Thursday, January 3, 2013

Water foot print calculator





The ecological footprint is a measure of human impact and demand for natural resources. Buying lot of stuff, not recycling, etc., makes our ecological footprint bigger.
But what about water consumption? There's a proper measure for it, the water footprint. Sometimes we aren't aware of our water consumption, for example nobody knows in a year we flush in the toilet as much water as we drink in 40 years.
Generally we think our water consumption is limited to the amount of showers we have: it's good to save water when we are in the bathroom  (remember to close the tap whenever you brush your teeth), but let's not forget we need water to grow food and  to produce all the items present in our life: to produce a car we need as much water as 50 times its weight.
Our diet and our daily habits influence our water foot print, calculate yours and discover what you could do to reduce it.

Water foot print calculator


1 comment:

  1. Sorry, I'm write to here my post(because I'm not a computer genius )
    Here it is:

    Composting toilet

    A composting toilet is a dry toilet that uses a predominantly aerobic processing system that treats excreta, typically with no water or small volumes of flush water, via composting or managed aerobic decomposition. Composting toilets may be used as an alternative to flush toilets in situations where there is no suitable water supply or waste treatment facility available or to capture nutrients in human excreta as humanure.
    The human excrement is normally mixed with sawdust, coconut coir, peat moss to support aerobic processing, absorb liquids, and to reduce the odor. The decomposition process is generally faster than the anaerobic decomposition used in wet sewage treatment systems such as septic tanks.

    and because I can't (too)take here a picture,take an URL:
    http://www.google.com/imgres?num=10&hl=hu&tbo=d&biw=1366&bih=589&tbm=isch&tbnid=nGtmoIxhdjABmM:&imgrefurl=http://www.igreenspot.com/green-portable-toilet-an-eco-friendly-waste-disposal-area/&docid=MaVn9GDO92DA_M&imgurl=http://imagesme.net/igreenspot/eco-toilet-prototype2.jpg&w=450&h=329&ei=9Jv1UOYs5oniBKiPgaAJ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=12&vpy=136&dur=2872&hovh=140&hovw=211&tx=194&ty=118&sig=117233807276520854293&page=1&tbnh=140&tbnw=211&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:82

    Uh!Sorry again,Gina

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