Bleak Report on SA's Fresh Water Supplies

TREAD LIGHTLY

Everyone knows that our resources are finite and that we need to eventually slow down or face a catastrophe that none of us has ever had to deal with before:  The unavailability of Fresh Water.  Water Rhapsody products offer you the opportunity of saving our precious resources through the re-use of grey water and the harvesting of your rainwater.  The use of Grey Water for Garden irrigation is nothing new and has been shown through scientific study to have no adverse effects on vegetation whatsoever provided some basic rules are followed.  It must be known by readers that it is never the intention of the administrator of this site to scare people into the buying of Water Rhapsody products.  We simply present here data for your consumption (with an obvious and sometimes shameful plug for our business) and allow you to make the decision.  For instance:  Does it make absolutely any sense at all to flush your toilets with fresh water? With the Garden Rhapsody Second Movement System we provide you with a means for using your grey water to flush thereby cutting your fresh water use substantially.  Below you’ll find an article published in the Mail and Guardian in November of 2008 which highlights the need for some sort of action to take place regarding the saving of Fresh Water:

South Africans should brace themselves for a severely water-stressed future, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report on the world’s ecological footprint warned this week. The influential international report has been released every two years for the past decade. In 1996 it warned that the world was heading for ecological disaster. The latest report paints an even bleaker picture of the future if consumers cannot curb their hunger for resources. A new feature is the inclusion of a water footprint. The report finds that about 50 countries face moderate or severe water stress and that the number of people suffering from year-round or seasonal water shortages is likely to increase because of climate change. “South Africa will be one of the countries hardest hit by water scarcity in 2025,” said Deon Nel, WWF Sanlam Living Waters Partnership manager. “A shortage of water will not only affect economic growth — there won’t be enough water for some people to live on.” The report finds that each person in the world consumes about 1,24-million litres of water a year — about half the volume of an Olympic swimming pool — or nearly 3 400 litres daily. Each American consumes 6 800 litres a day, compared to 2 500 litres in South Africa. Heavy past investment in water infrastructure, such as dams, had saved South Africa from having to tackle water scarcity. “But the party is over,” he said, warning that climate change will make it increasingly difficult to fill dams.