In a remote bar in northern Kenya, a clown wrote "Save water, drink more beer" Anyone who knows the correct calculation and knows the beer production process - from the growing of the various ingredients, the production and transportation of the bottles, through the energy calculation to the disposal of the waste, knew immediately how unreliable the "joke" is and is not expresses reality.
The concept of environmental footprint (the environmental impact / the footprints that are embedded), is known and accepted, similarly it is appropriate and correct to measure the water footprint: how does the use and production of different products affect the global (and local) water economy. The scientific (and industrial) world is starting to use indicators to determine the water-way: measuring the amount of water required to produce and transport a product until it is used.
Calculating the water path gives the consumer information and understanding that will help determine the relationship to the product and the manufacturer... in a world where water is becoming valuable. An index that will allow the consumer to know the cost and amount of water required to produce, transport and serve the product.
Examples of products (consumption) that require large amounts of water to produce are, among others, cotton and beef. At the University of Twente in the Netherlands, a (voluntary) organization was established that calls itself the Water Footprint Network (WFN).
According to the association: 16,000 liters of water will be pumped to produce one kg of beef, 2,900 liters of water will be pumped to produce a cotton shirt.
The USA is the highest in terms of water per capita (as in greenhouse gas emissions), when for each resident 2,9 million liters are pumped every year. After the USA are the Japanese, with 65% of their water consumption in imported products.
Since public awareness is increasing, since more consumers are interested in knowing their water footprint and reducing it, more and more companies and organizations are turning to the "association" and its affiliates to have their water footprint measured.
Since we started in beer, the beer giant SABMiller was one of the first to publish its water policy, at the World Water Week conference held in Stockholm.
The data was collected in South Africa and the Czech Republic by the World Conservation Organization WWF and the "association" (WFN). It turned out that: to produce a liter of beer in DRAP, 155 liters of water were pumped, while in the Czech Republic, only 45 liters of water were pumped to produce the same liter! The differences are due to Dra'p being drier, meaning dependence on irrigation.
98% of the water for the production of beer in Dra'ap was spent on agriculture (growing barley). Such data allow the manufacturer to identify the savings potential when necessary. Publicizing the waterway will give the company tools to reduce the use of water, to reduce the waterway.
The need to identify the waterway is not only for environmental reasons or for the needs of "green advertising", since in most cases companies pay for water rights, or directly for the water, therefore the cost / prices of water are a factor that producers must take into account, and therefore the waterway is a figure that has Consider also from the economic aspect.
Another company that calculated the water footprint is Coca-Cola, the calculation was made for half-liter bottles, the company's spokesperson refuses to reveal the numbers but promises that within two years the footprint will be reduced by 20%,
Determining/calculating the water path involves environmental calculations that change in each case, therefore to avoid confusion a universal index is needed that will be acceptable. The need to establish uniformity in the measurement of the water path and to publicize their path/effect of more and more products is increasing as the problem of lack of water spreads and reaches more areas, determining the water path will be the appropriate tool to prevent wastage, especially in areas that are getting drier,
The "association" is supposed to publish a guide for calculating the water footprint, by individuals, industrial companies, corporations or states, already today there are environmental organizations that demand that the water footprint be part of the published information on food product labels, information that will allow the consumer to influence the water footprint - The personal water.
Many manufacturers express skepticism about the marking of the waterway, claiming that this marking is impractical due to the multitude of products, a multitude that will cause confusion and unnecessary complication for the manufacturers? According to many manufacturers, the water pressure is not an effective measure and is therefore confusing.
While those are opposed, there are already those who propose a label in the shape of a flower, the label will symbolize the environmental impact according to themes where one of the petals will symbolize water, instead of showing how much water will be consumed to produce a kg, the sticker will symbolize correct behavior/water management. Already today there are Finnish and Japanese companies whose products indicate the amount of water required to produce the product. Manufacturers understand that the clearer the "product story" is, the more consumers (responsible) will increase that their environment is important to them.
With us: In the past, I referred to the exhaustion of the authorities in our country in relation to the missing resource, but fortunately independent bodies have learned the lesson of the need to reduce the water-roads, farmers and industrialists alike do to save water, there were "wise men" who hinted that "exporting fruits and vegetables from the desert land is similar to exporting water" , and it is not, since the water footprint of all our agricultural products is dozens of times smaller than similar products in other countries, the invention and development of economical irrigation systems (drip) allows farmers to reduce and minimize the water footprint and meet the standards that will be required by manufacturers worldwide in the future.
By 2025, about 3 billion people will suffer from a lack of water, one of the right ways/options to prevent thirst is by saving and reducing the amount of water.
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to 15 (his lawyer). You have to remember that fresh water has to be pumped (or prayed) and carried
to the consumer and then return to the purification facilities (which do not always exist and the streams in our country are
evidence of this) and from there to sell at a discounted price to agriculture only.
I don't know the numbers, but it seems to me a huge saving in energy and water (including all
the fluidity on the way) if we recycle gray water - that's how we will pour (or pump) and lead at the end of
Say less water to the final consumer, we will save on liquidity - and we will also have to evacuate less water.
In any case, I don't think anyone in this country is really going to look into the issue
This one is serious.
His lawyer:
I didn't hear the same Uri Shani but I guessed in the past that this might be the reason:
https://www.hayadan.org.il/saving-water-2704093/#comment-209203
But most of the days I actually happened to read somewhere (I don't remember where) that the reason is not this but the fear of the morbidity that these actions may cause.
