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Imagine4: Water Day
The average American soaks up about 1,189 gallons of water a day. When I read this fact I thought, Surely I can't use that much water! In order to test myself, I tried the water calculator web site. The calculator asked questions about my life style, then tallied up how much water I use. Once all of my data was imputed, I was shocked to find that on an average day, I use near 1,300 gallons! I realized that without the water calculator, I had no way of knowing how much water I was using. I just assumed that I was more water efficient than the "average American", when it turned out to be the exact opposite. Even now that I know how much water I use, the number is so large it's hard to wrap my mind around it. Then I wondered, what if there was a way to show how much water we use in a day? Thus, my Water Day activity was born!
A community would first get volunteers. They would be given a challenge to collect enough water to supply a person for one day (1,200 gallons). However, they couldn't get the water from the tap, and it would have to be clean, drinkable water. The participants could use water distilling, rain collecting, or any other method. The message would really get through to people if they saw how much water was used in a single day by one person!
The competition would run for a week or so, and by the end the community with the most water would win a rain harvesting system on one of their public buildings. It is possible that some of the participates could also get minor tax deductions for a month. The communities would take pictures of the amount of water their collected and could show them on a website designed for the project. This way, even communities who didn't participate would be able to benefit from the experience. The Water Day project would be a great way to get people aware of the amount of water we wastefully consume each and every day. Hopefully, each year more people would join and it could become a yearly tradition.
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Comment by Parker Schultz on April 10, 2010 at 2:58pm
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Please, feel free to add comments! I could use all kinds of ideas to add to my Water Day Project.
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