Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth, while worthwhile, is literally a drop in the bucket compared to other ways we waste water.
The best way to conserve water is not to waste food and to eat meat sparingly.
According to the United Nations, agriculture accounts for 70 percent of all water consumption worldwide, compared to 20 percent for industry and 10 percent for domestic use.
We waste up to half of all food produced.
In industrialized nations, however, industries consume more than half of the water available for human use.
According to the International Bottled Water Association, North American companies use 1.39 liters to make one liter of bottled water.
Basically anything we waste is a waste of water and energy.
An estimated 5,000 children die every day from diarrhea, or one every 17 seconds.
We are fortunate to have clean, reliable sources of drinking water, and we shouldn’t take them for granted.
If we stop to think about it, we may start to treat it that way, drought or no.