Be mindful of how we use water and be good stewards.
- With small changes, a single household can save up to 47 gallons of water a day.
- It takes approximately 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef.
- It takes 3 liters of water to produce a 1liter bottle of water.
- What we can do
- Install low flow shower heads
- Purchase energy/water efficient appliances
- Install low flow faucets
- Install low profile/water efficient toilets
- Check sprinklers for leaks and broken sprinkler heads. Biggest water savings can come from outdoors.
- With these small changes, a single household can save upwards of 47 gallons of water a day.
- Be mindful to run faucet water only when necessary.
- Take shorter showers.
- Be mindful of long hot showers.
- Using a cool or even a cold water rinse in the shower boosts our metabolism. Lose weight in the shower! Who knew?
- Turn water off while brushing our teeth and washing our faces.
- Be mindful when watering lawns. Better yet, replace lawns with natural, low maintenance ground cover, butterfly/bee gardens or mulch to hold in the water.
- Ask your favorite restaurants to serve water upon request. Not everyone in a party will drink the water.
- One of the best ways to reduce our water consumption is to reduce the amount of meat we eat. Say What??
- It takes approximately 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef.
- It takes approximately 815 gallons of water to produce one pound of chicken.
- It takes approximately 1,630 gallons of water to produce one pound of pork.
- Limiting the number of days in which we consume meat, reduces the amount of meat that will be manufactured, reducing the amount of water used during the manufacturing.
- Reduce bottled water usage.
- Be mindful of the half empty bottles of water that remain after a party.
- Use the leftover water to water house plants or the garden.
- Be mindful of tossing plastic bottles filled with water into the recycling bin or trash.
- It takes 3 liters of water to produce a 1liter bottle of water.
20 Something Finance Provides Us With Some Interesting Data
- 4,787 bottled waters could be filled with tap water for $2.10.
- Every time you buy a bottle of water for $1, you are paying 2,279 times what you would if you filled that same bottle with tap water.
If most of what you drink is bottled water, assuming you drink 64 oz. of water per day, you’d consume a little under three 20 oz. bottles of water per day.
- Those 3 bottles per day would cost you $3/day or $1,095 per year.
- That same 1,095 bottles filled with tap water would cost you $0.48 PER YEAR.
- Another way to look at it is that as soon as you buy your first bottle of water, you’ve already spent double what you would for an ENTIRE YEAR of tap water.
Is bottled water higher quality, better tasting and cleaner than filtered tap water?
- 24% of bottled water sold is either Pepsi’s Aquafina or Coke’s Dasani
- Both are purified municipal water.
- Public water is regulated by the EPA which requires multiple daily tests for bacteria and makes results available to the public.
- Bottled water is regulated by the FDA which only requires weekly testing and does not share its findings with the EPA or the public.