Resource management and bathroom 2.0

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Important resource as healthy nourishment, fresh and clean water, building material as wood and steel or textile for clothes push to dangerous limits of extreme utilization and unsustainability of the earth. The more people use commodities extracted from the environment without any balance the more torment and worn-out the Eco-system will become, the ability of the earth to sustain avarice, selfish and plunder  behavior of the people is finite. Maybe the natural growth, of human population, rising economy or uprising consumption of electricity, it is necessary to step on the next level of evolution but since the planet earth grow with unnoticeable ratio of 1 cm per 100 years[1] it is irrational to justify further expansion neither humans nor financial sector. Once productive, fertile and organic soil humus become fatigued by unsaturated thirst of people to extract more commodities using various chemical pesticides and synthesized fertilizers as consequence severe erosion as well lake, river or underground water pollution which in turn cause health problem and degradation of natural sensible ambiance. The nature is on the brink to cover up and provide permanent increasing consumption of disastrous human impact and destructive resource management, current environmental footprint ultimately share the sentiment of instability and aggravation in addition obvious signs of mass extinction in animal realm threaten human existence to follow after. The way people use resources today creates sizable and verifiable confirmation that planet can't meet any further demands of capricious and spoiled behavior, as for year 2019 on 29th of July people used all the resources the earth can provide in one year, and the year before in 2018 that critical mark was reached on 8th August. Earth's overshoot day in 2020 will be again an irritating alarm, snoozed every single year since 1973[2], alarm that attempted to catch distracted of consumption attention of the humans to take proper measures and act accordingly a civilisation committed to take care not only about themselves but about the entire planet and more important to sustain a clean and prosperous future for everyone.

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People's profligate use of resources is outrageous and scandalos, consuming far beyond they basic needs or moderate viable living, one factor that makes overuse happen is the handy convenience of modern world, available clean washing and shower water directly in our bathrooms, fresh drinking water in the tap of the kitchen, fecal matter disposal directly in restrooms, garbage and waste discharge into trash containers just in front of the house, dozens of restaurants and food stores in less than 5 minutes walk radius filled up to the ceiling with aliments from every corner of the world but in the most lazy days there is also a joker and by one gentle touch on the screen people get the meal directly to door without any struggle, also bright light in the night, heat and electric power is ready to serve us simply by turning the switch.

   Abundance of effortless consumption depreciate circumstances of hard work and true merit which stay behind such precious resources in comparison with undeveloped countries or in the past where no running water for shower or drinking was accessible close to the living place, no electricity light in the night, WC and waste are dump behind the house or on the streets, food is on the field or far away at the market and the only power used were animal and human brute force. Scarcity and absence of resources are conditions for appreciation of the real values that a thing possesses, no one waste the food today if tomorrow is uncertain and probably will not be another meal, water is counted in drops and is used with highly accuracy for daily use. Another factor beside convenient and accessibility for excessive consumption are the public as well to be blamed for restless usage in the modern time although the origin of prosperous sales could be traced to ideology of constant consumption and never ending growth of capitalism and its vulpine, persistent and omnipresent child, advertisement. Precise targeting and unconscious manipulation of commercials have the ability to trigger buying buttons of individuals in form of sentiments and emotions or feeling of necessity and desire that have to be fulfilled in the personalized and custom-built emptiness created by echoing advertisement in the labyrinth of mind.

