5 GOOD WAYS TO SAVE WATER

By using water more responsibly, you can help preserve this precious resource for future generations. Just imagine the impact when you and thousands of other people do the same!

Here are 5 good ways to save water:

1. I will install a device to reduce toilet water
Toilet flushes guzzle nearly a third of a home's total water per consumption. A cut-volume device can save 45,000 litres of water per year; the same amount one person will drink over 25 years!

2. I will use both sides of sheets of paper
It takes 10 litres of water to make a sheet of paper. The pulp and paper industry is the third largest water polluter, producing over 100,000 tonnes of toxic refuse each year.

3. I will swap a meat meal for a vegetarian meal
A kilogram of meat requires 5 to 20 times more water than is used to produce a kilogram of cereal.
The average North-American uses 5,000 litres/day to feed itself; with half going to meat production alone.
Eating a hamburger is equal to a two and half hour shower!

4. I will cut back on bottled water
Bottled water can cost up to 10,000 times more than tap water. Every year, around the world, $100 billion is spent on bottled water… Just a quarter of that amount would provide access to safe drinking water to the whole planet!

5. I will use environmentally-friendly hygiene and cleaning products
We still do not know how the majority of the more than 70,000 chemicals used to make hygiene and cleaning products interact with each other in the environment, or their effects on public health.

Everything stars with ONE DROP. One Digg. Here's your chance to start a ripple effect.

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