Your Water Footprint Is Just as Important as the Carbon One

Fresh water is vital to life and high water footprints contribute to water insecurities everywhere on the planet.

To reduce your water footprint, the solutions are easy to implement and, more often than not, obvious. Have shorter showers and forget all about baths, don’t water your lawn (or even better, forget about it all together and grow a garden instead), eat less meat, and shop at second-hand stores (animals and cotton are very water-consumptive).

According to GRACE Communications Foundation, The average American has a “water footprint” of 2,121 gallons (almost 8 thousand litres) per day, a very impressive number when one is aware of the serious water crisis the American West is and will continue to be facing. You can obtain your own average water footprint by using the calculator above. If your number seems high, you know what you need to do.