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I’m pleased to announce that we’ve chosen a winner at random for the Taking on Water Challenge! Rebecca Rubin will receive an autographed copy of Taking on Water: How One Water Expert Challenged Her Inner Hypocrite, Reduced Her Water Footprint (Without Sacrificing a Toasty Shower), and Found [...] This week we are concluding the Taking on Water Challenge! During the month of February, contest participants undertook a new action each week to reduce their water footprints, saving up to 6,054 gallons of water. This week we are asking that you please let us know how this challenge changed the way [...] The average home in the U.S. uses more than 144,000 gallons of water each year, 70 percent of which is used inside. Faucets account for approximately 16 percent of indoor water use, or more than 15,000 gallons of water. Even a small, undetected leak in a faucet can add up to big water losses. [...] Water is the new oil, right? Not only do we each directly consume water every day for drinking, cooking, bathing, cleaning and tending our lawns, we also use water indirectly, as water “embedded” in the products and services we buy. Thus, in the same way we each have a carbon footprint we [...] Trends in Water Use in the United States, 1950 to 2005 (http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/wateruse-trends.html This is my second guest blog post for Weather Underground, where I’ll be posting a series on the global water crisis over the next several weeks. Weather Underground is the first internet weather service, committed to delivering the most reliable, accurate [...] Freshwater Magazine It’s All in the Flow: Water Quality Starts with Water Quantity. by Wendy Pabich What’s a river without water? Water is to a river like blood is to our veins. Water transports sustenance — nutrients, energy and oxygen — and flushes out toxins. Sufficient flow keeps water temperatures [...] by Wendy J. Pabich “We all know that available, clean freshwater is becoming increasing scarce. This is a problem for people, ecosystems, businesses, and communities. For women around the globe, water stress is especially problematic. Women collectively spend hundreds of millions of hours each day gathering water for domestic use. Girls often [...] In this country, on average, we each use 99 gallons of water per day directly in our homes for cooking, cleaning, bathing, and watering our gardens and yards. Yet, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Our real water use comes in the way of water embedded in the food, clothing, energy, [...] Check out this great graphic by the Ink Factory to illustrate Water: The Ripple Effect a panel I participated in at Chicago Ideas Week 2012—a fabulous weeklong event populated by innovative, creative thinkers. If you’re looking for inspiration, be sure to attend next year!
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Water is getting scarce. This year has brought extreme drought, low snow packs, and record low stream flows in a number of river systems. We see Las Vegas waging water war with the open ranch lands to the north, Atlanta in protracted battles with downstream states over its primary water supply at [...] |
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