Bizz chats with Guiscela about wasting water and the differences she sees with water usage in Canada vs Mexico.
Tips to reduce water usage:
- Turn tap off while brushing teeth
- Turn on only the hot water while waiting to heat and start using as soon as it warms up
- Water lawn before sunrise or after sunset
- Change lawn from grass to garden to grow food, or to something that doesn't require watering
- Shop less and/or shop second-hand (manufacturing requires water, too!)
- Use concentrated cleansers and drink flavours
- Check for leaks and running toilets
- Get/make a rain barrel
- Shower less often/shorter showers/skip the hair every other time
- Low flow toilets and shower heads
- Use a broom, not a hose, to clean driveways and sidewalks
- Reuse clean wastewater for plants
Things we talk about:
- Water isn't just used by using water directly, not just the water we see
- Direct uses:
- Drinking
- Cooking
- Water lawn/garden
- Shower/bath
- Indirect uses:
- Agriculture
- Food
- Raise animals
- Materials for building
- Materials for clothing
- Industrial use
- Make pretty much everything we use
- About 1,800 gallons of water are needed to produce the cotton in a pair jeans
- Processing materials such as paper and steel
- Energy
- During a water shortage, often it's the individuals who are restricted, while large corporations can continue using as much as they want to produce non-essential products.
- Glaciers are receding - this is our water reserve!
- Lakes shrinking
- Oil spills can also affect water availability, and this can happen very quickly
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