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Projects > Water is life and not a merchandise - 22nd of March -
World Days of water |
22nd of March World Days
of water
There is no life without
water
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Besides air, water is one of the most important
resources, and without it life on the Earth wouldnt be
possible. A human can not be not be without water not
even 7 days, while human can live without food even 26
days, if drinking water constantly. 40% of the worlds
population does not have good-quality water for
consuming, where 26% of the worlds population does not
have enough water. The worlds need for the water is
doubling every 20 years, where the climate changes are
one of the biggest causes for situation like that.
Because of using the non-adequate water (which does not
fulfil the sanitary requirements) every year 3 million
people dies.
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We have
to make sure that our children an future generations
have enough of drinkable, good-quality water. Each
of us can, and should make minimal effort and give
contribution in order to save the natural resources
as water is.
AND YOU ARE ONE OF
THEM !!!
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Analyses of the water supplying in Serbia shows that 60%
drinking water does not fulfil the sanitary norms and
that drinking water is mostly being used as technical
water. 21. Century will be the
century of fighting for domination for water resources.
Whoever mnages over the water, he/she will create new
world order.
Our country is too small
to enter worlds imperialistic course but it can do a
lot for the water that we already have ( wise use, and
take proper care of it) .International community When
realized the problems, International Community has taken
the initiative for saving the water resources and wise
water usage .
The European parliament,
in the General Directive of Water, (adopted 23.10.2000.)
made a point that:
WATER IS NOT COMMERCIAL PRODUCT
AS
ANY OTHER, BUT IT IS THE NATURAL HERITAGE
THAT HAS TO BE
PROTECTED,
AND TAKEN CARE OFF.
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Water, especially the
drinkable one, can not be no-ones private property, because
water is the public good. Public society has an obligation
to organise two main activities in order to save and keep
the clean water, and in the same time help to save peoples
health.
Those activities are:
- PREPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ENOUGH CLEAN DRINKABLE WATER.
- PRE-CLEANING AND CLEANING OF THE WATER AND BRINGING IT BACK TO THE WATER
COURSE OF WASTE WATERS.
Water, from the usage view,
can be divided in 3 groups:
- Drinkable water of
unconditional quality (approximate need 20%). It is used for
drinking, cooking, washing, and personal hygiene,
- Drinkable water of questionable quality (approximate need
45%). It is used for washing cars, watering plants, etc
- Water without enough quality for drinking (approximate need 35%). It is
used for WC-washing, street washing, channel washing, fire stations, etc
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The water that economic
subjects use isnt appropriate for their qualitative
requirements. They use the unconditional water because
there isnt a possibility to deliver the appropriate
water. Wasted water we can divide up in three
categories:
1. Communal wasted water.
2. Industrial
wasted water.
3. Atmospherically wasted water.
The social community has
taken over the responsibility of treating the communal
waters, but the treatment of the industrial wasted
waters is a concern of each of the producers in
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Economic subjects
In producing process you are
wasting huge amount of drinkable water. Your children will
very soon experience the water restrictions. This is why we
ask you to actively participate in the action of preserving
the water and also filtrating the wasted water. Your
participation in this action has the economic and ethical
dimension.
Economic aspects of being
involved in the action of preserving the water.
-Reducing the producing
expenses as well as the price of the product.
-Competition
of the products and the possibility of exporting the water.
The water price is pretty
high with the raising tendency. Where the technical
possibilities permit, its necessary to use the water from
the own sources (draw-wellsetc.). Then the water unite
price will be lesser.
ATTENTION: Large amounts of
underground water, that in Nis is not very deep, offer the
possibility of providing the technical water with small
investments. The treatment of wasted waters by the social
community is stimulated through freeing and reducing the
taxes for soil-pipes usage. The social community has
foresight strict sanctions against the water contaminators.