Bathroom 2.0

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Modern cities are built on top of a complex network system that supply urban towns with electricity, drinking water, divert and eliminating drain or sewage which are not efficient enough in the current model of a centralized distribution center either it is water treatment plant or electric power station. Outdated infrastructure falling apart due to old, defective, rusted or poorly maintained pipes which suffering immense technical breakdown and economical shortages, recommendations to the public from watchful and blatant organisations to save water is very appreciative but it seems that evident problem is not addressed in conformity with the proportion of outcome it produces because the main reason of water loss is caused by nonchalant companies that waste more than 20% of water before it even reaches homes in uncounted leakages along the delivery network. Losing every 5th part of water it is another redundant cost and pressure on every part of the chain in developed places like UK but loses could be up to 50% in places like Pakistan, Indonesia or Bangladesh[3][4], the numbers are outrageous in a world where water sources become less and less attainable. To fix old and broken infrastructure is yelling costly and would require even more financial support to operate and maintain in workable mode the crossing labyrinth of pipes, obvious that such structure of managing delivering resources from point A to point B fail to sustain ever growing cities. Considering to set aside old impractical system to uphold sustainable level of resource management and upgrading the system with new and at the same time old approach of a closed local circuit not only for drinking water but also for treatment of sewage water a similar system should be initiated. As an outstanding and splendid working design is ISS (International Space Station), a closed system that reuse every drop of water even urine is filtered and reused uncounted times for drinking or other necessities and flush toilet is unthinkable luxury for an environment where the single source for resupplying water is 408 km down on earth. Bathroom water management must to be fundamentally redesigned in order to save and reuse the water again and again unlimited times thus creating a closed scheme of a circular system and reducing water consumption probably by 90% which mean 90% less water taken from the river or lake, 90% less energy for processing drinking water at treatment plant, 90% less energy for cleaning sewage water, 90% less impact on natural habitat and a major decrease on ecological footprint to rebalance the ecosystem. In addition collecting the rainwater that is relatively clean and with minimal adjustments could be used as drinking water and for covering the losses from closed loop system as well unloading or eliminating the drain system entirely. Such ideas of circular systems of reusing the same water in an endless loop circulation in space and on the earth is not new and were widely used since 1986[5] on the orbit as well as on earth in the green houses that reduce water needs by 90%.

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Taking the course of decentralized systems will bring enormous saving on long term and reliability and security in network against unpredictable black offs, incorporating multi-functionality and transforming the house not only in protected from the weather living but also into integrated electricity generator and conservation energy battery, a system that is completely independent from the grid and provides its own energy for multi family house which cost only 10% more compared with the price of the same size traditional house[6].

   To reverse the negative effects on the environment it is necessary to educate policy makers that are rushing into the wall of recession with their idealistic perfectionism mentality when economy can and must grow without interruption to infinite thus intentional avoiding the fact that every action has a reaction, maybe someone believe in wonders and hope that by miraculous event all the problems of humanity will pass away but the truth is rather different in the physical world which require physical concrete measure to accomplish a planned goal. Mobilizing innovative strategies for solving current disintegration of vulnerable climate should be on the daily agenda not only politician but also of the public to tackle inconsistency and irrationality of present resource management attitudes.

Langkawi, Malaysia 27 | January , 2020

Source

1. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20110816.html - NASA Research Confirms it’s a Small World, After All

2. https://www.footprintnetwork.org/2018/07/23/earth-overshoot-day-2018-is-august-1-the-earliest-date-since-ecological-overshoot-started-in-the-early-1970s-2/ -Earth Overshoot Day 2018 is August 1

3. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/11/water-companies-losing-vast-amounts-through-leakage-raising-drought-fears - Water companies losing vast amounts through leakage, as drought fears rise
4. http://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2012/09/12/too-much-water-lost-urban-leaks - Too much water lost to urban leaks

5. https://houseofswitzerland.org/headlines/house-provides-its-own-energy - The house that provides its own energy
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir - Mir

Pictures and photos

1. https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/infographics/ - Infographics

2. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grocers-innovators-work-to-save-31b-in-food-from-being-trashed-in-canada-each-year-1.4898285 - Grocers, innovators work to save $31B in food from being trashed in Canada each year

3. http://www.investinginwater.org/Save+Water/Black-water-sewage-treatment/989 - Black-water (sewage) treatment
4. https://www.alleghenyfront.org/allegheny-county-eyes-code-update-for-home-gray-water-systems/ - Allegheny county eyes code update for home gray water system