99 relations: Air pollution, Al Baydha Project, Anseriformes, Autoclave, Automatic faucet, Berlin Rules on Water Resources, Car wash, Caroma, Climate change, Composting toilet, Conservation (ethic), Conservation biology, Conservation movement, Cooling tower, Deficit irrigation, Demand, Drip irrigation, Drying, Dual flush toilet, Economic efficiency, Ecosystem, Efficiency, Electric energy consumption, Energy conservation, Environmental movement, Environmental protection, EPA WaterSense, Evaporation, Farmer, Faucet aerator, Flush toilet, Fresh water, Freshwater ecosystem, Garden hose, Gardening, GreenPlumbers, Greywater, Groundwater, Groundwater pollution, Habitat conservation, Hazardous waste, Heat exchanger, Hydrosphere, Hydrozoning, Inefficiency, Infrared, Irrigation, Landfill, Lawn, Low-flush toilet, ..., Manufacturing, Micro-sustainability, Natural landscaping, Natural resource, Non-revenue water, Nonresidential water use in the U.S., Nozzle, Outdoor water-use restriction, Outreach, Pan evaporation, Pathogen, Peak water, Population growth, Precipitation, Radiography, Rainwater harvesting, Reclaimed water, Residential water use in the U.S. and Canada, Sand filter, Septic tank, Shower, Sodium chloride, Soil organic matter, Surface irrigation, Surface runoff, Sustainability, Sustainable agriculture, Swimming pool, Toilet, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Urinal, Utility submeter, Washing machine, Wastewater treatment, Water cascade analysis, Water conservation, Water cycle, Water efficiency, Water footprint, Water industry, Water metering, Water pinch analysis, Water purification, Water quality, Water Research Foundation, Water resource management, Water resources, Water treatment, Xeriscaping. Expand index (49 more) »
Air pollution
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.
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Al Baydha Project
The Al Baydha Project, in rural, western Saudi Arabia, is a land restoration, poverty-alleviation, and heritage preservation program, based on principles of permacultural and hydrological design.
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Anseriformes
Anseriformes is an order of birds that comprise about 180 living species in three families: Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.
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Autoclave
An autoclave is a pressure chamber used to carry out industrial processes requiring elevated temperature and pressure different from ambient air pressure.
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Automatic faucet
An automatic faucet or tap (also hands-free faucet, touchless faucet, electronic faucet, motion sensing faucet, sensor faucet, or infrared faucet) is a faucet equipped with a proximity sensor and mechanism that opens its valve to allow water to flow in response to the presence of a hand or hands in close proximity.
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Berlin Rules on Water Resources
The Berlin Rules on Water Resources is a document adopted by the International Law Association (ILA) to summarize international law customarily applied in modern times to freshwater resources, whether within a nation or crossing international boundaries.
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Car wash
A car wash (also written as "carwash") or auto wash is a facility used to clean the exterior and, in some cases, the interior of motor vehicles.
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Caroma
Caroma (Caroma Dorf) is an Australian designer and distributor of bathroom products.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Composting toilet
A composting toilet is a type of toilet that treats human excreta by a biological process called composting.
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Conservation (ethic)
Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection.
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Conservation biology
Conservation biology is the management of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions.
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Conservation movement
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.
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Cooling tower
A cooling tower is a heat rejection device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream to a lower temperature.
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Deficit irrigation
Deficit irrigation (DI) is a watering strategy that can be applied by different types of irrigation application methods.
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Demand
In economics, demand is the quantities of a commodity or a service that people are willing and able to buy at various prices, over a given period of time.
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Drip irrigation
Drip irrigation is a type of micro-irrigation system that has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either from above the soil surface or buried below the surface.
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Drying
Drying is a mass transfer process consisting of the removal of water or another solvent by evaporation from a solid, semi-solid or liquid.
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Dual flush toilet
A dual-flush toilet is a variation of the flush toilet that uses two buttons or handles to flush different amounts of water.
