How can you conserve water?
We can save water by taking shorter showers and install low flow shower heads.
By taking shorter showers we use less water. Did you know that an average 15-minute shower can take up to 25 gallons of water! Also By installing low-flow shower heads you can save tons of water and save money on your water bill. My family installed a low-flow toilet and boy is it a lot quieter when you flush. Simple steps like this can create a cleaner and healthier earth for everyone. |
Eat less meat
Processed food is a big part of water waste. Did you know that one hamburger can take up to 4,000-18,000 gallons of water to make! That is insane right! When you eat less of this processed food you can save the planet. An alternative to these processed food is going vegetarian. Did you know that a Veggie burger only uses 800 gallons to make a veggie burger?. You can also grow your own garden and eat fresh produce from there. |
Only use water when you need it
People use water every day for their daily life. Some of this water we need is necessary like bathing or drinking or boiling water. But there are also unnecessary things that people use water like slip and slides or leaving the hose on when you get something to come back. These things are unnecessary and can be prevented. Little things like this can go a long way. |
Virtual water
Did you know that 90% of the water that you waste is hidden water! One thing that you may not know wastes water is shoes! As you know shoes can be fancy and expensive but they waste over 2,257 gallons of water. Think about how many pairs of shoes you have? Shoes are not the only thing that wastes hidden water, clothes and furniture are some of the largest wastes of water and we aren’t even aware of it! Imagine how much water you are wasting just because of the clothes you have. |
To see how much water you really use on a daily basics click on the button bellow.
Why is this important to you?
A shocking 30 gallons of water is wasted by each person every day! That adds up quickly, each American uses 10,950 gallons a year. Freshwater is being wasted due to our misuse of water, for example, wasted food is one of the biggest consumers of water. In the US, Americans throw away uneaten food, wasting 40% of the food that we buy, that wasted 25% of freshwater. But not just food wastes water, all most everything we buy has water in it somehow! This is called virtual water! You know that we waste 30 gallons of water a day, right. but that is only the water you can see and not virtual water! These problems will prevent our communities from prospering. If we don't start saving water then we will run out of this special resource leading to us not being able to survive. Without freshwater, we can’t plant crops so we can’t feed livestock will collapse entire ecosystems.
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The average American usage per year
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