Did you know?
- By switching to compact fluorescent lights, using fans instead of air conditioners, shortening showers, fixing leaky faucets, washing clothes in cold water, hanging a couple of loads of clothes on the line, eliminating energy sneakers, air-drying dishes, and installing motion detectors indoors and out, you can save up to an estimated $975 a year.
- 40% of America's rivers are too polluted for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life.
- Even worse are America's lakes—46% are too polluted for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life.
- Two-thirds of US estuaries and bays are either moderately or severely degraded from eutrophication (nitrogen and phosphorus pollution).
- Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted.
- The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day.
- The United States uses nearly 80 percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power.
- The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.
- 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease
- Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.
- It takes over 11,000 litres of water to produce a pound of coffee.
- It takes about 300 litres of water to make the paper for just one Sunday newspaper.
- The average dishwasher uses over 100 litres per cycle.
