In my previous publish, I mentioned about drinking water wastage and inefficient usage of manpower in drinking water management.
But how to manage the system and achieve no wastage of resources and increased efficiency? Wastage happened when we have to throw away the unconsumed drinking water. So wastage can be avoided simply by "not creating" the wastage water. To achieve that we need to change the water system from putting them in pails or buckets or containers... to a direct drinking system using "drinking nipples".
Nipple is available in most shop dealing with agriculture accessories. Each will cost less than RM20.00. It is a very marginal additional cost compared to the advantages we might achieve in the long run. To establish a complete drinking system, of course we need to construct the piping system, connecting from the water tank to distribute it to every pan.
But how to manage the system and achieve no wastage of resources and increased efficiency? Wastage happened when we have to throw away the unconsumed drinking water. So wastage can be avoided simply by "not creating" the wastage water. To achieve that we need to change the water system from putting them in pails or buckets or containers... to a direct drinking system using "drinking nipples".
Nipple is available in most shop dealing with agriculture accessories. Each will cost less than RM20.00. It is a very marginal additional cost compared to the advantages we might achieve in the long run. To establish a complete drinking system, of course we need to construct the piping system, connecting from the water tank to distribute it to every pan.
What is "Zero Wastage Drinking Water 
System". Let's call it ZWDW system.
System". Let's call it ZWDW system.Even if we use nipple, there will be a little bit of water spilled over from the nipple while the goats enjoying the water. Also, there are some naughty goats which like to "play" with the nipples, enjoying the ejected water, washing their face, rubbing their nose etc... Those wastage if we can recycle them into some usage, then we can achieve ZWDW. Of course we should not use it as drinking water again...
The wasted water can also make the wooden floor in the pan (under the nipples) becoming soft. Without proper control, it will cause the floor broken. So we need some kind of water collecter to capture the water, channel it to a reservoir and reuse/recycle them. I used PVC "pipe-reducer" as water collecter. I need to use 6" to 4" plus 4" to 2" plus 2" to 1" reducers to make a complete water collecter. From the collecter the water is channelled via a 1" piping system to a pond next to the farm.
Water in the pond is collected from the rain water, collected from the roof plus ground water plus water from the ZWDW system. These water is then used to water the grass whenever there's no rain.
That's how ZWDW system works. It saves cost, time, efficient and produces healthy goats.
