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WATER SUSTAINABILITY

WATER SUSTAINABILITY. AMELIA, MATT, MICAH, SABINE AND TREVOR. FACTS AND FIGURES. Standard shower heads use 2.5 gallons per minute. I f Americans implemented more efficient water faucets, they could save 500 gallons a year in every household.

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WATER SUSTAINABILITY

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  1. WATERSUSTAINABILITY AMELIA, MATT, MICAH, SABINE AND TREVOR

  2. FACTS AND FIGURES • Standard shower heads use 2.5 gallons per minute. • If Americans implemented more efficient water faucets, they could save 500 gallons a year in every household. • If all inefficient toilets in US homes were converted to WaterSense models, America could save more than 640 billion gallons of water a year. • Each American uses an average of 100 gallons of water a day

  3. FACTS AND FIGURES • It takes 3 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water • Running the tap for 2-3 minutes is equal to 3-5 gallons of water • Only 1 percent of the worlds freshwater is available for use • In 2000, 408 billion gallons of water were used per day in the US alone • The average American’s daily shower uses more water than a person in a developing country would use for an entire day

  4. Pullman • We pull water from the Grande Ronde aquifer • This aquifer serves  as the sole source of drinking water for Pullman and Moscow •  For several decades the water levels in the Grande Ronde Aquifer have been in decline – up to 3 feet per year

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