STUDY OF REDUCING WASTAGE OF WATER IN HOUSEHOLDS USING FOOT TAP

Abstract

o develop regulating strategies for reduction in consumption of domestic water, more proactive approach is to determine behavior of domestic consumers of water. During analysis, we found that water usage in domestic households consists of water closet, kitchen, bathing, wash-basins and many other minor or major occasional usages. From experimental study we found that water is wasted during cleaning of utensils in sink, washing of hands, trimming of beard, brushing in wash-basin because of continuous running of tap water during all these actions. This wastage happens due to the fact that we perform all these actions by our hands and also operate the tap with our hands. So, if we operate these taps without using our hands we can create breaks in continuous flow of water and water can be used efficiently. By keeping all these requirements in mind, we made an apparatus to operate tap by feet instead of hand and the amount of water save is computed. Results shows that for urban households of Delhi, water can be saved up to 34.78% and sometimes even more than this.