Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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Day: April 30, 2021
Nature Maintenance is the Care and Management of Nature.
Nature has a relative attribute with humans. It has already provided us enough resources for our wellbeing, so it is our duty to maintain its vitality. Nature maintenance is the care and management of nature and water is its integral part. If every individual makes an effort to keep the environment clean, the percentage of water pollution gradually decreases and less energy is consumed to make water drinkable as water treatment plants are significant consumers of energy.
Drinking water supplied by the government is considered safe but drinking water sources can become contaminated, causing sickness and disease. Public drinking water systems use different methods of water treatment to provide safe drinkable water as drinking water requires proper treatment to remove disease-causing germs. The most common steps in water treatment used by community water systems include:
Even though regulatory agencies, sets standards for public drinking water, many households use home water treatment units to:
- Remove specific contaminants
- Take extra precautions because a household member has a compromised immune system
- Improve the taste of drinking water
The most common types of household water treatment systems consist of:
- Filtration Systems
A water filter is a device which removes impurities from water through physical, chemical, and/or biological process. - Water Softeners
A water softener is a device that reduces the hardness of the water and water softener typically uses sodium or potassium ions to replace calcium and magnesium ions, the ions that create “hardness.” - Distillation Systems
Distillation is a process in which impure water is boiled so that the steam is collected and condensed in a separate container, leaving many of the solid contaminants behind. - Disinfection
Disinfection is a physical or chemical process in which pathogenic microorganisms are deactivated or killed. Examples of chemical disinfectants are chlorine, chlorine dioxide and ozone on the other hand physical disinfectants include ultraviolet light, electronic radiation, and heat.
Water treatment removes contaminants and undesirable components, or reduces their concentration so that the water becomes fit for its desired end-use.
This treatment is crucial to human health and allows humans to benefit from both drinking and irrigation. But the cost of energy used in it is high, which again leads to nature’s exploitation, so nature maintenance is very much needed.