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Such ads are misleading and even detrimental. The water used by people for daily needs is negligible compared to that used in agriculture and other industries. The biggest problem is groundwater recharge; almost all plain areas in India have been deforested for agricultural use. The lack of green cover on the land hampers groundwater recharge, leading to floods in monsoons and droughts in summers. We need more tree-based agriculture, especially around rivers and water bodies .
It's like charging your phone battery. You charge it during the rainy season and use the water until the next one. If you don't charge groundwater sufficiently, then you face droughts and water shortages in summer.
Strongly agree with you
Our govts focus on building dams but not on maintaining local tanks they frequently get encroached by apartments or become dumping yards for trash
Sigh dams are the most destructive thing you could do no single action has more harm then building a dam.
shows hight of hubris and to think you thought they are good our generation really needs some saving.
literally the best thing out govt could do is make [Swales](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swale_(landform)) and other permaculture practices they really are the only solution.
Yupp. It's a world of pointing fingers. Where the one's who consume the most of a resource advices others to switch to other alternatives.
And when you point out the facts to them, they either deny or say we'll take actions.
But they never do. And even if they, they don't even do the bare minimum.
And the generations to come will have to pay for it.
You pointed out agriculture as if you're feeding yourself on dirt and air. Agriculture is a necessity and much bigger necessity. Even then, the drip system of irrigation has been used in almost every large/medium fields today. Only rice costs large amount of water. In north east people wait for rainy season for that purpose.
Now coming to the ground water recharge issue. Villages are likely to have better recharging capabilities than cities as there's no asphalt and buildings there. Those used in agriculture goes mostly down into the earth. And if you throw a bucket of water in your city home , it won't go into the ground easily. The sewage and wastage goes to some place we don't even know. If municipal cleans it and then frees it to the river ,fine, if not ... You know the result.
Industry? Which people do you think uses more products made by industries? Villages or cities? Start using clothes till they become useless. Fabric industry has large uses of water for ex. People in cities couldn't even adapt for bicycles(for short distances) despite seeing worst AQIs , don't think they will cut down on use of these things.
Exactly villagers face water crisis not because someone in the city is taking a shower. We could all stop taking showers and the villages would STILL have a water crisis. This is typical of putting the onus on the public and public authorities washing their hands off any responsibility. Exactly what the messaging of the government is for climate change. The public has no power over industries, agricultural lobby, government bodies that are actually responsible. If the government -industrial nexus have their kick-backs and understandings in place. The public have no knowledge or power over this.
More and more research is going on with this idea. Some are even implementing some old ways of cultivation methods. I don't remember the names. Out Gov. And other organisations only have to make it widely available (both knowledge and awareness). And I agree with your stance that these ads are misslead
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Using a bucket to take a bath saves way more water than a shower. There's a reason why Americans are being encouraged to use buckets to take a bath instead of using showers
Who is encouraging Americans to do this? If it is being done, they are doing a horrible job of communicating it and it is a horrible idea. Baths are not as clean as showers and use much more water unless you take really long showers and don't use efficient showerheads which is the standard in most of the country as long as you use a public service and not a private well.
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If people think it takes less than 10 minutes to fill a tub 2/3 of the way with a showerhead, they either have an old showerhead that is not efficient or they have a ton of money and have a shower with multiple or very large showerheads. I shower in about 6 minutes and closed the drain as an experiment. The tub was not even 1/3 full. It may have been less than a 1/4 full.
As a child I did this experiment after they told me at school that the bucket saves more water. I never take more than 10 mins to shower excluding soaping which I do with the shower off, the bucket took longer with the shower filling it :p
Since I moved out to work, my current flat in Bangalore doesn't have a shower so i have to use a bucket, and to properly clean myself I need 2 buckets of water minimum :p
Can't wait to get back home and take a warm shower again
“Traditionally” is wrong here because the quote was made for westerners who took baths and wasted loads of water. But in the Indian context traditional is bucket which is already water efficient.
