What's Your Water Footprint?
Even as the greenest among us cut our showers short and let our toilets go yellow, we may be blissfully unaware that our household water use accounts for only 6 percent of the water that we consume. The other 94 percent comes from the products we buy, everything from almonds and tomatoes to blue jeans and microchips. (See "Big Gulp.") The average person in the developed world drinks a gallon of water each day but "eats" another 800 gallons. And as ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Mother Jones, Digg
I really think this article is one of the most important about water, because if urban and suburban inhabitants really concentrated on not wasting water, if would save so much and the environment would be a whole different place. Water shortages affect the environment and in turn we ourselves are affected by the environment.