How to Conserve Water | National Geographic

[@NatGeo]

The U.S could face a water shortage in a little over 50 years. How are you practicing water conservation?

[@MadelynJatico]

I feel bad for the sea we need to conserve it!

[@neetachaturvedi8273]

I love water to

[@562danielle]

1. When I wash my hands I grab soap first then add a little bit of water to my hands, turn off the faucet and scrub my hands together before finally rinsing. 2. I turn the shower water off when I scrub my body. What else could I do to conserve water? How can I buy water while reducing my plastic consumption and save money?

[@Anugrah_Amriza]

How to conserve water: close the tap when you are not using it. And also, Stop dumping Toxic Material to lakes and rivers. It decreases the world's freshwater percentage and raises the world's non-drinkable water supply percentage

[@SerengetiNationalParadise]

This is possible and very simple. Let protect our planet 🌏..

[@777erikg]

Water cycle=you can't waste water Water waste=wasting money

[@SerengetiNationalParadise]

@@777erikg Thank you

[@kiarahelen6006]

Low-key an advertisement. Logic: if you like the enviornment use this detergent. Okay. But how is that detergent eco friendly? What are other ways to reduce water intake?

[@SerengetiNationalParadise]

I didn't understand too. But anyway let protect our mother nature..

[@kiarahelen6006]

@coffeeinthemorning The point of my post is that how can we live more ecofriendly? It's interesting that your mind goes from a question to an extreme example. No one suggested cleaning clothes in a river. Unless... you're into that?

[@kiarahelen6006]

@coffeeinthemorning low flow is a good thing. Fairly certain that no one is trying to take your dishwasher away from you. The purpose of this video is to sell you detergent. Sure there are climate extremists out there, but there are people who do not address the fact our life on earth is in trouble and we need to make moves in order to stop this.

[@cloudhair5921]

Another tip is while you're waiting for the water to warm up before a shower collect the clean cold water in a bucket and use it to water your garden/plants or to even flush the toilet.

[@jonathantsang6845]

2.08 billion gallons of water per day for golf course …. Rich people can waste water for entertainment. Why do ordinary people like us still have to save water .

[@rjlx3]

I love water

[@perrieedwards7629]

Yass i fell connected with it❣️

[@kingnostalgia7911]

Wa er

[@SM-1010]

The sad thing is, there are people who think there is no such thing as wasting water.

[@SM-1010]

coffeeinthemorning are u ignorant? I’m all for helping things out but your probably the type of person to continue to let the faucet run

[@charlietube7165]

LOL coffee ☕

[@Sannidor]

Nonsense. You need a lot of water in urban area sewage so it does not clog. One month of 'reduced flushing' and you have a disaster coming.

[@AngryKittens]

There is. In countries which are not in arid or desert climates. Not every place is Colorado or California or Pakistan or the Sahara or the Middle East or the Australian Outback...

[@SM-1010]

Angry Kittens doesn’t matter what type of climate it is there is always a chance for water to dry up. For example, New York is not a very hot state and is starting to have water reserves dry up. Weather changes and that could cause this finite resource to dry up

[@E.A.D.GGroove-tw4xv]

I remember the buttons that read, "Save water, shower with a friend".

[@akshaysehgal8944]

I need to be on that team. To do things that people neglect in daily life.

[@charlietube7165]

You need money to do charity now days

[@SerengetiNationalParadise]

We all needs to conserve water 💦.

[@charlietube7165]

Says the lion....

[@777erikg]

Lions barely have water lol

[@NatGeo]

We couldn't agree more. Thanks for watching the video!

[@SerengetiNationalParadise]

@@charlietube7165 sure

[@SerengetiNationalParadise]

@@777erikg 😂 😂

[@shubhamR01]

💚💚💚 NOTHING without WATER.

[@NatGeo]

Absolutely, Shubham. We hope you enjoyed this video!

[@marufali5484]

Hello National Geographic National Geographic you best channel in world !!!! From Uzbekistan

[@aneessanazar]

👌👌👌🌹🌹🌹 Eid mubarak

[@777erikg]

Thank you for trying to conserve my element...water...I appreciate it.

[@colerusso436]

Woah I’m here when it was posted 1 minute ago, noice

[@woocheongan1437]

I hope more people will see this video and change their current status of water use. Water resources are precious and scarce. I hope the public can raise their awareness of water conservation and strengthen water resources protection.

[@naimranizam6741]

i think its kinda stupid that people rinse their dishes and then put it in the dishwasher.. why dont just give it a soap-sponge moment after rinsing it..