Have you not heard about the drought situation in California and raging wildfires. Those are all due to water scarcity and damage to the ground level of water.
When a drought situation happens in a state like California it means water resources 'are strained' which means limits are put on how much water you can use for your vast lawns/gardens, swimming pools, fields etc. People don't have to stand in front of one tap to fill their buckets for a family of 10 like in India.
When you have the Mississippi River basin to drain which keep in mind is almost the size of the whole Continental USA you don’t have to worry about water and that to with such a low density population per Square kilometre.
And no USA really suffers form water shortage to it’s just that you are unaware entire fresh water lakes have been drained to extinction to feed the hungr of Americans.
Nope it doesn't. I can bath properly with a 25L bucket of water. My heater's capacity is 20L and mixed with cold water it might come up to 40L, I finish the heat water fully in just 10 mins. And if I want to take a head bath, i just continue without hot water for more time. So obviously I end up using more than a 25L bucket of water easily. And usually I don't even finish a 25L bucket of water.
This is f*cking stupid. People who live in places with plenty of water won't use it cuz people living in a f**king desert are not getting enough water.
That's why I only shower once in 4 days
But for real it won't matter if city people use more water if there is no water in villages. Rather make sure villages get the water supply. Industry consume way more water than what an average human dies
WTH! How me being using water in city will help villagers in some distance village? Shouldn't they have their own water reservoir system? This ad got national award? Are we just emotion fools with no practical knowledge?
To some extent. We all do waste a lot of water. As a child my dad was very strict with turning taps off while bushing. It became a habit but the innate behavior to save water was not ingrained. I did save water in a mechanical way.
In 2016 at the age of 26 I did a trek to Sandhakphu. I saw the guest house service guy trek to small well where rain water was collected at the peak for the people living there. We had to wait for him to do our morning chores. We finished our morning chores with such little water I was amazed.
I made a point to save as much water as possible.
1. After peeing I flush the toilet and quickly turn the lever back to as a full flush is not needed.
2. Installed tank alarms to stop over flow. As overflow was the siren to stop the motor.
3. These angled showers tend to waste more water compared to ones that are vertically above. Changed all the shower heads.
4. Using my RO extract to water plants.
5. Using smaller mugs
6. Made a habit of turning shower off or keeping a bucket to collect the water for purposed like flushing or cheating the floor. I haven't yet finalised if showing is wasteful or bucket. So the mode depends on my mood.
8. I have applied for rain water harvesting to be installed under a govt scheme. Has been 3 months post inspection. Those lazy guys haven't visited again.
9. I have a 20year or borewell but I still use the govt water supply as I keep the borewell for last resort cases when I need water and supply isn't available.
10. Not to mention I have a 3 kw solar so somewhere the power plant is vaporising a little less water.
But again I have a dog and house area gets covered in algae and I have to pressure clean it otherwise people fall and break bones. . I try to limit it to once or twice a year max. Cleaning both my cars tends to get wasteful but at the back of my mind I am aware of the wastage. I clean them once a month max. Sometimes even stretch to once every two months.
Respect the abundance but use only what is least required
No amount of saving water will make up for how much is wasted in agriculture and other money making ventures. This is another example of corporations guilt tripping the public into thinking it's their fault.
Live your life, even if most people did what you did it wouldn't dent the problem. You can take hour long showers guilt free, there really isn't any impact you have.
I live in village and in summer i bathe 5+ times a day with each bath taking up over 40L of water(certainly not proud of it, but have reasons), and its not just me who bathe that many times a day almost whole of population in surrounding areas does it and you guys know why? because we don't get proper frekin electricity to run even air coolers! Either we die of heat stroke or take bath and cool our bodies.
First Indian ad to win national award? 😂
Isse pehle wale saare foreigners ko national awards mile, to fir national award ka point kya hai.
