New Ways to Save Water

 

Written by Jenny Catton

 

When it comes to saving water around the home, most of us are familiar with the usual advice – choose showers rather than baths, don’t leave taps running and fix any drips. And whilst it’s true that these simple steps can make a big difference; modern technology and clever gadgets now offer a whole host of new ways to save even more water.

 

In the bathroom

Try eco-shower heads to reduce the amount of water used when you take a shower. These devices cause water droplets to be filled with air – giving you a refreshing shower but using less water.

 

In the loo

It’s estimated that 30% of household water usage comes from flushing the loo. Invest in a water-saving device for your cistern and you could save over a litre of water every time you flush.

 

In the garden

Swap your traditional hosepipe for a spray gun. Because the spray gun is operated with a trigger, you only direct the water exactly where you need it, meaning you use less.

 

In the kitchen

If you find you regularly boil more water than you need, you may want to invest in an eco-kettle. These let you fill the kettle but then you dictate how much you want to boil and use at a time. The rest of the water then remains un-boiled in the kettle for use later. This not only saves water as you’re not throwing away the extra water you’ve boiled but also saves energy as you’re only heating the water you need.

 

For more ways to save water around the home, visit: www.futurefriendly.co.uk

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Six Things You Can Do to Help Save Energy

Saving energy is just one of many things you can do to sure up your environmental wellness, but how do you do it? We’ve got some advice to help you save energy:

 

1. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: Not only is driving everywhere bad for the planet, it also doesn’t do your wellbeing any favours. Keep fit and look after the environment by leaving your car at home twice a week. It sounds like a small measure, but this one act can help cut greenhouse gas emissions by 1,600 pounds per year. Don’t go shopping or run errands multiple times but save them up so you only need to go driving once. If your company lets you work from home sometimes, arrange to spend a few days a week out of the office so you don’t need to use your car to commute. You could also cycle, take public transport or, if you live too far away, drive as much as you need to and walk the rest of the way. These acts can help to reduce air pollution and traffic congestion – and save you money.

 

2. Don’t Idle: If your child’s school has a bus system, remind the school that bus engines should be switched off when buses are parked. When school buses are idling, the exhaust can pollute air in and around the bus, and can enter the school building through air intakes, doors, and open windows. Idling also wastes fuel and money which is pointless considering that school bus engines really need only a few minutes to warm up.

 

3. Check Your Electrics: How much of your electricity comes from renewable “green” power sources, such as wind or solar? You can check online to make sure you’re with the greenest provider possible. Green power reduces air pollution, produces less carbon emissions, and helps protect against future costs or scarcity of fossil fuels.

 

4. Make Your Home an Energy Star: Whenever you’re maintaining your home, why not do a home energy audit? This can help you find out how you can save money by making your home more energy efficient. Even if it’s something as simple as replacing your conventional light bulbs with energy-efficient ones, you can save a great deal of energy and money. If every home in the US, for example were to replace just one conventional light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb, they would save enough energy to light more than three million homes a year.

 

5. ECycle It: When your computer, DVD player, or other electronics die, take them to an electronics recycling centre, or look online for places that will come pick them up. Electronics actually contain a lot of vital natural resources such as copper and gold, and reusing and recycling these materials can help to reduce mining and processing. Moreover, by eCycling your electronic goods, you can help to reduce and avoid land, air and water pollution. Capturing and reusing hazardous substances such as lead or chromium prevents these substances getting into the environment.

 

6. Be an Ambassador: If everyone made such small changes as those listed above, we could make a monumental impact on the wellbeing of the planet. However, people need to hear about these changes before they can implement them in their lives – and this is where you come in. Now you have a great list of things to do to save energy, you can tell the people you know all about it. Explain to your child’s school why it’s important to teach students about energy conservation, and try to make your workplace more energy aware. Talk to you friends – help spread the word!

 

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Medical Transport Helps Save Lives

Although it is unfortunate to admit, it is undeniable that the world we live in is a violent and dangerous one, one full of constant peril and distress, one where people are injured and killed every day. But have you ever considered how many injuries are treated and how many deaths are prevented thanks to Medical Transport? The entire purpose of medical transport is to provide the required treatment to an ailing person while traveling to a place where they will be able to get more thorough treatment. But imagine that the world had no medical transport, that everyone who needed to get to a hospital was reliant on themselves or those immediately surrounding them to get there quickly and under circumstances that would keep them out of fear of death until they arrived. Medical transport provides the world with something that it genuinely needs, provides a service that would other wise not only be unavailable, but would cost the lives of many.

 

Medical transports have incredible capacities for emergency, and can manage to sustain conditions conducive to emergency medical treatment well enough and long enough to keep countless people alive long enough to make it to proper care units. They have specialized equipment and mobile intensive care units that deepen the extent to which they are prepared to care for the emergency medical needs of a patient, and are able to do so with efficiency and speed.

 

One of the largest contributing factors to the success and to the overall impact made by medical transport is the fact that they are fully staffed with professionals who have been trained extensively to handle an amazingly wide range of emergency and non-emergency medical situations. This faculty of highly experienced professionals work every day to preserve the lives of those in danger, and do so with willingness and unrelenting spirit that makes them role models for people everywhere. In spite of all the stress that such a job entails, these experts are highly trained and can ultimately be trusted to do what is medically and morally right in an emergency situation. Anyone in need of medical transport, especially emergency medical transport, can rest assured that they need not fear to trust the emergency medical technicians, nurses, and staff of medical transports because they are there to help people, to save lives, and have experience doing so.

 

Above all, a medical transport is always available, always ready and waiting for a call from you or from someone else in need. They are as easy to reach as every other emergency service and are rapid and efficient in their arrival and their subsequent departure upon taking you into their care. If you are ever in need of emergency medical assistance, do not hesitate to contact the emergency medical transport, regardless of whether or not it may seem that they would be unprepared for the nature of your injury or emergency. Medical Transports are always ready for anything and are readily available to anyone who is in need. They do a great service to the world and we can all be thankful that they help every day to save lives.

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