World Water Day 2012

March 22, 2012: World Water Day 2012

Did you know...

*it takes nearly 2,000 gallons of water to power the average American lifestyle A DAY
*you could save about 13 gallons of water a day just by limiting your daily shower to about 5 minutes
*with modern dishwashers, pre-washing is virtually unnecessary & if you only run the dishwasher when it's full, you can save another 400+ gallons of water a year
*going vegetarian for just ONE meal a month can save about 625 gallons of water a year because of the incredible amount of resources that are required to produce even one pound of meat (it only takes about 11 gallons of water to produce one vegetarian meal in comparison)
*World Water Day has been around for nearly 20 years and was started by the U.N.
*everyone has a water footprint, measured in 2 ways: direct (how much you personally use) and indirect (all the water needed to produce what you use)
*it takes around 52 gallons of water to get 1 glass of milk on your table at home

What do you think? How can our world sustain this? Not that we need to all go vegan and abstain from bathing, but...couldn't we all save a gallon or two?

All of the info in this post comes directly from Recyclebank.com (which is a really cool site to poke around on and a great way to earn some free stuff!).