I am definitely not a person who watches the amount of water our family uses. We flush after EVERY trip to the bathroom (even if its just yellow) ... take lots of baths (just for fun with bubbles and the jets going) and both of our vehicles are washed daily (sometimes more than once a day).
I am aware of the water shortage in the world ... and also am well aware that ONE person choosing to make a difference, combined with another ONE person choosing to make a difference ... CAN make a change.
But I continue to waste water on a daily basis. Then it started to hit home ::
From a recent email from school ~
Did you know... AES pumps and treats approximately 34 million gallons of water each year? This water is used for human consumption, cooling, and irrigation for campus plants, trees and fields.
Then after reading that, we took a trip to the Science Museum and saw a display on water consumption ::
When we first arrived, I was very troubled (and still am) by the images of people lining up to get water from a tanker truck that had just arrived at the slum.
Every day, when passing through the market near our house, small children carry huge jugs of water from the ONE faucet of water that is centrally located in the market, back to their homes.
Too many people have the attitude that smarter water consumption WON'T change the shortage in the rest of the world ... but something HAS to change.