[@theanonymouscomet4373]

yeah I don’t get it either.

[@562danielle]

exactly, at that point just hand wash.

[@Richie016]

Water is the most essential & commonly available natural resource; conservation 🌊🌀 of water helps eliminate chances of water scarcity & ecological hazard.

[@itspeekaboo]

Thank you N.G

[@charlietube7165]

Naughty girl?

[@hrishikeshmnamboothiripad1397]

Being in a country like India, the practices they adopt seem almost obvious with reusing greywater where we have been doing that for some time now. We rarely use dishwashers. Btw, this is not to boast but I do feel that a country like US needs to take tips from semi-arid countries and stop reinventing the wheel.

[@RR_DM]

Sometimes automatic faucets waste more water than they save when they're activated when someone walks by one...and you could utilize the ocean to put out fires, conserving the freshwater for showers and filtering to a potable, again, water run off can be used for watering lawns, reclaimed water should never be drunk

[@vthilton]

Save Our Planet

[@Celis.C]

The sad thing is that solutions typically aren't sought until AFTER something bad happens. It wouldn't surprise me that it might take a full year or decade of extreme water shortages before anything "is done", by which it will very likely be far too late. If change is to happen, it'll have to happen with you and me. After all, awareness of a problem is the first step towards fixing it.

[@EyesOfByes]

Easy fix, drill a hole from the ocean to Death Valley. The height decline partly helps with the pressure needed for the desalination.

[@AngryKittens]

And kill an entire ecosystem and change the climate of the entirety of North America.

[@EyesOfByes]

@@AngryKittens Yup, probably true. Changing the environment has often had slight side effects, to say the least.

[@subhicshas7553]

Using the shower water to flush toilets is a genius idea . I want more and more people to promote it

[@kennywills8797]

Habits are hard to break even good ones. My normal habits: Never let water run down the drain while 'warming' it up for a shower. Catch it in a bucket/pretzel container. You can use that water for plants/garden or even filling up toilet tank. My uncle Chuck taught us this 60 years ago: Use two phases for shower. First turn around and get wet. Then TURN OFF water and then use soap on all your body. Third phase. Turn water back on and rinse. Then turn off for good. If you have a slow leaking faucet collect the drips into a plastic glass.

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Excellent Video. N. G. 💐💐🇮🇳💐💐

[@monsterhand849]

The whole video shows somerhing everyone has seen bevore and we are still impresed that is nature

[@shendaraalshedir1933]

We are SOOO lucky here in Canada as far as trees & fresh water sources go. Ok, we are spoilt. I don't know that we truly appreciate that fact as we should. I have never liked wasteful dishwashers btw. 🇨🇦☘️

[@majidasaaddine7006]

Fantastic ☺️

[@arishakhan3080]

Clean water is just not important or a necessity where there is a problem of water but throughout the world, people who don't get water or who get water in abundance should know that clean water can easily turn into a luxury item if they waste it. Though people can still afford luxury but still the purification of water requires a lot of other resources which are again needed to be conserved so water needs to be saved wherever you live. Use different ways to conserve water. Use bucket instead of that shower. You really are helping people and the environment.

[@TimeTheory2099]

Design and build more energy efficient desalination water pumping plants.

[@redsteddi]

Fantastic ideas 😊

[@ابراهيمجبار-ل1و]

We have to conserving water 💧

[@DeividManuRos]

WOW lOVE

[@utkarshshankar1]

If u can make these kind of videos in the Himalayas it would be awesome!!

[@RembangTV]

Nice

[@KhanZaj2020]

Great

[@ImThatCrazyCatWoman]

If you care about water conservation and still eat meat, you need to reevaluate yourself.

[@louandlilly]

That seems like a slightly narrow view that lacks taking everything into account. Caring about water conservation is about “caring about water” in itself, it’s slightly selfish in a way to ensure we always have water. However caring about vegetarianism or not is far less selfish and not nearly as straight forward as it appears

[@charlietube7165]

LOL I thought you two are one person LMAO

[@hotwheelsearl]

Does eating caterpillars countt as meat?

[@gdamore123]

Animal agriculture is the reason we are already running out of water, closing the tap when doing the dishes (sure it matters) is a tiny fraction of how much billions of animals are drinking to be slaughtered the next day... and the cycle goes on... look it up!

