Thursday, October 14, 2010

    What's Your Water Footprint?


    Did you know how significantly we over consume water in industrialized countries?

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    It takes 24 liters of water to produce one hamburger. That means it would take over 19.9 billion liters of water to make just one hamburger for every person in Europe. More Info from TheWaterProject.org »

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    The shiny new iPhone in your pocket requires half a liter of water to charge. That may not seem like much, but with over 80 million active iPhones in the world, that's 40 million liters to charge those alone. More Info from IEEE.org »
    And, ironically, check out this app from VirtualWater.eu to help track your footprint.

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    The blue jeans you may be wearing right now took 6,813 liters of water to produce. More Info from TreeHugger.com »

    All of this is shared with you as part of Blog Action Day 2010 - An effort from Change.org to help rally blogs to make a difference. Check out the video for more information:

    Blog Action Day 2010: Water from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.



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