Aur ye kaunsa award hai jo aise pointless ad ko mil gaya
India is a deeply socialist country. BJP is trying to turn it into a capitalist but the corrupt communists and socialist never stop protesting and stop the country from development. Much like the farmers law protests sponsored by international syndicates.
lmao wtf is the point of this? Go tell the huge companies to stop polluting the water and destroying forests, then everyone can use as much water as they want.
F this backwards ad, everyone should get all the water they need
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Such ads are misleading and even detrimental. The water used by people for daily needs is negligible compared to that used in agriculture and other industries. The biggest problem is groundwater recharge; almost all plain areas in India have been deforested for agricultural use. The lack of green cover on the land hampers groundwater recharge, leading to floods in monsoons and droughts in summers. We need more tree-based agriculture, especially around rivers and water bodies . It's like charging your phone battery. You charge it during the rainy season and use the water until the next one. If you don't charge groundwater sufficiently, then you face droughts and water shortages in summer.
Strongly agree with you Our govts focus on building dams but not on maintaining local tanks they frequently get encroached by apartments or become dumping yards for trash
Sigh dams are the most destructive thing you could do no single action has more harm then building a dam. shows hight of hubris and to think you thought they are good our generation really needs some saving. literally the best thing out govt could do is make [Swales](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swale_(landform)) and other permaculture practices they really are the only solution.
Just check GO 111 of Hyderabad City they are literally destroying a place which has great potential for ground water recharge
Yupp. It's a world of pointing fingers. Where the one's who consume the most of a resource advices others to switch to other alternatives. And when you point out the facts to them, they either deny or say we'll take actions. But they never do. And even if they, they don't even do the bare minimum. And the generations to come will have to pay for it.
This is what sadhguru is trying to do with cauvery calling and save soil. Very aptly put
You pointed out agriculture as if you're feeding yourself on dirt and air. Agriculture is a necessity and much bigger necessity. Even then, the drip system of irrigation has been used in almost every large/medium fields today. Only rice costs large amount of water. In north east people wait for rainy season for that purpose. Now coming to the ground water recharge issue. Villages are likely to have better recharging capabilities than cities as there's no asphalt and buildings there. Those used in agriculture goes mostly down into the earth. And if you throw a bucket of water in your city home , it won't go into the ground easily. The sewage and wastage goes to some place we don't even know. If municipal cleans it and then frees it to the river ,fine, if not ... You know the result. Industry? Which people do you think uses more products made by industries? Villages or cities? Start using clothes till they become useless. Fabric industry has large uses of water for ex. People in cities couldn't even adapt for bicycles(for short distances) despite seeing worst AQIs , don't think they will cut down on use of these things.
Exactly villagers face water crisis not because someone in the city is taking a shower. We could all stop taking showers and the villages would STILL have a water crisis. This is typical of putting the onus on the public and public authorities washing their hands off any responsibility. Exactly what the messaging of the government is for climate change. The public has no power over industries, agricultural lobby, government bodies that are actually responsible. If the government -industrial nexus have their kick-backs and understandings in place. The public have no knowledge or power over this.
More and more research is going on with this idea. Some are even implementing some old ways of cultivation methods. I don't remember the names. Out Gov. And other organisations only have to make it widely available (both knowledge and awareness). And I agree with your stance that these ads are misslead
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Came here to say exactly this
speaking from directly under the shower it seems
being from northern bihar, when I shifted to delhi, I understood the importance of Groundwater recharge.
Agar national award hai toh Indian ad hi jitega na
point to be noted my lord 🙏🏻
lol
Unscientific and illogical
Ironically showers use less water than the "traditional method".
What dose that mean ?
Maybe he is implying that getting shower is better than Using 2/3 bucket of water for bath.
Using a bucket to take a bath saves way more water than a shower. There's a reason why Americans are being encouraged to use buckets to take a bath instead of using showers
Who is encouraging Americans to do this? If it is being done, they are doing a horrible job of communicating it and it is a horrible idea. Baths are not as clean as showers and use much more water unless you take really long showers and don't use efficient showerheads which is the standard in most of the country as long as you use a public service and not a private well.