[@hotwheelsearl]

Giulio D'Amore that is very true. However, it’s a hard sell to tell people to suddenly stop eating meat. It’s just not realistic, even if it would be nice. There have been pushes to market insects as a delicacy to replace animal meat, but the west is generally pretty resistant to that

[@jemrock1441]

👍 Good friend 🙂 💫 👍

[@DeividManuRos]

amazing

[@compellingpeople]

Let's talk about how on brand they are in this video, camp, arcteryx, etc.

[@wendilandkammer8368]

If the term water conservation means available clean drinking water, then the industries which consume huge amounts of clean water while contributing large amounts of contamination back into the water supply need to change. While things like water saving shower heads and scraping plates before rinsing before they go into a dishwasher and using water reduction in consumption appliances, washing machines are good practices, if it's just us at the household level trying to be mindful, it's still only part of the whole picture.

[@swrtsolutionsinc.1092]

irrigation+rainfall = evaporation + transpiration + runoff + leaching Which one of these processes do Farmers really have control over during the growing season? If you have the ability to irrigate your sandy soils and water is cheap and plentiful, then you are fortunate and have some control on the left side of the equation. If you do not have irrigation, you must look at the factors on the right side of the equation to see what can be controlled or minimized to benefit your crop. Evaporation from the soil surface can be reduced with mulch or leaving crop residue on the soil surface. Transpiration is a function of the plant leaf surface area and the weather. Runoff is or should be minimal in sandy textured soils with high percolation rates. This leaves the leaching of water out of the root zone as the #1 controllable loss of moisture to your crop. Interrupting the downward movement of moisture in your soil by installing a "smart" barrier can greatly reduce the leaching of water and nutrients. SWRT subsurface membranes detain/retain up to 90% of irrigation or rainfall in the root zone for crop use by disrupting the gravitational movement of water in the soil while still allowing excess water to percolate and do not create anaerobic soil conditions.

[@Baileys.small.engine.repair]

Which of the following ways should I use to water my plants and lawn to conserve the most water? 1. Hose 2. Watering can 3. Sprinkler

[@vmobile890]

Night sprinkler on timer adjusted not to water the cement . Most people don’t have time needed to equally hand spray water .

[@Baileys.small.engine.repair]

@@vmobile890 thank you for answering!☺

[@shahul983]

Super

[@charlietube7165]

Duper

[@yonischecter5986]

The guy looks like a younger Bert the Machine

[@TomokosEnterprize]

What would you do if Canada turned the tap off ?

[@williamcoolidge9884]

We would bomb them back into the stone age.

[@gcusscenes4488]

If we constructed a dame in particular areas , then it will be possible to control on water.

[@bertha4085]

Use the dishwasher and save water

[@Xeexrezz8175]

Canada be like: I don’t need water. I need the fricken maple syrup!

[@raulp4607]

How cleaning salt water?

[@GregKealey]

What’s the background song at the start

[@Juan_A_Garcia]

Nice videoooooooOOOO 📹

[@o.o2561]

50 years? Might wanna start desalinating the oceans asap, we're having water shortages around the world right now. I give us 5 years.

[@isabellaenigmatic684]

California is beginning. Put up a big desalination plant. Problem is it's pricier. Water companies don't want to mess with their bottom lines. But they'll do it if the only water available is salt water. It's a pity. It's not even hard to desalinate.

[@razzelda6914]

epic

[@la_2elah_2ela_allah]

ربنا لا إله إلا أنت سبحانك ظلمنا أنفسنا ظلمآ كثيرآ وإن لم تغفر لنا وترحمنا لنكونن من الخاسرين ... سبحانك ربنا تباركت وتعاليت آمنا فقنا عذاب النار. اللهم صل وسلم وبارك عليك يا سيدنا يا محمد يا رسول الله .

[@comrade369]

Swimming pools are major cause.

[@demonorse]

Dishwasher? What is that?

[@charlietube7165]

Food what is that

[@cgarciahfcu]

2:17 That's the cleanest "dirty" dish I've ever seen. If you're going to scold us for rinsing, then at least show us an actual dirty dish to make your point.

[@Mirsab]

Colorado gets more snow than Alaska??!!!

[@timperry6948]

Large swaths of the Arctic and Antarctic are actually desert based on the amount of precipitation they receive.

[@josahh]

❤️✨

[@Dirtybaybaby]

Hi

[@thundergamingzone320]

Hey net geo love from india 🇮🇳

[@charlietube7165]

Stop washing yourself in the river

[@Sannidor]

Dishwasher habits saving water? You know how much H2O *the industry* consumes? NATG, you became a parody of activism and awareness.

