Sustainability In Our

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Sustainability In Our Own Backyard
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Personal Use of Water
Everybody in some way uses water everyday.
Whether they drink it, bath or clean with it, or
maybe cook with it. Some people use very little
some way to much. Were going to try and tell how
to use just the perfect amount.
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What We Use Water For
Cooking Cleaning Bathing Drinking Laundry T
oilets Water games Water guns Lawn
watering Farming Businesses
Industry Manufacturing
THE BASICS
Enjoyment
Livelyhood
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How to Reduce Personal Usage of Water

• Some of the ways we can reduce the use of water
  are
• 1)Install Low Flow toilets in our houses-
  Because you can save Money, Hydro and other
  things to help out with the environment.
• Make sure we shut of taps and get water efficient
  taps and shower heads
• Attend recreation opportunities on local lakes
  and rivers, and learn about the wildlife they
  support. It will help you understand what we
  could happen if we dont manage our water.

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Water Averages
In a 4 person household the average amount of
water is 400 gallons which equals 1514.164712
litres a day. Per a year each person uses
32,120 gallons and 121734.8 litres a year.
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Water Efficient appliances
When you buy water saving appliances it may cost
lots, but it also will save you money. By not
using as much water you will save money on your
water bill. By doing this the appliances will pay
for them selves. Here are some water saving
appliances.
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Personal ways of saving water
Tightly turn off taps when your done using
them. Turn off taps while brushing teeth. Put
water the fridge rather than running water to
get it cold. Dont run water just to get it to a
certain temperature.
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We should conserve water because we are taking
fresh water from our ecosystems
when we could use salt water for toilets because
we dont need to waste fresh water for something
that we can use salt water for
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