One person that always has your back is your plumber, whether it’s in dealing with clogs, repairing leaks, or making sure your family has clean water that’s safe to drink, cook with, clean with, and bathe with.
Here’s everything you need to know about the importance of clean water, how you can help save it, and your plumbing superhero’s role in the process.
What Would Happen if Your Plumber Didn’t Have Your Back with Clean Water?
Have you ever gone camping or to a cottage and had somebody tell you not to drink the water from a specific lake, stream, or another source?
The reason is likely because the water was contaminated with some pathogen, such as giardia, E. coli, salmonella, or some other bacteria, virus, or microorganism that could cause nausea, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, and other symptoms.
Although it’s a slight hassle to have to avoid a water source when you’re on vacation, imagine if you had to contend with that every day. There are billions of people all around the world who don’t have access to clean water, and whose closest water sources are contaminated with similar pathogens, heavy metals, herbicides, or similar contaminants that make the water undrinkable.
Water Conservation: Having Your Plumber’s Back
Saving water has been a hot environmental topic for many years, but as the planet continues to grow warmer, the issue is going to become more critical.
Everybody has a part to play in water conservation, and there are many things you can do around the house right now to participate and help out your local plumber’s efforts to provide clean water at the same time. Getting started with water-saving activities is easy, and here are some tips:
Kitchen activities: Don’t use the garbage disposal, fill the sink to hand-wash dishes, run the dishwasher only when there’s a full load, use the smallest pot possible to boil or steam foods, and save cooking water to use in the garden.
Outdoor activities: Use a rain barrel to collect water, replace water-intensive plants and grasses with drought-resistant ones, cover the soil with a thick layer of mulch, and never water in the middle of the day.
Bathroom activities: Take shorter showers, turn off the water when you’re lathering in the shower or brushing your teeth, flush the toilet less (never use it to flush garbage), and replace faucets, toilets, and showerheads with low-flow upgrades.
Other activities: Run the washing machine only when you have a full load or adjust the water settings for smaller loads, insulate your water heater tank and pipes, and inspect your entire house regularly for leaks.
How Your Plumber Keeps You and Your Mason, OH Neighborhood Safe
If contaminated water is a threat to the health of your family, friends, and neighbors, then plumbers really are the superheroes that keep you all safe from this danger.
By maintaining and cleaning the pipes and systems that transport clean water from A to B, and by fixing and repairing the systems that separate wastewater from clean water and transport it to and fro, plumbers are the last line of defense for your community against dirty water.
Thanks to their hard work and expertise, your water stays clean and is available on-demand and around the clock. Just about every activity you engage in relies on or has required the use of water at some time or other, even if you don’t realize it. Despite how talented your local plumbers are and how well they execute their task of providing safe and clean water, they could still use help from families like yours through conservation efforts and water waste reduction.