Find Out What Your Water Footprint Is And How To Reduce It.

June 5th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Did you know that the average American uses 660,000 gallons of water every year? Compare that to the average Chinese who uses 185,000 gallons, and you can see just how much water we waste vs. how much we actually need to live on. After our stay at the earthship, we are really concentrating on cutting our water use down as much as possible, and to see how big my water footprint is here in our apartment, I went over to Water Footprint and took a look. Even though we have low-flow showerheads, faucet aerators, we drink tap water, we take 4 minute (max) showers, it wasn’t pretty when compared to the rest of the world. I am not sure it’s the most accurate calculator either, but still:

What is your water footprint? Go take a look and see….


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