Water footprint - consumption

[chancy]

Hello Everyone: I was astonished to hear that one almond takes many gallons of water to grow. Here are some more facts that will make you very surprised and hopefully more informed.
chancy

Link:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/do-canadians-waste-water--201855778.html

Some of the article:

Your water footprint

Did you know that a 500 mL bottle of water has a 5.5 litre footprint? The extra five litres is water that’s contaminated to make the bottle from oil, so it can’t be used for anything else. Here's a few more startingly facts:

It takes 3,000 litres of water to grow and process the cotton for a t-shirt
A cup of coffee uses 140 litres of water on its way to your mug
Two pieces of bacon: 300 litres
Two eggs: 400 litres
One kilogram of beef: 11,000 litres of water
One kilogram of cotton: from India: 22,500 litres; from the United States: 8,000 litres
A glass of wine: 110 litres
A 100-gram chocolate bar costs 1700 litres

11 ways you can conserve water

Canadians have adopted many water-saving devices. Low-flow toilets are now in 47 per cent of homes (up from 9 per cent in 1991), and more efficient shower heads are now in 63 per cent.

Low-flow toilets (or put a displacement device in the tank of an older model)
Rainwater barrels and cisterns for gardening
Install low-flow shower heads to lower water consumption by up to 65 per cent
Use lawn sprinkler timers (If you must water your lawn)
Choose landscaping that doesn’t require extensive watering
Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth, and save about 6 litres/minute
Be lazy, use the dishwasher - it uses less water than washing in the sink
Fill the washing machine and dishwasher to save water and power too
Leave a jug of water in the fridge, and avoid running the tap to wait for the cold water
Fix leaky taps: Health Canada suggests fixing a small drip could save 75 litres/day.
Meatless Monday: A family could save 1.3 million litres of water by choosing a vegetarian meal instead of beef (Stephen Leahy)

How you use water in your home

Toilet flushing 30%

Personal washing - baths and taps 21%

Personal washing - showers 12%

Clothes washing 13%

Washing up 8%

Outdoor 7%

Other 5%

Drinking 4%

Source: waterwise.org.uk

[Matt P]

Good timing on this post! I was just having this conversation with my 19-year-old son. We've had it a few times but he isn't catching on very quickly (or as quickly as I'd like, I guess). He fancies himself an environmentalist, even started a chapter of the Sustainable Oceans Alliance as a freshman in college last year, on top of excellent marks and playing sports. Smart kid but his clothes are dirty after one wear. He'll take a shower every day and occasionally a second. He doesn't turn off lights. He turns the heat too high and the cold too low. He only wants the higher label clothes and won't go to the second hand or thrift stores with me. He gets mad when I explain these things to him. Most of you are probably thinking, "typical teenager," but I just don't accept that. He should be better but he is slowly coming around, I have to admit. My message is always that true environmentalism begins in your own home and your own habits. We love to blame the big polluting corporations but the individual household is still the largest polluter on the planet, if I'm not mistaken. The choices each of us makes in how we live. Chancy's wonderful post is just the start. There are so many other ways to lighten your footprint in your own home.

Matt

[ZooLife]

Spheres representing all of Earth's water, Earth's liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers


The largest sphere represents all of Earth's water. Its diameter is about 860 miles (the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Topeka, Kansas) and has a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (mi3) (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers (km3)). This sphere includes all of the water in the oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/pictures/full-size/global-water-volume-fresh-large.jpg


http://water.usgs.gov/edu/gallery/global-water-volume.html


Thirsty yet?

http://universalcarpetus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Got-Water.png

[LesliesFarm]

If you get your information from the cabal, you will think and behave as they wish you to think and behave. I question the accuracy of that illustration. We live on a WATER PLANET. While I appreciate the wise use of water, (as a Certified Permaculturist, I have designed, used and taught others about, water conservation systems) there are alternative views of the care of our water systems. For example, by using a flush toilet, yes even the low flush models, you not only use a great deal of drinking water, you are also contributing to the fouling of water in sewers and septic systems. Holding water stagnant, along with anaerobic activity, creates negative energy. It is similar to locking people up and withholding life's necessities from them. So, water care is not all about volume. It is also about doing harm to a living entity.

Very few people know that water is created inside the Earth. See http://www.primarywaterinstitute.org/ This water engineer has been helping people who are in great need, to drill into primary water. I believe that these are mostly stop gap measures, because planetary restoration will show us the true abundance of water on this planet. Scarcity is a psyop.

