waters finite but our demands for it or
not
and so in places where we have rivers
running dry what’s happening is our
demands are bumping up against those
limits of the finite supply and so our
use of water for agriculture for food
production for growing cities and
industries is beginning to really max
out that water supply and so it shows up
in the form of groundwater being over
pumped rivers running dry and just
generally finding that we’re we’re sort
of running out of the water we need a
lot of people only think about water
when it comes out of their tap but in
fact our lifestyles require a lot of
water if we’re an average American it
takes about 2,000 gallons of water a day
to keep our lifestyles afloat and most
of that is in our diet so we can become
more conscious about not wasting food
because every time we waste food we’re
wasting water if we want to we can be
more conscious about the kinds of foods
we eat eating more healthily but also
food that’s maybe a bit less thirsty in
terms of the amount of water it takes to
produce so I think there are a lot of
ways just becoming a more conscious
consumer we can make a difference
you know part of the reason we’re in
this mess in a way with water is that
there are so many billions of people now
all needing to eat but if each of us
makes decisions we can begin to scale
that back so if you think about our
water footprint you know about half of
it is our diet 1/3 of it is our use of
energy all of these daily things that we
do involve water and sometimes quite a
lot you know it can take 700 gallons of
water just to make one cotton t-shirt
the good news is there are a lot of
things we can do to use water more
efficiently to conserve it which would
open up opportunities to restore some
water back to nature for example in
agriculture you know there are
efficiency technologies combined with
information technologies like sensors
that help us understand how much water
we really need to use that would allow
us to do that get smarter about how we
use that water and and then again return
some to the natural environment
you
not
and so in places where we have rivers
running dry what’s happening is our
demands are bumping up against those
limits of the finite supply and so our
use of water for agriculture for food
production for growing cities and
industries is beginning to really max
out that water supply and so it shows up
in the form of groundwater being over
pumped rivers running dry and just
generally finding that we’re we’re sort
of running out of the water we need a
lot of people only think about water
when it comes out of their tap but in
fact our lifestyles require a lot of
water if we’re an average American it
takes about 2,000 gallons of water a day
to keep our lifestyles afloat and most
of that is in our diet so we can become
more conscious about not wasting food
because every time we waste food we’re
wasting water if we want to we can be
more conscious about the kinds of foods
we eat eating more healthily but also
food that’s maybe a bit less thirsty in
terms of the amount of water it takes to
produce so I think there are a lot of
ways just becoming a more conscious
consumer we can make a difference
you know part of the reason we’re in
this mess in a way with water is that
there are so many billions of people now
all needing to eat but if each of us
makes decisions we can begin to scale
that back so if you think about our
water footprint you know about half of
it is our diet 1/3 of it is our use of
energy all of these daily things that we
do involve water and sometimes quite a
lot you know it can take 700 gallons of
water just to make one cotton t-shirt
the good news is there are a lot of
things we can do to use water more
efficiently to conserve it which would
open up opportunities to restore some
water back to nature for example in
agriculture you know there are
efficiency technologies combined with
information technologies like sensors
that help us understand how much water
we really need to use that would allow
us to do that get smarter about how we
use that water and and then again return
some to the natural environment
you
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