Today is World Water Day... What Will You Do?

[RestoreGore]

http://www.worldwaterday.org/

Today, March 22, is World Water Day. The theme for this year is sanitation. Every 15 seconds another child dies in this world from a waterborne disease due to lack of potable water and proper sanitation. This is the most crucial environmental crisis we face along with the climate crisis, and water shortages in many parts of our world due to lack of infrastructure, mismanagement of resources, and now climate change only lend to this crisis.

Please, take time today to do something to take action to save water and call for clean water for the children of our world. I will be sending letters to my Senators today and also sending a message to all of the presidential candidates to stand up for water and to make its conservation and availability and sanitation part of their environmental platforms, and that includes not supporting energy sources that pollute our waterways ( like coal and nuclear.)

Also, take a look at this site: http://www.water.org and consider pledging to give clean water to those in our world who need it. Water is our most precious resource. Water is life.

This is so close to my heart. I will talk about this everyday until people get sick of hearing it. It is the only way to get it out here. The simple truth: without water we die. Without the moral and poltical will to address this crisis as well as the climate crisis we will forever alter this planet for our children and other species, and that is simply not an option.

There is nothing more important than this. Without a planet we have nothing else. My letters are ready to send out and I am hoping to do a video on local water issues as soon as I get more free time. Water is a human right, and all children of this world deserve to live in a world at least having the water they need to survive.

This crisis is thankfully getting more exposure thanks to the UN, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, and others who are spreading the word, and also Al Gore who addressed it in An Inconvenient Truth and has talked about freshwater resources. For years people have been warning that we better start conserving this resource because it is even more precious than oil...and we are now getting closer to that tipping point as well.

We are one with the Earth. What we do to her we do to ourselves. We are seeing that much more with each passing day. What we then do with that knowledge will determine our future.

Thank you

[Mika]

1. Take the test: What is your water footprint?

What is your water footprint?
http://www.h2oconserve.org/home.php?pd=index



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[otohara]

3. Yeah, We're Pretty Darn

good! Thanks for the link.

[pleah]

6. Took the survey. It is not even close to being what we use in water.

It said that we use almost 4,000 gal. a day! Our average bill is 3,000 gal. a MONTH! I have always been very frugal with my water usage.

[Mugu]

8. The test is wacko.

They claim that I use 1,065.83 gallons per day. That means that my water softener would cycle every night, when in reality it cycles no more than once every other week.

Regards, Mugu

[Billy Burnett]

9. The test is roughly estimating your water usage that includes water used to create everything you...

... that you use. Creating the fuels and materials, the consumables, etc etc that Americans don't really consider needing water to produce ship, maintain, etc etc. Vast amounts of water are needed to produce materials for clothing or grow the food we eat, for examples.

It isn't measuring just the water you directly flush, shower with or run through a hose. It's estimating your ancillary water use also.

[Rockholm]

2. Take a shower.

[pansypoo53219]

4. filled 2 buckets with snow to water my plants.

only use rain water or snow water. which my plants love.
african violets will bloom all year in sunny spots.

[Codedonkey]

5. Drink 8 glasses of it?

[Adsos Letter]

7. Enjoy a good book in the tubby...

[alfredo]

10. I put a splash of water in my Bourbon.