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What should be an Approach to Water Practices?
Science and technology is meeting the challenge of finding ways to reduce our wasteful water practices. 'The challenge is how to provide an appropriate balance between water supply and demand to accommodate population growth, climate change and environmental needs while maintaining people’s quality of life.
Social Attitudinal Evaluation model: If we can
clean our clothes in a washing machine that uses half the water, this has to be a smarter approach- Social Attitudinal Evaluation model. Similarly, we can keep our gardens healthy but use far less water through efficient irrigation methods, and substitute the use of drinking water with ‘fit for purpose’ water captured from our roofs or from recycled wastewater.
Economic model: It is developed to help understand the
‘true’ value of water, which includes the cost of providing
infrastructure and maintaining it, as well as environmental and community
impacts.
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