Also, over unity, free energy, zero point devices are capable of desalinating sea water without the use of fossil fuel. See http://www.keshefoundation.org/introduction/objectives Mr. Keshe has already given this technology to those in Africa and elsewhere who are in dire need. He has put video classes up on the Internet for anyone who would like to do this work........for themselves or others.

[Selkie]

...Very few people know that water is created inside the Earth. See http://www.primarywaterinstitute.org/ This water engineer has been helping people who are in great need, to drill into primary water. I believe that these are mostly stop gap measures, because planetary restoration will show us the true abundance of water on this planet. Scarcity is a psyop..

(my emphasis)

I said that very thing (that water is created inside the earth) to a group of people a couple of months ago. I never heard of the concept or that website before. It was an idea that popped into my head spontaneously, at the very moment I told them. So thanks very much for that link!

[Lost N Found]

Hello Everyone: I was astonished to hear that one almond takes many gallons of water to grow. Here are some more facts that will make you very surprised and hopefully more informed.
chancy

Link:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/do-canadians-waste-water--201855778.html

Some of the article:

Your water footprint

Did you know that a 500 mL bottle of water has a 5.5 litre footprint? The extra five litres is water that’s contaminated to make the bottle from oil, so it can’t be used for anything else. Here's a few more startingly facts:

It takes 3,000 litres of water to grow and process the cotton for a t-shirt
A cup of coffee uses 140 litres of water on its way to your mug
Two pieces of bacon: 300 litres
Two eggs: 400 litres
One kilogram of beef: 11,000 litres of water
One kilogram of cotton: from India: 22,500 litres; from the United States: 8,000 litres
A glass of wine: 110 litres
A 100-gram chocolate bar costs 1700 litres

11 ways you can conserve water

Canadians have adopted many water-saving devices. Low-flow toilets are now in 47 per cent of homes (up from 9 per cent in 1991), and more efficient shower heads are now in 63 per cent.

Low-flow toilets (or put a displacement device in the tank of an older model)
Rainwater barrels and cisterns for gardening
Install low-flow shower heads to lower water consumption by up to 65 per cent
Use lawn sprinkler timers (If you must water your lawn)
Choose landscaping that doesn’t require extensive watering
Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth, and save about 6 litres/minute
Be lazy, use the dishwasher - it uses less water than washing in the sink
Fill the washing machine and dishwasher to save water and power too
Leave a jug of water in the fridge, and avoid running the tap to wait for the cold water
Fix leaky taps: Health Canada suggests fixing a small drip could save 75 litres/day.
Meatless Monday: A family could save 1.3 million litres of water by choosing a vegetarian meal instead of beef (Stephen Leahy)

How you use water in your home

Toilet flushing 30%

Personal washing - baths and taps 21%

Personal washing - showers 12%

Clothes washing 13%

Washing up 8%

Outdoor 7%

Other 5%

Drinking 4%

Source: waterwise.org.uk

Chancy, very good Thread/post, I find it very interesting that we all are thinking down the road about conservation which I have always thought a very good idea, however there is some other info that does need to be taken into consideration. First on my mind is Agenda 21 and what the criminal organization called The United Nations has planned for us and the world. We all have to take a long hard close look at what nasty nasty organizations are doing and how they have and are lieing to us about the water situatiion on this planet. One thing that I tend to believe is that we are not ever going to run out of water and it is being used to control the masses. I am going to post here and create another post below for all to at least see some other sides to this idea of the UN causing us to buy their crap. Please do not get me wrong, I am just presenting some other stuff to consider at this point. So here is the first and it may not be right I do not totally know at this point but I am still researching.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK_y4xuzIJs

[Lost N Found]

And here is the second post to consider and please everyone, do more research on this. I see all here have looked into the thread and do have a good idea or ideas. I really thank you all for doing what you do. Here is the second thingy.

Well I can't get the vid here for you but I can give you the web site again and it is not the only one that is putting this info out so here is that site

www.stopthecrime.net you can link into this and find some much it is incredible. Thanks again

[Atlas]

In the course of a lifetime, a human being will consume or use 43,371 cans of soda:
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/ht_0004_ngc_footprint_cans_ssh.jpg
http://musingforamusement.blogspot.com/2008/05/human-footprint.html
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https://maryjoydelapieza.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/human_footprint.jpg