How many gallons of water do you need to make wudu (ablution)?! Well according to many Muslims who do not live in water deprived areas, the answer seems to be "a lot!". But my recent trip to Fez in Morocco proved otherwise.

In every mosque, there was either a water fountain or a pond, so you'd think that people waste water when it comes to wudu. Quite the contrary, in every masjid I've been, next to each of these water sources were small buckets. Each person filled up one bucket, then sat on the side and performed the ablution.

I could not believe that I could do an entire ablution with such small quantity of water, even more amazing at an info I received of ablution done in Madagascar in a small cup!!!! Goes to show how much water we waste daily just by doing wudu.

Here's a picture from my phone of a small mosque's ablution area with one of the buckets (apologies for the low resolution):

Amazing. This idea definitely needs to spread across the Muslim world, we will save so much water and actually contribute positively to maintaining this blessing of Allah, and in fact follow the tradition of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) who told us not to waste water even if we're next to a running river!!