[2014] Ashley Macdonald: save our water project

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-Soaking your dishes before you wash them- We’d be lying if we said that we didn’t enjoy a nice long shower every now and again, but if you take lengthy showers every day, you could be wasting from 5 to 7 gallons of water a minute-take some time to if its yellow let it mellow and if its brown let it go down-Don’t leave your faucet running whenever you brush your teeth or soap your hands.

6. On average, women in Africa and Asia have to walk 3.7 miles to collect water. 7. Half the world’s schools do not have access to clean water, nor adequate sanitation. 8. It takes about 300 litres of water to make the paper for just one Sunday newspaper. 9. A five minute shower in an American household will use more water than a person living in a developing world slum will use in a whole day. 10. Global sales of bottled water account for over $60-$80 billion each year.

save our water

1. About 95 percent of the water entering our homes goes down the drain. 2 .Older toilets can use 3 gallons of clean water with every flush, while new toilets use as little as 1 gallon. 3. Leaky faucets that drip at the rate of one drop per second can waste up to 2,700 gallons of water each year. 4. Some experts estimate that more than 50 percent of landscape water use goes to waste due to evaporation or runoff caused by over-watering. 5. Over a quarter of all the clean, drinkable water you use in your home is used to flush the toilets

why waste, when you can save!

by: ashley and katherin