[@Alien42x]

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[@tolpsvh]

Couldnt agree more. This is just an adver...

[@nelizajoey26]

just wash dishes by hand instead of using a dishwasher especially if there is 2 people in a house

[@ranadeep7462]

0:54

[@grandmaashley]

Grandma approved

[@charlietube7165]

LOL pro

[@Fernandogdc]

No comment about the water usage in the meat and dairy industry when they're the responsible for the most part of it. So you think shower and dish washers are the problem? You are totally missing the point about the water problem.

[@ImThatCrazyCatWoman]

Yep, one hamburger is about the equivalent of two month's worth of shower water. And fake environmentalists act like not turning off your tap when you brush your teeth is the issue

[@guillermogutierrez-santana4446]

Seems like the video is teaching you how to conserve water yourself, how would they teach you to make the dairy industry stop using so much water? Teach you how to vandalize their equipment or something?

[@guillermogutierrez-santana4446]

Amanda Voss That’s literally fake, that garbage lie came out around the time that the Toyota Prius fist launched, and was so widely debunked that even tabloids had to issue corrections.

[@babecat2000]

Vegan propaganda

[@guillermogutierrez-santana4446]

@@amandavoss496 Your claim that lithium batteries are bad for the environment. It's literally so easy to disprove or atleast find on snopes. I can't believe there's people like you willing to soak up any disinformation the fossil industry creates without any further research on your end.

[@armandoboensel593]

Apperently ppl haven't heard of desalination. Being 40% of the population lives near the ocean I'm pretty sure thier a solution thier.

[@fightingforthefuture2941]

Put bottles in your toilet tank filled with sand, it saves water when flushing.

[@Kevin-xs1ft]

An Above-average CC named CC

[@mycologist1372]

Tell us how much the coal industry uses.

[@erik9157]

Glad I own a waterless car wash business

[@sjmusicz]

after seeing NG the heaven exist and the heaven is THE EARTH🌴🌳🌠💞⛄🌅🐦🐘🐨🐒

[@charlietube7165]

NG? No gate heaven LoL

[@sjmusicz]

@@charlietube7165 NAT GEO BRO😂

[@tolpsvh]

Now, let's just not use finish and bicarb instead.

[@SprinkleofWilly]

my sister can fill a basin full of water by washing only a milk bottle

[@NibberKSmooth]

1. Do NOT use a dishwasher, hand wash everything 2.Only shower, do NOT have a bath 3. Make sure your boiler is the most energy-efficient one there is and switch it off when not in use 4. Mostly use cold water

[@bonnie7594]

Most new dishwashers tend to be more water efficient than handwashing, just as long as you dont run it all the time (til its actually full) and dont prerinse.

[@kennywills8797]

Habits are hard to break even good ones. My normal habits: Never let water run down the drain while 'warming' it up for a shower. Catch it in a bucket/pretzel container. You can use that water for plants/garden or even filling up toilet tank. My uncle Chuck taught us this 60 years ago: Use two phases for shower. First turn around and get wet. Then TURN OFF water and then use soap on all your body. Third phase. Turn water back on and rinse. Then turn off for good. If you have a slow leaking faucet collect the drips into a plastic glass.

[@NebalAnaim]

Thanks a lot. Great & Smart ideas to reuse shower water into toilet flushing. By the way: Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him saw Saad abluting and asked him: "Why this extravagance, Saad!?". He replied: Is there extravagance in water!?. Prophet Muhammad answered: "Yes, even if you were on a running river". Sources/References: Narrated by Ahmad (6768) and Ibn Majah (419) from Abdullah Ibn Amro Ibn Alaass. Shaykh Ahmad Shakir and others said: Its chain of narrators is "Authentic". قال الشيخ أحمد شاكر وغيره : إسناده صحيح روى الإمام أحمد (6768) وابن ماجة(419) عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ رضي الله عنهما (أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَرَّ بِسَعْدٍ وَهُوَ يَتَوَضَّأُ فَقَالَ : مَا هَذَا السَّرَفُ يَا سَعْدُ ؟ قَالَ : أَفِي الْوُضُوءِ سَرَفٌ ؟ قَالَ : نَعَمْ ، وَإِنْ كُنْتَ عَلَى نَهْرٍ جَارٍ) .

[@williamcoolidge9884]

Whether you "conserve" it or "waste" it, the amount of water in the world is constant (or nearly so). Therefore I use as much as a want. I even keep the faucet running when I brush my teeth.

