The purpose of water conservation is to increase the amount of clean water available.Some of the methods of water conservation are as follows:
- Using less water and avoiding wastage at home.
- Using better methods of irrigation,such as drip irrigation,in which water is supplied to the roots of plants drop by drop,instead of filling the entire field with water.
- Recycling of water in factories and using it several times before it it disposed off.
- Effective flood controls,specially by building dams and reservoirs.
- Soil conservation methods,such as planting trees increases the level of groundwater.
- Treating sewage and the factory waste before disposing them off so that water sources are not polluted.
- Using biodegradable fertilizers and pesticides.
- Water harvesting of rainwater to raise the groundwater level.
