He National Center for the United Kingdom has raised the alert, qualified the current water shortage as a “Incident of national importance”. , Five areas are officially in drought and others Six cross a prolonged period of dry climate After registering The six months until July more arid from 1976.
Although recent storms have given a truce, river flows and reservoir levels They continue to decrease and July remained “the fifth warmer month recorded”. The arrival of a new heat wave in August aggravates pressure on water resources and public supplies.
Recommendations, some curious, to save water at home
Given this scenario, the institution has disseminated a series of domestic methods to reduce consumption. Among the most striking is the Eliminate emails and images that have been on our devices for a long time. Justifies your recommendation claiming that “Data centers require large amounts of water to cool their systems“.
The reality is that Millions of liters of water are consumed every year in the cooling of data centersand reducing this storage, something very important can be achieved. A reveals that a relatively small data center, just 1 MW of powercapable of supplying about 1,000 homes, uses about 26 million liters of water a year to stay in adequate temperature conditions.
Although Having information saved on a server does not generate heat by itselfthe problem arises When millions of people constantly access those filesas with full email, what Forces processors to work tirelessly And, consequently, it increases the need for cooling.
In addition to this solution that has surprised many, the British institution has launched another series of equally everyday recommendations to fight the drought suffered by the United Kingdom:
- Place a Rainwater deposit and take advantage of it in the garden irrigation.
- Repair any leak in the toiletsince a defective cistern can waste between 200 and 400 liters per day.
- Reuse kitchen waterfor example that of washing vegetables, to hydrate your plants.
- Do not water the grass. Even if it gets brown, it will recover its green appearance naturally.
- Keep the closed tap while You brush your teeth or shave.
- Reduce your showers To reduce water consumption.
“We thank citizens for complying with restrictions, where appropriate, to preserve water in these drought conditions. Simple and everyday decisionshow to close the tap or erase ancient emails, also They contribute greatly to the collective effort to reduce demand and help preserve the health of our rivers and wildlife“, says the director of Water of the Environment Agency, Helen Wakeham.
