H2O Conserve: A water footprint calculator
Carbon footprint calculators are so 2007... Now we have water footprint calculators! H2O Conserve gives you an estimate of how much water you use via a short quiz. (via Utne)
Answer a few questions about your living situations and personal habits -- shower length, general diet, etc. -- and voila, you get your own personal water footprint score.
Post-quiz, H2O Conserve offers some water-saving tips. But unfortunately, those tips are just general tips, not personal tips based on the answers you gave to the quiz. If your score's high though, these tips would be a good place to start.
My water footprint, according to H2O Conserve, is 538.89 gallons per day, compared to the average American's 1,189.3 gallons. What's your score?
I scored 515. It would be nice if there were something saying how much each answer 'cost' in water (as well as the suggestions you make).
Also, our electricity is from the LADWP, and is on their Green Power tariff, so 100% of it comes from the power company, and 100% is from renewable sources. But that wasn't allowed.
Posted by: Jeremy Miles | February 03, 2008 at 07:19 PM
A great way to conserve water is to use your water footprint calculator.......I will be passing this information along to my friends.......I suppose that in a few short years water will be our nations richest natural resource.
Posted by: Vectorpedia (Rick) | February 06, 2008 at 06:14 AM
hey, here's a quiz question:
which cities in this drought-strewn southern california have quick, free, easy permitting for affordable, easy-to-install residential greywater systems?
answer: none
And Jeremy, please bear in mind that LADWP prefers to kill hundreds of thousands of acres of wilderness for remote, giant "solar farms" and "wind farms" so they can control your supply, rather than promote solar panels on your rooftop, so don't be fooled by their "green" label - they are eco-villains in the extreme. Always have been and always will be. "Renewable Power" is their Mojave version of the great environmental slaughter in the Owens Valley.
They prey on people like you who want to do the right thing, but they are deeply, deeeply involved in ecosystems massacres just east of you, in the Joshua Tree area. oh, and they call their big, unnecessary desert death trail - don't laugh - "Green Path."
Posted by: sheila | February 06, 2008 at 04:55 PM