Take Action: Close Your Drain

So... it's a week after Blog Action Day, when I did a post on infographics re: clean water and another on an individual's water footprint.

But I actually had an idea for another post today: Close Your Drain.

Here's the idea - people regularly waste water when they let it run during shaving, brushing teeth, long showers, etc. So what I suggest is this:

1) Whenever possible, close the drain while you do these type of activities.

2) When you're finished, use a bath crayon and mark how high the water is.

3) Work to get that level lower.

Pretty simple, right? Let me know if you give it a try - I will be doing so! Together we can conserve water and have an impact on the future.

What's The Furthest You've Walked For Clean Water?

Visual representations from around the globe (via Google Maps) of just how far African women have to walk each year to find clean water. More info from charity:water

Click on any image for a larger view

And finally, a sad fact about children and access to water:

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.

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.