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Replace Jerry cans with sources would allow municipalities to save 13.585 kg of CO2
27/01/2011
on January 27, 2011
Aguaviva, company specializing in water treatment machines, ensures that still are many municipal units that are still using water drums, very expensive systems systems. The company has been observed as yet to day of today, the Administration and some local councils, despite the current economic context, they violate the plans for the reduction of budgets to reduce the water bill.
In the words of Gerardo Alvarez, director of Aguaviva, "apparently the austerity plan of the Administration and some local councils to reduce cost on the invoice of the water remains to be completed." If a City Council that have 20 sources in the municipal units (equivalent to a consumption of 3,000 barrels/year), would be saved each year 13.585 kilos of indirect emission of CO2 (greenhouse gas), 75.240 gallons of water in reenvasados and 187,000 gallons of water in the manufacture of more than 300 cans. "If thousands of municipalities no longer consume the water in jerrycans and replaced the consumption in network we would be giving a great step towards sustainable development".
Currently, citizens are aware of the effort to be carried out in order to reduce the amount of their water bills, it is now time this effort also made by public bodies applying technological systems that enable the reduction of consumption, the reduction of costs on invoices and the Elimination of emissions of CO2 and other threatening particles for the environment, factors which certainly does not facilitate the survival of the resources.