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Economic efficiency
Economic efficiency is, roughly speaking, a situation in which nothing can be improved without something else being hurt.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Efficiency
Efficiency is the (often measurable) ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result.
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Electric energy consumption
Electric energy consumption is the form of energy consumption that uses electric energy.
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Energy conservation
Energy conservation is the effort made to reduce the consumption of energy by using less of an energy service.
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Environmental movement
The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.
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Environmental protection
Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual, organization controlled or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the environment and humans.
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EPA WaterSense
WaterSense is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program designed to encourage water efficiency in the United States through the use of a special label on consumer products.
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Evaporation
Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gaseous phase before reaching its boiling point.
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Farmer
A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.
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Faucet aerator
A faucet aerator (or tap aerator) is often found at the tip of modern indoor water faucets.
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Flush toilet
A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, flush lavatory, or water closet (WC)) is a toilet that disposes of human excreta (urine and feces) by using water to flush it through a drainpipe to another location for disposal, thus maintaining a separation between humans and their excreta.
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Fresh water
Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
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Freshwater ecosystem
Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earth's aquatic ecosystems.
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Garden hose
A garden hose, hosepipe, or simply hose is a flexible tube used to convey water.
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Gardening
Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture.
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GreenPlumbers
GreenPlumbers is an international training and accreditation program designed to help plumbers and tradesman understand their role in the environment and public health.
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Greywater
Greywater (also spelled graywater, grey water and gray water) or sullage is all wastewater generated in households or office buildings from streams without fecal contamination, i.e. all streams except for the wastewater from toilets.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Groundwater pollution
Groundwater pollution (also called groundwater contamination) occurs when pollutants are released to the ground and make their way down into groundwater.
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Habitat conservation
Habitat conservation is a management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore habitat areas for wild plants and animals, especially conservation reliant species, and prevent their extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range.
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Hazardous waste
Hazardous waste is waste that has substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment.
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Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is a device used to transfer heat between two or more fluids.
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Hydrosphere
The hydrosphere (from Greek ὕδωρ hydōr, "water" and σφαῖρα sphaira, "sphere") is the combined mass of water found on, under, and above the surface of a planet, minor planet or natural satellite.
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Hydrozoning
Hydrozoning is the practice of clustering together plants with similar water requirements in an effort to conserve water.
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Inefficiency
The term inefficiency generally refers to an absence of efficiency.
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Infrared
Infrared radiation (IR) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore generally invisible to the human eye (although IR at wavelengths up to 1050 nm from specially pulsed lasers can be seen by humans under certain conditions). It is sometimes called infrared light.
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Irrigation
Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.
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Landfill
A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.
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Lawn
A lawn is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawnmower and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes.
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Low-flush toilet
A low-flush toilet (or low-flow toilet or high-efficiency toilet) is a flush toilet that uses significantly less water than a full-flush toilet.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.
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Micro-sustainability
Micro-sustainability focuses on the small environmental actions that collectively result in a large environmental impact.
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Natural landscaping
Natural landscaping, also called native gardening, is the use of native plants, including trees, shrubs, groundcover, and grasses which are indigenous to the geographic area of the garden.
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Natural resource
Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.
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Non-revenue water
Non revenue water (NRW) is water that has been produced and is "lost" before it reaches the customer.
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Nonresidential water use in the U.S.
Nonresidential water use refers to all uses (and users) of publicly-supplied (municipal) water other than residential use.
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Nozzle
A nozzle is a device designed to control the direction or characteristics of a fluid flow (especially to increase velocity) as it exits (or enters) an enclosed chamber or pipe.
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Outdoor water-use restriction
An outdoor water-use restriction is a ban or other lesser restrictions put into effect that restricts the outdoor use of water supplies.
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Outreach
Outreach is an activity of providing services to any populations who might not otherwise have access to those services.