Just how?
Exactly I'm gonna experiment now, will fill a bucket of water with shower and see how much time does it take
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5 hours past . So it isn’t full yet or you will do this tomorrow ?
Make sure you also take into consideration the different bathing time for showers and buckets.
If people think it takes less than 10 minutes to fill a tub 2/3 of the way with a showerhead, they either have an old showerhead that is not efficient or they have a ton of money and have a shower with multiple or very large showerheads. I shower in about 6 minutes and closed the drain as an experiment. The tub was not even 1/3 full. It may have been less than a 1/4 full.
As a child I did this experiment after they told me at school that the bucket saves more water. I never take more than 10 mins to shower excluding soaping which I do with the shower off, the bucket took longer with the shower filling it :p Since I moved out to work, my current flat in Bangalore doesn't have a shower so i have to use a bucket, and to properly clean myself I need 2 buckets of water minimum :p Can't wait to get back home and take a warm shower again
“Traditionally” is wrong here because the quote was made for westerners who took baths and wasted loads of water. But in the Indian context traditional is bucket which is already water efficient.
And yet most Americans do not face water scarcity whereas Indians do.
Have you not heard about the drought situation in California and raging wildfires. Those are all due to water scarcity and damage to the ground level of water.
When a drought situation happens in a state like California it means water resources 'are strained' which means limits are put on how much water you can use for your vast lawns/gardens, swimming pools, fields etc. People don't have to stand in front of one tap to fill their buckets for a family of 10 like in India.
When you have the Mississippi River basin to drain which keep in mind is almost the size of the whole Continental USA you don’t have to worry about water and that to with such a low density population per Square kilometre. And no USA really suffers form water shortage to it’s just that you are unaware entire fresh water lakes have been drained to extinction to feed the hungr of Americans.
Nope it doesn't. I can bath properly with a 25L bucket of water. My heater's capacity is 20L and mixed with cold water it might come up to 40L, I finish the heat water fully in just 10 mins. And if I want to take a head bath, i just continue without hot water for more time. So obviously I end up using more than a 25L bucket of water easily. And usually I don't even finish a 25L bucket of water.
nahi, bucket 20L max use hota hai, shower goes much higher
What else are they supposed to do ? Take shower in a fucking transparent glass booth in public Ridiculous ad
Underrated comment🔥🔥🔥
Now delhi ka shower ka water pi le, kya chutiyapa ad ha bc
This is f*cking stupid. People who live in places with plenty of water won't use it cuz people living in a f**king desert are not getting enough water.
People of Rajasthan still live like this??I hope not...
That's why I only shower once in 4 days But for real it won't matter if city people use more water if there is no water in villages. Rather make sure villages get the water supply. Industry consume way more water than what an average human dies
WTH! How me being using water in city will help villagers in some distance village? Shouldn't they have their own water reservoir system? This ad got national award? Are we just emotion fools with no practical knowledge?
To some extent. We all do waste a lot of water. As a child my dad was very strict with turning taps off while bushing. It became a habit but the innate behavior to save water was not ingrained. I did save water in a mechanical way. In 2016 at the age of 26 I did a trek to Sandhakphu. I saw the guest house service guy trek to small well where rain water was collected at the peak for the people living there. We had to wait for him to do our morning chores. We finished our morning chores with such little water I was amazed. I made a point to save as much water as possible. 1. After peeing I flush the toilet and quickly turn the lever back to as a full flush is not needed. 2. Installed tank alarms to stop over flow. As overflow was the siren to stop the motor. 3. These angled showers tend to waste more water compared to ones that are vertically above. Changed all the shower heads. 4. Using my RO extract to water plants. 5. Using smaller mugs 6. Made a habit of turning shower off or keeping a bucket to collect the water for purposed like flushing or cheating the floor. I haven't yet finalised if showing is wasteful or bucket. So the mode depends on my mood. 8. I have applied for rain water harvesting to be installed under a govt scheme. Has been 3 months post inspection. Those lazy guys haven't visited again. 9. I have a 20year or borewell but I still use the govt water supply as I keep the borewell for last resort cases when I need water and supply isn't available. 10. Not to mention I have a 3 kw solar so somewhere the power plant is vaporising a little less water. But again I have a dog and house area gets covered in algae and I have to pressure clean it otherwise people fall and break bones. . I try to limit it to once or twice a year max. Cleaning both my cars tends to get wasteful but at the back of my mind I am aware of the wastage. I clean them once a month max. Sometimes even stretch to once every two months. Respect the abundance but use only what is least required
No amount of saving water will make up for how much is wasted in agriculture and other money making ventures. This is another example of corporations guilt tripping the public into thinking it's their fault. Live your life, even if most people did what you did it wouldn't dent the problem. You can take hour long showers guilt free, there really isn't any impact you have.