[@fla5hpointstudios638]

So never flush the toilet is what I'm hearing

[@carel8016]

who is here just because our mom told us to.

[@charlietube7165]

Don't drink...

[@anirudhsingh2354]

First Comment. But lets do something about it.

[@Plouh]

No I was forst

[@anirudhsingh2354]

@@Plouh okay I agree with you.

[@sleyaraze8916]

r/hydrohomies approve

[@lemonboy9yearsago760]

Make water really expensive lie that water is almost gone

[@777erikg]

Lol ppl would just go filter ocean water or use water they have already

[@777erikg]

And they can't charge more for tap water without notice or maybe not at all..idk

[@annettah13]

2020

[@samisalive4652]

HEY I DRINK THAT HA I DRINK WATER

[@jonathantsang6845]

Stop making these videos 😂 2.08 billion gallons of water per day for golf course …. Rich people can waste water for entertainment. Why do ordinary people like us still have to save water .

[@MuhammadUsman-cz3hs]

North Pakistan best in geographically in world.

[@klapz8365]

Early

[@pauloliver8958]

Cro-Magnon-species has created a problem it is now trying to rectify. 😑

[@robroberts1473]

Someone tell China there is a shortage of freshwater.

[@charlietube7165]

Everyone knows...

[@robroberts1473]

@@charlietube7165 I am betting China doesn't think so.

[@charlietube7165]

@@robroberts1473 people don't care doesn't mean they don't know

[@bnhdeluxe]

💦

[@Plouh]

Yo I allways listen to your music and it’s 🔥

[@hotwheelsearl]

What a strange advertisement

[@charlietube7165]

LOL Pro

[@AmazingAcc273]

Erika💀 Listen to the German empire anthem names "Erika”

[@Noukz37]

I had such high hopes with this video NG and you let me down again... I was surprised you mentioned nothing about buying used instead of new and eating less meat and dairy. At the end I see that it's sponsored by the industry giant whose products we should be actually boycotting. BIG dislike from me

[@Noukz37]

@coffeeinthemorning I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, but I'll reply anyway, as it seems like that could've been a question you posted. This has EVERYTHING to do with water conservation, but they missed out on one of the biggest ways to reduce your water usage. Please do some research on it. I'm not pushing anything on all the humans, I just said that I'm disappionted that an establishment like NG is ommitting somthing important like that, and is furthermore being sponsored by a pharmaceutical company. I hope I'm now more clear about what I said?

[@Noukz37]

@coffeeinthemorning I'm not boycotting any medicine. (except potential Covid-19 vaccine) I said I don't want to buy products from big pharmaceutical companies. I try not to buy anything that is made from a big company. I go to local chains and small stores.

[@christianwilliams1136]

We could also save a lot of water just by going plant based eating, as the animal agriculture industry takes up 1/3 of all drinkable water on this planet.

[@babecat2000]

Wrong! Vegans waste water too. Just don't raise animals in drought areas.

[@christianwilliams1136]

@@babecat2000 83% of the US agriculture is from animal agriculture and it's not that different for the rest of the western world. A plant based lifestyle takes up 1/15 of the land that an omnivorous lifestyle would. We could reclaim and re-wild 75% of all the land that has been cut down by animal agriculture which is the main driver for deforestation and species extinction.

[@babecat2000]

@@christianwilliams1136 Wrong ! Your diet doesn't help at all A lot of forest is cut down to grow plants also a lot of areas that are cold can't have a growing season for it. Vegans are more likely to have vitamin defecencey. Quit pushing a flawed diet.

[@christianwilliams1136]

babecat2000 before spewing miss information like you’ve been doing at least back up what you are saying with science.

[@christianwilliams1136]

@@babecat2000 What is mostly planted in the US and Canada is soy, corn and alfalfa. And those crops are mainly for livestock, not for people and that accounts for 83% of all agriculture specially in the US.

[@wida2775]

Dont drink water, lol

[@JBolt89sEDU]

this was boring

[@lindsay4158]

I think I’m bored

[@samletterman1082]

Endless immigration doesn’t help.

[@samletterman1082]

coffeeinthemorning Yeah. It’s crazy. And people never wanted it, not in 1964 when the immigration act was signed. Not in 1994 when it was close to being changed, and not today. We are full. 200 million was a good stopping point. The US fought a very expensive war AND landing on the moon and we didn’t even have 200 million people. We don’t need a huge population to be strong. And if anything our increasing population is weakening us and causing ecological damage.

[@williamcoolidge9884]

Irrigation doesn't help either. So much water wasted!