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water conservation  

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  • Water conservation aims at influencing water utilization in order to achieve more efficient, equitable, and sustainable water consumption levels. It is mainly a tool for on-site and watershed approaches, since it originally focused on conserving water as stored soil moisture and groundwater. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Water Conservation]

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