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Sustainability In Our Own Backyard

Sustainability In Our Own Backyard. Personal Use of Water. Everybody in some way uses water everyday. Whether they drink it, bath or clean with it, or maybe cook with it. Some people use very little some way to much. Were going to try and tell how to use just the perfect amount.

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Sustainability In Our Own Backyard

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  1. Sustainability In Our Own Backyard

  2. Personal Use of Water Everybody in some way uses water everyday. Whether they drink it, bath or clean with it, or maybe cook with it. Some people use very little some way to much. Were going to try and tell how to use just the perfect amount.

  3. What We Use Water For Cooking Cleaning Bathing Drinking Laundry Toilets Water games Water guns Lawn watering Farming Businesses Industry Manufacturing THE BASICS Enjoyment Livelyhood

  4. How to Reduce Personal Usage of Water • Some of the ways we can reduce the use of water are • 1)Install Low Flow toilets in our houses- Because you can save Money, Hydro and other things to help out with the environment. • Make sure we shut of taps and get water efficient taps and shower heads • Attend recreation opportunities on local lakes and rivers, and learn about the wildlife they support. It will help you understand what we could happen if we don’t manage our water.

  5. Water Averages In a 4 person household the average amount of water is 400 gallons which equals 1514.164712 litres a day. Per a year each person uses 32,120 gallons and 121734.8 litres a year.

  6. Water Efficient appliances When you buy water saving appliances it may cost lots, but it also will save you money. By not using as much water you will save money on your water bill. By doing this the appliances will pay for them selves. Here are some water saving appliances.

  7. Personal ways of saving water Tightly turn off taps when your done using them. Turn off taps while brushing teeth. Put water the fridge rather than running water to get it cold. Don’t run water just to get it to a certain temperature.

  8. We should conserve water because we are taking fresh water from our ecosystems when we could use salt water for toilets because we don’t need to waste fresh water for something that we can use salt water for

  9. Sources http://askville.amazon.com/water-average-household-consume/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=230193 http://www.saudia-online.com/conversion%20Table.htm http://www.csgnetwork.com/waterusagecalc.html http://tomdplant.com/houstonrealestateblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Tom-Plant-Low-Flow-Toilet.jpg http://common1.csnimages.com/lf/1/hash/820/1932118/1/Commercial+Single+Function+Low-Flow+Shower+Head+in+Chrome.jpg\ http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/93434525.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=6C4008C0FD9EB5A55E4227D91313B13D8572C979FC384EED19581F762063A964 Picture of water fountain on first slide taken by Drake Carvil at Thomas Greenway Middle School

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