Do you (or anyone else) have official information on the matter?
The reason it is illegal in Israel to recycle gray water in a private way, is (as was interviewed on the issue of Uri Shani One) that the State of Israel takes care of most of the sewage itself and directs the treated water to where it thinks it should be (agriculture), if everyone took care of themselves the state would not have this resource. And she will have to find water for the farmers elsewhere.
By the way, it is much more logical to set up large treatment facilities than for everyone to set up something small for themselves in the yard. It is also much safer to use, monitored and several other things in which it is more…
The fact that the state does not take care of everything, but only 70% (according to foreign sources), is perhaps a bit of a shame, but it is likely that these few are from distant sources (periphery, Palestinian settlements), and even then, it is better to establish small facilities in settlements rather than each one for himself.
Personally, I do not believe that it is possible to make people reduce their water consumption beyond a few percent, and the increase in consumption will continue with the increase in the quality of life, as in the whole world... Therefore, in the end, desalination of water will still be the solution.
Great arguments collected. Similar to articles.
There are no data, no studies, there are disasters.
to convert
Fault finding should begin
in front of a mirror
And only then switch to binoculars
On the websites of companies that sell gray water purification systems it is written that the law on the subject has not yet been approved and therefore it is still illegal.
Since these companies that do not want to sell should not be suspected, I tend to believe their words.
to unite the people (9). I know there was a training conference (which
I missed it) in our town which was run by a company that specialized
in installing such facilities; In "Making Order" (Channel 23)
Karnit Goldwasser supported legislative changes (taxation) to encourage
Installing such facilities in houses - and I understood that there are facilities
Such are authorized and exist in the country.
I may start to deepen my interest in the subject soon.
An article full of nonsense. There is no reference here to technologies that will solve the water problem. A problem that does not exist even today.
There are only financial interests that prevent solving the problems. The public is following the lies of the politicians and a group of scientists and professionals who give them scientific backing so as not to invest in solving the water problems, this of course "saves" them a lot of money, money that they use for waste and corruption and concern for the people who support them.
You, and your articles, are actually supporting those politicians (I hope they are just stupid) and their refusal to deal with the water problem. You claim that the solution is to go back to the Middle Ages where the average citizen used a few percent of the resources compared to today. Of course this absurd idea is wrapped in demagogic wraps designed to dazzle the public.
The method works very well, the fact is that we avoid solving the problems and throw the disasters that are produced here on the public.
Stupidity combined with evil is the most dangerous.
to someone else entirely…
As far as I know, household gray water recycling systems are not approved by the Ministry of Health, despite newspaper reports here and there about their installation in community settlements.
Has anything changed in this regard? Apart from the price, of course, which exists on a wide scale depending on the degree of cleanliness, the way the system operates, etc.
Did it also say what the water quality of whiskey and vodka is?
If they wanted to save water, it would be possible to ease the taxation of systems
Household water recycling (use of gray water - sink water
and shower) to flush a toilet. There is no tax revenue loss here
to the state because these systems are currently so expensive
Therefore they are not bought - if there are no buyers, no taxes are paid
You also have no tax loss, so this move is also cheaper
from desalination and is not polluting like it (ie: investment of electricity for desalination).
But maybe the Jewish head is not as smart as it seems.
No father, no.
The segment 'The finger was wrong' is associated in spirit with the wonderful singer with the hoarse voice in the world, Tom Waits, who sang on
"The piano has been drinking".
Of course - the song of the drunkard...
And to this Gadi Yagil said - wine came in, soda came out (the waiter's systems).
Of course: "So that no terrors come upon us."
The finger was wrong...
The problem is not water at all: there is endless water!
The problem is: money, money and money!!!
When the governments will care and spend less on arming and the like, there will be liquid money for fresh water - drinking, bathing and even a jacuzzi...
And in addition, it must be assumed that the price of water production will decrease and the technology will be perfected - so that threats will follow us.
And this is similar to the "warming" of the earth - and the fierce snowstorms all over the world this winter that just started (and regardless of the Gulf Stream and other green speculations).
After the words were written, I saw that:
In response to the words written by the journalist Zur Shizaf,
Dr. Doron Mekel - director of the Kinneret field at the Water Authority writes:
"Home consumption in 2007 was about 800 million mXNUMX",
"In Israel, 70% of wastewater is recycled and used for agriculture"
According to various online sources:
About 1,5 billion cubic meters are used for agriculture, about 700 million cubic meters are used for industry,
In Judea and Samaria, about 200 million cubic meters are consumed,
When you add the data (without agriculture) you get a consumption of about 1,7 billion cubic meters per year,
Of which (according to Mekel) 70% are returned for use.
That is: we pour into the sea, the Kinneret, the Jordan Channel, etc. about 500 million
Mk Mi-Sewage per year!
Recycling this amount and decommissioning it for use, as well as draining and collecting the rainwater that causes flooding in the big cities every year, two actions that will allow the flow of water in southern Jordan and its revitalization,
Water that will flow from the Jordan to the Dead Sea... more than half the amount of water that is missing from the Dead Sea per year!
Do you mean water in general or water whose purpose is drinking water?
I am a passionate supporter of water conservation and reuse.
But it should be noted that water is not always wasted if it can be reused.
For example, irrigation in a sewer.
If I water my fruits and vegetables with stored rainwater and purified tap water, am I still wasting water?