Andhra Pradesh Board Solutions for Exercise 5: EXERCISE

Read the following paragraph and answer the following question:

“I am Mary. There are six persons in my family. My grandfather says water is precious so don't waste it. My mother collects water in a bucket after cleaning rice, dal and vegetables in the kitchen which contains peels of vegetables, and we use this water for our cattle. We do not throw solid food remains, tea leaves and oily wastes down the drain. My father made a channel so that the kitchen and bathroom water flows to the coconut and banana plants in our garden. We always use mild soaps and detergents so that this water may not harm our plants. One day my grandmother asked me to measure drops of water that leaked from a tap in the bathroom, I noticed that three mugs full of water leaked from that tap in a day. Then she asked me to calculate how many mugs of water were wasted in a year. We immediately got our tap repaired.”

What are the ways in which Mary's family conserves water at home?

How can you conserve water in your home?

Do people in your area conserve water? How? If they don’t, think and write some suggestions that you would like to give them.