Since I live out in the "country" in upstate NY, my water is supplied via Mother Earth - we have a shallow well (14 feet deep) that tends to go dry every June or July depending on the weather. Since we are getting our pool installed today, I will be making several trips to our local fire department to fill up a 210 gallon tank that my husband keeps in the back of his pick-up truck. The pool holds 13,000 gallons... hmmm that's 200 divided by 13,000... gulp - 65 loads of water!!! I'm not sure which I feel worse about - the huge amount of water I am going to be using for nothing other than shear pleasure OR the gas I'll be guzzling trekking the 8 miles up and back from the fire department.
So in order to "offset" my water consumption and the gas I'll be "wasting" today, I've decided to calculate my water footprint at waterfootprint.org (btw - it's 1455 cubic meters per year) The average individual water footprint is 1243 cubic meters per year. Of course for the US is 2483 cubic meters per year (go figure). I don't think I'm doing too bad as far as my water footprint until now - most of the ways to offset your water footprint deal with reducing your irrigation and use of sprinkler systems- uhhh my what? Rain - that's the water for my lawn and garden(LOL). We already use the "let it mellow" concept for the bathroom, we turn off the water while brushing our teeth, and take shorter showers than the average person... What's your water footprint? and what are the ways that you reduce your water usage? If you have some good ideas - let me know!!!
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