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Water Conservation Tips Why should you conserve water? Like many
things around us, we seldom appreciate what is plentiful and
easily accessible. What could be more accessible and apparently
plentiful than water? All we have to do is turn on the faucet
any time 24 hours a day and there is plenty of water for our
use. Water doesn’t just magically appear. It costs money to draw
water from a lake or river or to pull it up from an aquifer. It
appears in our homes only after it has traveled through miles of
pipes and perhaps even a treatment process. Communities like
ours draw water from wells drilled deep down in the earth from a
source that is now dwindling – the aquifer. Due to decreasing
amounts in our aquifers, water systems such as ours may be
required to reduce our dependence on this source of water –
another demonstration of the need to conserve. Water is simply a
valuable resource that shouldn’t be wasted. Only 1% of the
entire water supply on