So you work at home or in a small office? Unless you want your children to pay-per-flush and shower...and when water becomes more valuable than oil at least u can say you did your part.
The Global Water Crisis:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/755497.stm
Do your part for water conservation and only flush the toilet after youve pissed a few times.
<b>Household Water Use</b>
- Toilet: 40% of daily water use
- Bath and shower: 32% of daily water use
- Laundry: 14% of daily water use
- Dishwashing: 6% of daily water use
- Cooking and drinking: 5% of daily water use
- Bathroom sink: 3% of daily water use
- Three to 6 gallons of water are used for each toilet flush.
- Flush only when necessary. Don't use the toilet to dispose of cigarette butts or other trash. Every toilet flush is equivalent to 80 glasses of drinking water.
- Repair leaks. To determine if your toilet is leaking, add food coloring to the toilet tank water, and check the bowl in 15 minutes. If the water in the bowl is colored, you probably have a leak.
- Place a brick in your toilet tank.
Water facts and figures
International statistics
1.1 billion
The estimated number of people worldwide who lack access to clean drinking water.
2.4 billion
The estimated number of people worldwide who lack access to sanitation. Most are in Africa and Asia.
2 billion
The estimated number of people who depend on groundwater worldwide (about one-third of the world's population). Countries around the world face rapidly depleting groundwater resources, including parts of India, China, West Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the former Soviet Union and the western United States.
About 80
The number of countries that had experienced serious water shortages by the mid 1990s. This makes up about 40 per cent of the world's population.
One-third
The proportion of the global population who live in countries with moderate-to-high water stress. Water stress occurs when water consumption exceeds 10 per cent of renewable freshwater resources.
West Asia faces the severest threat. More than 90 per cent of the population in the region lives under severe water stress.
Two-thirds
The proportion of the global population that is expected to be living in water stressed conditions in less than 25 years.
40%
The increase in global water use expected by 2020.
$30 billion
The projected cost per year of bringing poor people universal access to water by 2015.