Accommodations - Best Practice Water Conservation
Accommodations - Best Practice Water Conservation
Water Conservation: Spain is rationing water amid its worst drought for 60 years, draining public swimming pools. Portugal's crops are so badly hit it has applied for EU food assistance. Severe droughts are hitting countries from Cuba to Cambodia to Australia. It is too early to tell whether the dwindling rainfall reflects genuine climate change or just a seasonal blip, but it certainly fits the global warming pattern. A shortage of clean water is one of the most serious challenges facing the world this millennium, according to the United Nations. Here’s what you can do to help:
Water Conservation: Spain is rationing water amid its worst drought for 60 years, draining public swimming pools. Portugal's crops are so badly hit it has applied for EU food assistance. Severe droughts are hitting countries from Cuba to Cambodia to Australia. It is too early to tell whether the dwindling rainfall reflects genuine climate change or just a seasonal blip, but it certainly fits the global warming pattern. A shortage of clean water is one of the most serious challenges facing the world this millennium, according to the United Nations. Here’s what you can do to help:
- Fit toilets with water savers – or put a brick in the cistern.
Dominica ecolodge holiday We use low flow taps, rocks in the toilets for displacement, and grey water passes through a trap in the plug hole, a grease trap outside and then a soakaway. - Fit low flush toilets and use low flow taps and low pressure showers.
Dordogne self catering accommodation Visitors to the cabin are given written info on saving water and using the shower which only holds 5 litres at a time. - Filter grey water and reuse for water plants.
Yucatan ecolodge accommodation, Mexico The gray waters go to a biological filter that has a stone (antracita) and bacteria - this filtered water is then used to water our garden. - Use salt water for toilet flushing.
Venezuela beach ecolodge accommodation All our freshwater supply comes from rainwater collection and our toilets flush with saltwater. - Fit a composting loo.
- Use rainwater for showers.
Honeymoon in the Seychelles There are 350,000 litres storage capacity for rainwater which is purified through UV filters and sediment filters. - Fit water butts / harvest rainwater.
Grenada hotel luxury accommodation The collection of rain water, from our roof, is filtered via German technology into a 40,000 gallon holding tank. - Ask guests to reuse towels and sheets more than once.
- Filter greasy water – reed beds, inverse and reverse osmosis, ultraviolet.
- W.E.T system for sewage.