Reply #1: save our rivers and save water

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do you let the faucet run while you brush your teeth?

while doing the dishes? better to just put a bit in the sink to rinse the dishes before loading them in the dishwasher. only do FUll loads of dishes and laundry

catch the water in the shower while it heats up and use for landscape

how much water can you save every day? Clean potable water will soon be the new "oil" as it becomes a scarcer commodity

think I'm kidding?

Water Scarcity Could Affect Billions:
Is This the Biggest Crisis of All?
by Michael McCarthy


Glug-glug: Not normally a sound of foreboding. But mankind's most serious challenge in the 21st century might not be war or hunger or disease or even the collapse of civic order, a UN report says; it may be the lack of fresh water.

Population growth, pollution and climate change, all accelerating, are likely to combine to produce a drastic decline in water supply in the coming decades, according to the World Water Development Report, published today. And of course that supply is already problematic for up to a third of the world's population.

At present 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water and 2.4 billion lack access to proper sanitation, nearly all of them in the developing countries. Yet the fact that these figures are likely to worsen remorselessly has not been properly grasped by the world community, the report says. "Despite widely available evidence of the crisis, political commitment to reverse these trends has been lacking."

Faced with "inertia at the leadership level and a world population not fully aware of the scale of the problem", the global water crisis will reach unprecedented heights in the years ahead, the report says, with growing per capita scarcity in many parts of the developing world. And that means hunger, disease and death.

more at link http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0305-05.htm