A Survey of Laboratory Practice on Water Scarcity: Conservation …
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the non-distilled water was always drained instead of reused. The sources of clean
sanitized water resources (from the tap) are being degraded and diminished when
it is drained down as waste. The possible amount of water drained in this case had
previously been disclosed in only one journal back in 2004 (Sharma 2004, 2011).
Ironically, as the issue of global warming is becoming more alarming to
humankind, researchers are searching for sources of water via desalination of groundwater aquifers (Zachos 2017) instead of considering the drained water from the
distillation process as alternatives to recycled water for non-potable usage. Human
awareness on the amount of waste water drained from water distillation may be the
cause of ignorant. In recent years, sustainable development goals (SDGs) have been
widely introduced around the globe. This sustainability idea initiated since 1970s
with the Rio Declaration trigger in June 1992. Among the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), Goal #6 stated “ensure availability and sustainable management
of water and sanitation for all”. It emphasized the importance of water management
in sustaining humankind. Following this, the Green Lab concept was recently introduced aiming to save energy, reduce waste, conserve resources and others (Durrant
2017). However, despite the frequent glimpse of the word “sustainability”, this idea
is still lacking in the people of a developing country like Malaysia, which leads to
inefficient use of the current resources. This phenomenon is vividly witnessed with
the distillation process in many research labs.
Onto study the effect of water distillation and the potential of saving water
resources from this process, this paper explores the laboratory practice on water
scarcity in relation to waste water management from the distillation process. Here,
we carry out an extra step to study the perception of locals on water wastage from
the distillation process as well as the future behavioral trend of the respondents in a
local university toward the water conservation issue.
2 Methodologies
The discharged water which is coming from an outlet of a water distiller can be
regarded as clear from dangerous organisms since it has been boiled. Even though it
may contain a relatively higher concentration of minerals it is clean. The fact that this
discharged water is being drained to the sink is considered a waste. The amount of
water drained daily appears to have been deemed to be negligible since most research
have not recognized its effect on water consumption. In order to alert the researchers
and re-introduce water conservation from the distillation process, experimental work
has been carried out as follows.
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the non-distilled water was always drained instead of reused. The sources of clean
sanitized water resources (from the tap) are being degraded and diminished when
it is drained down as waste. The possible amount of water drained in this case had
previously been disclosed in only one journal back in 2004 (Sharma 2004, 2011).
Ironically, as the issue of global warming is becoming more alarming to
humankind, researchers are searching for sources of water via desalination of groundwater aquifers (Zachos 2017) instead of considering the drained water from the
distillation process as alternatives to recycled water for non-potable usage. Human
awareness on the amount of waste water drained from water distillation may be the
cause of ignorant. In recent years, sustainable development goals (SDGs) have been
widely introduced around the globe. This sustainability idea initiated since 1970s
with the Rio Declaration trigger in June 1992. Among the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), Goal #6 stated “ensure availability and sustainable management
of water and sanitation for all”. It emphasized the importance of water management
in sustaining humankind. Following this, the Green Lab concept was recently introduced aiming to save energy, reduce waste, conserve resources and others (Durrant
2017). However, despite the frequent glimpse of the word “sustainability”, this idea
is still lacking in the people of a developing country like Malaysia, which leads to
inefficient use of the current resources. This phenomenon is vividly witnessed with
the distillation process in many research labs.
Onto study the effect of water distillation and the potential of saving water
resources from this process, this paper explores the laboratory practice on water
scarcity in relation to waste water management from the distillation process. Here,
we carry out an extra step to study the perception of locals on water wastage from
the distillation process as well as the future behavioral trend of the respondents in a
local university toward the water conservation issue.
2 Methodologies
The discharged water which is coming from an outlet of a water distiller can be
regarded as clear from dangerous organisms since it has been boiled. Even though it
may contain a relatively higher concentration of minerals it is clean. The fact that this
discharged water is being drained to the sink is considered a waste. The amount of
water drained daily appears to have been deemed to be negligible since most research
have not recognized its effect on water consumption. In order to alert the researchers
and re-introduce water conservation from the distillation process, experimental work
has been carried out as follows.