Eco Watch
In honor of World Water Day on March 22, Surfrider Foundation launched Every Drop Counts campaign. The nonprofit says that if 25,000 people take the pledge to reduce the amount of water they use each day and skip their shower on World Water Day, nearly one million gallons of water will be saved...
North American faucet brand Moen found that the average showers last about 13 minutes, but a good chunk of consumers (37 percent) want to conserve water. A recent report from Environment America found that more and more Americans “are concerned with the pollution and quality of our waterways more than any other environmental issue.”
Besides shorter showers, Surfrider also suggests we can save water by turning off the tap while brushing your teeth (it saves 300 gallons of water per month), fixing leaky pipes on your property (which can waste up to five gallons of water per day), or redirecting rain gutters and downspouts to irrigate your yard.
1 comment:
Stopping fracking and agribusiness would lay those near-nominal personal water savings in the shade.
But we mustn't talk about that.
(I adopted several German habits, working over there through the '60s, one of which is that I shower only once a week, unless going somewhere special. Since I wasn't a manual laborer, I didn't have much problem with stinky perspiration, so like the Germans I just washcloth'd the pits and pubes as needed between showers)
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