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Home-made water conservation

home-made innovation resulted in the usage of
water by up to six tankers quantity each year for one
household and 40 full tankers worth in the locality
as the residents joined Tech Manager Prabhat
A ijayan in the initiative towards conservation and
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cost reduction.
Hard water in taps is an issue in the outlying suburbs
of Bengaluru with housing complexes depending on
borewells for general use and tankers for supply of
drinking water. Prabhat Vijayan installed an RO purifier
and observed that the unit was discarding four litres of
water for each one of the drinking water available for
personal use.
Reverse osmosis or RO is a water purification system
using a semi-permeable membrane to remove impurities
in the water passing through, especially chlorine, dirt,
salts and other contaminants like microscopic organisms.
Prabhat used a drum to store the water discarded by the
RO unit. It was then utilized for mopping floors, washing
cars, washroom use, watering plants and at times even for
the first wash of utensils.

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