The Water Cycle & Sustainability

Tree cover the land to retain shed water

How Trees use Water

Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world

Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental
and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use and water
management. This constrains humanity’s ability to protect our planet’s climate and life-
sustaining functions. The substantial body of research we review reveals that forest, water and
energy interactions provide the foundations for carbon storage, for cooling terrestrial surfaces
and for distributing water resources. Forests and trees must be recognized as prime regulators
within the water, energy and carbon cycles.
Rainwater Harvesting Sustainability

Water is considered an everlasting free source that can be acquired naturally. Demand for processed
supply water is growing higher due to an increasing population. Sustainable use of water could maintain a
balance between its demand and supply. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the most traditional and
sustainable method, which could be easily used for potable and nonpotable purposes both in residential
and commercial buildings.
Benefits of Harvesting Rainwater
Gray water and Sustainability

Greywater considers being a highly reclaimable water source particularly important for water-
stressed nations. In this work, heterogeneous photocatalysis using artificial and solar
illumination has been applied for the mineralization of simulated light greywater (effluents from
dishwashers and kitchen sinks were excluded from the study).