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Pan evaporation
Pan evaporation is a measurement that combines or integrates the effects of several climate elements: temperature, humidity, rain fall, drought dispersion, solar radiation, and wind.
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Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος pathos "suffering, passion" and -γενής -genēs "producer of") or a '''germ''' in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease; the term came into use in the 1880s.
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Peak water
Peak water is a concept that underlines the growing constraints on the availability, quality, and use of freshwater resources.
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Population growth
In biology or human geography, population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population.
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Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.
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Radiography
Radiography is an imaging technique using X-rays to view the internal form of an object.
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Rainwater harvesting
Rainwater harvesting is the accumulation and storage of rainwater for reuse on-site, rather than allowing it to run off.
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Reclaimed water
Reclaimed or recycled water (also called wastewater reuse or water reclamation) is the process of converting wastewater into water that can be reused for other purposes.
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Residential water use in the U.S. and Canada
Residential water use (also called domestic use, household use, or tap water use) includes all indoor and outdoor uses of drinking quality water at single-family and multifamily dwellings.
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Sand filter
Sand filters are used as a step in the water treatment process of water purification.
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Septic tank
A septic tank is a chamber made of concrete, fiberglass, PVC or plastic, through which domestic wastewater (sewage) flows for primary treatment.
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Shower
A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water.
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Sodium chloride
Sodium chloride, also known as salt, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chloride ions.
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Soil organic matter
Soil organic matter (SOM) is the organic matter component of soil, consisting of plant and animal residues at various stages of decomposition, cells and tissues of soil organisms, and substances synthesized by soil organisms.
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Surface irrigation
Surface irrigation is defined as the group of application techniques where water is applied and distributed over the soil surface by gravity.
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Surface runoff
Surface runoff (also known as overland flow) is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.
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Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways based on an understanding of ecosystem services, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment.
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Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or paddling pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.
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Toilet
A toilet is a piece of hardware used for the collection or disposal of human urine and feces.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.
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Urinal
A urinal is a sanitary plumbing fixture for urination only, predominantly used by males.
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Utility submeter
Utility submetering is a system that allows a landlord, property management firm, condominium association, homeowners association, or other multi-tenant property to bill tenants for individual measured utility usage.
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Washing machine
A washing machine (laundry machine, clothes washer, or washer) is a device used to wash laundry.
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Wastewater treatment
Wastewater treatment is a process used to convert wastewater into an effluent (outflowing of water to a receiving body of water) that can be returned to the water cycle with minimal impact on the environment or directly reused.
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Water cascade analysis
Water cascade analysis (WCA) is a technique to calculate the minimum flowrate target for feedwater and wastewater for continuous water-using processes.
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Water conservation
Water conservation includes all the policies, strategies and activities to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, to protect the hydrosphere, and to meet the current and future human demand.
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Water cycle
The water cycle, also known as the hydrological cycle or the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth.
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Water efficiency
Water efficiency is reducing water wastage by measuring the amount of water required for a particular purpose and the amount of water used or delivered.
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Water footprint
The water footprint shows the extent of water use in relation to consumption by people.
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Water industry
The water industry provides drinking water and wastewater services (including sewage treatment) to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of the economy.
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Water metering
Water metering is the process of measuring water use.
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Water pinch analysis
Water pinch analysis (WPA) originates from the concept of heat pinch analysis.
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Water purification
Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from water.
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Water quality
Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological characteristics of water.
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Water Research Foundation
The Water Research Foundation (WRF) conducts research related to drinking water quality, treatment and utility infrastructure to help water providers and public health agencies provide safe and affordable drinking water.
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Water resource management
Water resource management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing and managing the optimum use of water resources.
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Water resources
Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful.
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Water treatment
Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it more acceptable for a specific end-use.
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Xeriscaping
Xeriscaping is landscaping and gardening that reduces or eliminates the need for supplemental water from irrigation.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conservation