Tips to save clean water for your family

(Baonghean.vn) - Clean water is a precious resource but not endless. Lack of clean water threatens the lives of humans and other creatures on Earth. Therefore, protecting and saving clean water for the family is protecting the precious resource that brings life to our green planet.

Water is a priceless resource but not endless. Photo: Internet.

Signs of contaminated water

- Water that has a fishy smell and a yellow-green color after being exposed to air is contaminated with iron or alum: You can use dry tea or banana sap and drop it into the water. If it turns purple, the water is contaminated.

- Water with a strong, unpleasant smell like disinfectant is water contaminated with chlorine. Almost all tap water sources use chlorine and ozone disinfection at the source, the strong chlorine smell in the morning when users get water is due to the residual chlorine and ozone in the water.

- Water that has a pungent, nauseating smell, especially water contaminated with phenol and chlorine. Water that has a musty, rotten egg smell is water contaminated with H2S (rare)

- Water with black scum on the surface, food is difficult to cook, causing plaque to stick to utensils is hard water (specifically water sources containing calcium and magnesium salts), water contaminated with manganese.

Harmful effects of using contaminated water

Using “dirty” water sources brings about terrible consequences. Photo: Internet.

- Digestive diseases: Diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever...

- Parasitic diseases: Worms, tapeworms, lice, etc.

- Diseases caused by insects related to water: Malaria, dengue fever, encephalitis...

- Diseases caused by viruses: Polio, hepatitis A ...

- Skin diseases: Impetigo, boils, ringworm, pityriasis versicolor, trachoma, gynecology, rash fever...

- Diseases caused by toxic substances in water.

How to treat to have clean water for family

Clean the water tank regularly to have clean water for your family. Photo: Internet

For rainwater: Clean the roof at the beginning of the rainy season. Do not collect rainwater from the first rains of the season. Rainwater tanks must be clean and sealed.

For tap water: Clean the water tank regularly. Leave the water in the tank for a while to evaporate any excess disinfectant in the water.

For river and lake water: Must be filtered before use.

For water from dug wells and drilled wells: Use equipment such as filter tanks, rain racks, etc. to remove iron, manganese, etc. before use. The well must be built far away from toilets and livestock barns (10-15m).

How to protect clean water sources?

- Do not dump garbage, animal carcasses, human and livestock waste into water sources.

- Do not build toilets on rivers, canals, ditches, ponds, lakes...

- Do not break water pipes.

- Build a toilet with a septic tank according to technical standards (so that feces do not seep into the ground).

Join hands to protect clean water resources. Photo: Internet

- Use pesticides and fertilizers correctly and in the right dosage.

- Treat livestock wastewater before discharging into water sources.

- Keep clean around water sources.

- Save water.

Tips to save clean water for your family

+ Use water-saving sanitary equipment

To prevent water waste, a fairly effective method is to replace old, water-wasting sanitary equipment with new, water-saving equipment. If we build a new house, choosing to buy water-saving equipment for our lovely home is a wise decision.

+ Make the most of water when possible

When washing dishes, vegetables or scrubbing objects, you should prepare a basin of clean water. The final rinse water can be reused for other purposes such as scrubbing or mopping the floor. Dirty water (without soap) can be used to water plants, soil to reduce dust, etc.

Only rinse directly under the tap when absolutely necessary and adjust the tap to just enough for use.

Fix leaks to prevent water loss. Photo: Internet

+ Check and fix leaks

This is a way to avoid water loss that we need to do urgently because water pipes can leak and cause serious water loss.

To test, read the water meter before and after two hours of no water use. If the meter does not show the same amount of water, then there is a leak in the water supply system.

Next, check for toilet leaks by putting a little food coloring in the toilet tank. If the color appears in the toilet bowl within 30 minutes of not flushing, it means the toilet is leaking.

When a leak is detected, we need to call a technician or repair it ourselves immediately.

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