Feeling excessively clean
The following statistics caught my attention this weekend:
- The World Health Organization says a person needs 50 liters of water each day to meet basic human needs.
- The average person in the U.S. uses 300 to 378 liters per day.
If I had a little pie chart of my own use, I'm guessing the shower would account for the biggest slice. I do love a steamy shower in the winter! The kitchen sink and the toilet are probably next, except on laundry days. I wonder how many other uses would be in that chart. And I wonder just how much bigger the shower slice would be. I wonder how egregiously clean I am.
Labels: water, world hunger
posted by Nancy Michaelis |
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Handy stats from WATER, a cool little "green guide" by Jon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert, available from Alternatives for Simple Living (www.SimpleLiving.org):
5-minute shower=10 gallons
5-minute power shower=20 gallons
Bath=40 gallons
One toliet flush=3 gallons
washing machine=40 gallons (newer models use 27 gallons)
dishwasher=10 gallons (not counting the water you run while rinsing before or re-washing after)
Ninety-five percent of the water delivered to our homes goes downs the drain; only three percent is actually used for drinking.
Yep, we're excessively clean.
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