In my Grand mother days, there were zero
release of water from the house to road.Water was optimally used, so as to save
the resources. Also, there were no modern gadgets like taps, showers, etc.,
which wastes the water.
In olden days, water used to be drawn
from the open well. Hence, people were habituated to use water optimally. There
were not much use of soaps are shampoos, which consumes more water . mostly
shikai powder or kunkudukaya or vattiveru were used to take head bath.green
gram powder was used to clean up the skin, which consumes a little water.It is
a kind of "Reduction" methods of consumption of resources. Also , ash
was used to clean the utensils. It again allowed to consume a little water.
The used water was Channelised to pass through the trees one
after other. This allows the growth of trees and plants also decreases the work
of watering.The water is also
"Reused".
Despite of channelled the water to trees
and plants, there used to be excess water.Most of the people including my
maternal Grand parents dug up a pit to percolation of water, so as to conserve
the water.It is a kind of a "Recycling" of water.
The pit is made up of pebbles
(metal/rocks) of different size in ascending order from the top.over that sand
is aranged.the coal pieces are also arranged over the sand.This mechanism
allows seepage of leftover watein the pit.The coal also grab the foul smell
emanating out of the decomposed materials reaching to the pit.The pit used to
be cleaned and cleared once or twice in a year.This the one of the reasons why
the mosquitoes breeding was less in olden days.
In contrary to the old and traditional
habits, presently every single drop of water is reaching the drains and
reaching to the water bodies without treatment, causing many health and
pollution problems.
Hence, the age old practice of Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle and conservation of water is worth emulation in the present
scenario of need to conserve the resources for the next generations.
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