Exporting the water to the world market is conditioned by
implanting the appropriate standards in the aspect of
protecting the living environment. Our country has the
obligation to establish appropriate regulations and
standards in this area. There are passive and active
measures for reducing water pollution. Passive measures
require a lot of action and appropriate behaviour in the
process of production for which there is a bigger need for
economic justification. The appropriate relations towards
the material and the producing instruments, improving the
technological production processes and hiring well-educated
staff, strictly monitoring the production expenses etc. give
a great contribution to preserve the water. Implementing and
increasing the passive measures in the production, the need
for implementing and using expensive active measures, is
reduced. Active measures require
implementing the system for filtering the wasted waters.
By
its technology these systems are divided to:
- Mechanical treatments,
- Chemical treatments,
- Biological treatments.
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POPULATION
Population as well has a responsibility to contribute
for keeping water clean. Activities for water protection
are mostly organized by Public Communal
Service, whose
assignment is collecting, re-cleaning polluted water.
But the most important is populations contribution and
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For what do we use water?
- Irrigation,
- watering plants,
- watering green areas,
- washing (in general),
- car washing,
- personal hygiene,
- cooking.
How can we save up water?
The analyses of water usage in Ni:
- 18 m3/st.per month total usage of water
- 5.0 m3/st.per
month the real necessity for water
- 5.0 m3/st.per month
losses on home installation
- 8.0 m3/st.per month
irrational usage of water
For some necessities (where the 100 percent water quality
is not required) we can use the alternative options (water
from well, etc)
Agricultural producers are already using this water
supplying alternative. In the cities, citizens can use this
option of water supplying for necessities such as: car
washing, etc).
Positive examples of wise water usage are
many individual households, as well as many unions of
citizens, who invested in wells, from which water is being
used.
For personal necessities and cooking is not possible to
provide good alternative for water supplying, but the wise
usage is possible.
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When it comes to households, the biggest water user is
bathroom water tank. Bathroom water tank uses around 20-25%
of total water.
It is determined that bathroom water tanks are
non-functional, and not recommended because they spare the
big amounts of water.
It is estimated that the major cause
of water losses is caused by bathroom water tanks (around 70
percent %).
With a little effort we can save-up this
precious liquid, and join the action of saving up the water. |
In order for this action to succeed, it is necessary to
control and check-up of bathroom water tanks and water taps,
on monthly bases. That can be provided by house hold unions,
and water saving up will succeed.
You can contribute in action save
up the water when...
- When you wash your teeth; switch off the water tap
saving 20 litres per day!
- When washing your dishes, wash
them from the water in sink instead water from running
water- saving 130 litres of water per day!
- Especially try
to use wisely hot water, because with that you save the
water and electricity as well.
- Take a shower instead of
taking a bath. For the full bathtub you will need 150 litres
of water and for shower just 30 60 litres!
- Fix your
bathroom water tanks, and prevent water leaking.
- Wash your
cars reasonable number of times.
- Use your washing and dish
machines only when they are completely full.
- Use less
detergent when washing.
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The sensors, which provide controlled using of water,
are already being used world-wide. This sensor can help
you save up even 80% (for example, in schools, it can be
saved up around 47000 litres when using sensors in
bathrooms.
It is necessary to increase self-conscience and be
more aware that healthy and clean water supplies are
decreasing every day.
It is necessary to keep our water
clean, to use it wisely in order to have it enough for
us and up-coming generations.
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THE SOCIAL COMMUNITY
The Social Community doesnt put enough effort when it
comes to saving up the water.
In the water supplying politics the community (Public
Communal Service) has to accomplish three main goals:
- to have extra water supplies, and to cover needs of
water for period from 10-15 years,
- to increase easy
growing of water capacity within next 25-30 years,
- to
find and secure the water resources, so the needs for next
50 years are covered.
Since we have water supplying problems constantly, it is
clear that none of these goals are not achieved yet.
Social community has to make a special effort in order to
solve problems of water resources, as well as:
- To adopt stimulative and repressive legal regulations in order to achieve
rational water usage.
- To organize educational programs in order to form self-conscience for
rational usage water
LET THE FUTURE GENERATIONS MENTION US FOR GOOD DEEDS !!!
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