How to save water

Jul 05, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR:
Like electricity, water is an expensive and important resource, costly but necessary. Some of us have devised ways of conserving electricity and water.

With water, this is how I do it: I have a fish pond 25′ X 35,’ which provide protein to my family in the form of hassar and tilapia, grey and red. It also provides water for my plants, lawn grass and kitchen garden.

The water is transferred into a reservoir from the pond and then pumped to the entire yard. For those not having this system, any simple pump can be used, or water cans for smaller compounds.

In this way, management of GWI will not have to eat its heart out of concern for water wastage. Water should never be wasted.

Now that a meter is installed in my compound, I devised a simple but novel method of water conservation. We have an underground reservoir of 6000 gallons.

Rainwater is ducted to the reservoir as well as GWI water. Whenever rain falls, we turn off the tap so GWI water is not used during the long and rainy season, plus the water quality is Godly, as it comes from God Almighty as

“FERTILISING RAIN.”
When the rainy season is not there, we have another simple but novel method again.
We allow GWI water to run for one day, and turn it off for two days. It adds up and saves much.

I wish to encourage Guyanese with any land space to install a small pond for plant watering and growing of fish.

A small fence can be erected to prevent children from getting to the pond. In addition, some ducks could also grow there.

We plan to get some Peking ducklings. In this way we make maximum use of the pond and piece of land designated for this. Around the pond we plant bananas, okras, lime, boras and coconut trees.
Roshan Khan