Provisioning Water In Ecovillage Recycling Water And Provisioning In Extreme Condition

The word ecovillage first appeared during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in 1992. Following the Brundtland report of the world environment commission board produced in 1987, stating alarming facts like global warming, scarcity of water, living species and the increase of poverty in the world, the leaders of 178 countries gathered in Rio to discuss the future of the planet.―Ecovillage‖is a combination of the terms ecology and village. It joins the wave of models of micro-society projects such as co-habitation or intentional communities. An ecovillage having a prospect of self-sufficiency variable from one project to another and where the priority is to re-give more balanced place to Man in harmony with his environment in a respect of present ecosystems. The basic principle is not to take from the Earth more than what we can give back.However, all human activities are the same everywhere. Man needs to consume essential resources like water to live. Water is one of the most important elements on the Earth. It is also necessary to preserve ecosystems. But water is a limited resource. In fact, 72 % of the surface of the Earth is water, but 97 % of this water is salted, 2 % of it locked away in icecaps. Hence only a small percentage of it left for crop irrigation and enable humanity to live. Water is one of the great issues of the 21st century, beginning to disappear little by little in some parts of the planet.Ecovillages have two main goals, in one hand to be independent of consumption society, in the other hand to preserve the environment. To have a good water management in ecovillages is one important way to reach these goals. So, to avoid waste of water, recycling and a good consumption management are the best solution.