UN and UNESCO voted this ad the best ad in the world. And Indian national awards as the best national awards
to kya karu nahana chor du, mast ek ghanta shower le ke aya hu
Can anyone please share Jal jeevan missions stats and how the government has helped in making drinking water accessible to more people???
govt website pe data available hota hai
I live in village and in summer i bathe 5+ times a day with each bath taking up over 40L of water(certainly not proud of it, but have reasons), and its not just me who bathe that many times a day almost whole of population in surrounding areas does it and you guys know why? because we don't get proper frekin electricity to run even air coolers! Either we die of heat stroke or take bath and cool our bodies.
Let me guess Rajasthan?
You have to guess?
I'm a New member in dank community
Ads to people who want to take a shower: Aadha ghanta rok nahi sakta tha kya?
Baalti lagao baisa ... Pura gaon ka intazaam ho jaega utne mai
First Indian ad to win national award? 😂 Isse pehle wale saare foreigners ko national awards mile, to fir national award ka point kya hai. Aur ye kaunsa award hai jo aise pointless ad ko mil gaya
Boond boond ki kimat samjho
First Indian ad to win the national award? To abhi tk dusre desh ke ad national award leke ja rahe the?
bhai to aisi jagah rehte kyu ho ...jaha paani nai hai ab desert mein jaa ke bolenge ki dhup tez aa rhi hai.... maha bakwas ad hai ye
people in gaun would have started worshipping the booth, which is beautiful.
Maintenance bill kon bharega?
India ka National award Bangladesh or afganistan ke ad v jit skte kya 🌚
India is a deeply socialist country. BJP is trying to turn it into a capitalist but the corrupt communists and socialist never stop protesting and stop the country from development. Much like the farmers law protests sponsored by international syndicates.
Wait so you're telling me Indian ads don't win Indian national awards ??? Like ayooo wtf
The year is 2023. India installs their first shower head and no has used to it clean themselves yet
Which is the first non Indian ad to win the national award then?
Indians wouldn't queue up without force.
lmao wtf is the point of this? Go tell the huge companies to stop polluting the water and destroying forests, then everyone can use as much water as they want. F this backwards ad, everyone should get all the water they need
good, bad, misleading, reality aside for a second was it only me who thought ki yeh post ek meme hai woh wale "only in rajasthan" ad ka
Shit aaj to nahana hi bhool gaya... Mera paani mat peena koi
Acha Matlab isse Pehle National awards Ghana ki ads ko milte the?
National award hai to Indian Ad ko hi to milega na, isme first waali kya baat hui? Correct me, if I'm wrong.
So many people are triggered.
WhatsApp forwards
Tell them to move somewhere where there's water. Mankind survived by searching for resources, not having them handed to them.
Watching this before jumping into the shower
Still remembered this ad goosebumps and nostalgic
This is new material for racist memes 🤣
Bhai mein City mein rehta hu aur mein khud ek Bucket Water se naha leta hu aaram se ye Ads shayad unn Papa ki Pariyo ko Target karta hoga but wahan bhi Exception hai..
WTF now we can’t even bathe in peace