is sufficient to electrify my entire house with six bedrooms, a hall, a living room, passages and even store rooms. We use this power for heating applications, running the refrigerator and other home appliances and is sufficient to sustain a 20-member joint family like ours,” said Gowdaiah.
Gowdaiah’s initiative took wings five years ago, when the new layout was formed. The area was plagued by electric overhead cable and transformer oil thefts which led to artificial power cuts. The Bangalore Development Authority appointed security personnel who could not prevent power pilferage since they were hardly seen in the vicinity. “We could not even lodge a complaint as the system was maintained by BDA and was not handed over to Bescom,” he said.
Installed at a cost of Rs 5.25 lakh, the power generated by this hybrid mechanism is stored in four lead acid batteries of 120 watt amperes to meet the peak load power. The wind fans, which run at a speed of eight kms per hour, can power the house for a period of nine months, while the solar power is sufficient for heating applications and works wonders during summer. Equipped with CFL and other energy saving techniques, this house not only saves power but also saves Rs 600 in the form of Bescom bills.
DH News Service
The Bescom connection is used as an alternative and backup power.
DH News Service
Hybrid boost
Energy behind powerhouse lines
Subhash Chandra N S, Aug 21, Bangalore:
This is a powerhouse, literally, and could even be the City’s envy. At a time when the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) is struggling to provide uninterrupted electricity to consumers, a six-bedroom house at Visvesvaraya Layout here is running on hybrid power, round-the-clock.
When 24-hour power supply to Bangaloreans, an election promise of the BJP, remains a distant dream for the City’s inhabitants, H K Gowdaiah, who is vice-president of the Visvesvaraya Layout Residents’ and Site Owners’ Association, has worked out an ingenuous alternative to end the unending power woes. His house doesn’t suffer power cuts, thanks to the hybrid power of wind and solar energy.
A solar panel dealer, Gowdaiah has been using alternative renewable energy to power his six-bedroom house for the past five years. The wind fans atop the terrace generate up to 1.5 kw of energy, while the solar photovoltaic cells adjoining the wind fan generate 600 watts. “The power generated is sufficient to electrify my entire house with six bedrooms, a hall, a living room, passages and even store rooms. We use this power for heating applications, running the refrigerator and other home appliances and is sufficient to sustain a 20-member joint family like ours,” said Gowdaiah.
Gowdaiah’s initiative took wings five years ago, when the new layout was formed. The area was plagued by electric overhead cable and transformer oil thefts which led to artificial power cuts. The Bangalore Development Authority appointed security personnel who could not prevent power pilferage since they were hardly seen in the vicinity. “We could not even lodge a complaint as the system was maintained by BDA and was not handed over to Bescom,” he said.
Installed at a cost of Rs 5.25 lakh, the power generated by this hybrid mechanism is stored in four lead acid batteries of 120 watt amperes to meet the peak load power. The wind fans, which run at a speed of eight kms per hour, can power the house for a period of nine months, while the solar power is sufficient for heating applications and works wonders during summer. Equipped with CFL and other energy saving techniques, this house not only saves power but also saves Rs 600 in the form of Bescom bills.
DH News Service
The Bescom connection is used as an alternative and backup power.
DH News Service
All we have to do is learn to cultivate the sun.
The following lines are taken from the film " HOME"
Everything on Earth is Linked
And the EArth is linked to the Sun,its original energy source.
Can Humans not imitate plants and Capture its Energy ?
In One hour,the sun gives the Earth the same amont of energy as that consumed by all humanity in one year.
All we have to do is stop drilling the Earth and Start looking at the Sky , All we have to do is learn to cultivate the sun.
Everything on Earth is Linked
And the EArth is linked to the Sun,its original energy source.
Can Humans not imitate plants and Capture its Energy ?
In One hour,the sun gives the Earth the same amont of energy as that consumed by all humanity in one year.
All we have to do is stop drilling the Earth and Start looking at the Sky , All we have to do is learn to cultivate the sun.
Movie HOME
Watch this Movie when you find time.. ita a MUST watch movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
Runtime : 1 Hour 33 mins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
Runtime : 1 Hour 33 mins.
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