Visit the Water Use it Wisely website for a list of 100 ways to conserve water. And then come up with another idea of your own!
Why Save Water?
• About 65% of indoor home water use occurs in our bathrooms. Toilets are the single greatest water user.
• UNESCO has predicted that by 2020 water shortage will be a serious worldwide problem.
• Did you know that in the United States, the average person uses 80-100 gallons of fresh water a day? (source: USGS)
• In your house check for leaks from faucets and pipes; even the smallest drip can waste as much as 75 liters a day (about 20 gallons).
• Almost 80% of the earth's surface is covered in water. Of this, 97% is salt water, 2% is glacial ice. That leaves less than 1% as fresh water for us to use.
• The human body is about 70% water; we cannot survive more than a week without water.
• A mere 10% of our home water supply is used in the kitchen and as drinking water.
• Indoor water use peaks twice a day year-round, in the mornings and evenings.
• The biggest peaks during the year occur in the summer, when about half to three quarters of all municipally treated water is sprayed onto lawns.
• As a community grows, the water use grows even faster because the diversity of water uses increases with size.
Source: Environment Canada (via Brac Systems website)
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Friday, February 20, 2009
100 Ways to Save Water
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2 comments:
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Thanks for you comment. Sorry we were a bit slow in getting it published (oops). We encourage people to maintain fixtures and equipment so that they will last longer - and to buy good quality parts and fixtures to begin with - to reduce stuff going to landfills. These are just two of at least a million ways we can all reduce our carbon footprint. We'll add your link to the sidebar. Thanks again!
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