What should be conserved more, energy or water?
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I personally think water
Energy cause water is renewable.
There is no reason to only try to conserve one. It is easy to incorporate small steps into your life that would save both.
Water-turn off the faucet while you brush your teeth, scrub all your dishes in hot soapy water then stack them in the other side of the sink then rinse them all at once, let God (or the natural process of precipitation) water your lawn, water your lawn in the evening so less gets evaporated and wasted, purchase low-flow faucets and toilets, fill a plastic water bottle with water and put it in the back tank of your toilet to save one bottle's worth of water everytime you flush, and take shorter showers (it means you can sleep in a little, too).
Energy-purchase those compact fluorescent bulbs (even though they contain a small amount of mercury, it is less than what is produced when the other bulbs are made and if a break happens there is a mercury spill kit that could be purchased to safely clean up the mess), unplug items when not in use (you'd be amazed to learn that many electronics never turn off; they remain in standby, using almost as much electricity as when they are on), turn lights off when you are not in the room, and maybe invest in solar shingles for your house (they are a little expensive to install, but they virtually eliminate your electricity bill and the power plant must buy back any electricity you don't use). Look into geothermal heating to get rid of your gas bill.
Wouldn't it be nice if we terraced all our streams and rivers and made hydroelectric generators on all those terracing units! There is no water shortage or energy shortage, only there is a shortage of good sense.
energy all the way!!
WATER!
It's the key to life.. EVERYONE and EVERYTHING needs it ;)
Both. But energy should be conserved and invested into sustainable, clean, renewable energy, and water sources should be protected.
We have an abundance of energy sources, we just choose the cheapest (which are usually the dirtiest), but if we foul up our clean water supplies, it will cause a chain reaction of loss of food, plants and animal species, etc. Finally, it takes an incredible amount of time and effort to "clean up" a destroyed watershed.
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Might depend on where you live. In my area we experience droughts just about ea. summer when it gets over 100. We have to go on water restrictions. It is scarey to think you may run out of water. I think we need to work on both. We need more work done on renewable and alternative fuel sources. We need to work on other water sources and make cheaper ways to desalinate salt water.
Let me put it this way, if i had $100 to spend on conserving energy and water, I would spend $90 on energy and $10 on water. Water is a resouce, but it like everything else has a particular energy potential so it's really a subset of energy. How's that? Steam is water but it can be used to generate energy and has an energy potential simply by existing.
If you are choosing, then that is already the "mistake." You need to be equally worried about them. Water is renewable, but so is energy. Water is NOT that plentiful, freshwater that is, which is the ONLY water we can drink. And it costs an exorbitant amount of money to extract water from the salt-watered oceans. Most of the water we use is from precipitation, stream, rivers, run-off and a small portion from the glaciers/polar caps[which is where ALL the fresh water is]. CARE ABOUT THEM BOTH AND DO IT RIGHT NOW. :)
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