Water Footprint
Out of three categories(indoor, outdoor, and virtual), my largest was virtual. Followed by outdoor and then indoor being barely anything. Below I have the results of my water use, based on www.watercalculator.org.
A day, for just my indoor water use and based on the results from my water footprint, I spend .39 cents. All together, it would cost me $11.30 a day for my indoor, outdoor, and virtual water use. Amounting to about $339 a month! Thankfully, I only pay an average of $30 a month for my water bill; which is about $1 a day. I would love to be spending only .39 cents a day for water, however I will stick my current water bill over $11.30 a day.
Is this financially worth it for me? No. The reason I say that is because I think that the survey was somewhat flawed when it asked if you ate meat or not(with it being my largest amount of calculated water use). My main meat is chicken, and a large portion of my diet consists of chicken and rice. I would assume that chickens do not require as much water as do other animals. But with that aside, I do not find that if I were to change my diet that it would be finacially worth it for me.
If there was an even 300 million people living in the United States, then the amount of water used per day would be 677,400,000,000 billion gallons. Based on the amount of water used in the United States stated before, people would be spending a total of $3,387,000,000 a day for water.
In good consciousness, I would have to say that it is finacially worth it to TRY to practice water conservation. But what is the goal here? Is there a number that we want to strive for per person usage? It is not like energy where everything could be renewable. As possible as it may be in theory, water renewability in its current state is not an option available to the public right now. I do not know the right answer, however I will say that it would be finacially worth to try to practice water conservation.
As to why it included items that do not use water, it used water in the making of those items. Above where I described my issue with the diet question, plants and animals all require a large amount of water in order to grow/live.
Overall, I was pleased with my water footprint. It was a surprising find that most of my water footprint is from virtual water. There must be a way that the food industry could reduce its water footprint, which would help both the environment and save costs!
In terms of my own ecological footprint, I have been strongly considering biking more often. I do not have my bike with me where I currently live nor would I have room for it, however my wife and I will be moving soon and I hope to bring my bike over to our new place. Maybe with it being available to me, I will ride it to places that I would not need a car to get to.
A day, for just my indoor water use and based on the results from my water footprint, I spend .39 cents. All together, it would cost me $11.30 a day for my indoor, outdoor, and virtual water use. Amounting to about $339 a month! Thankfully, I only pay an average of $30 a month for my water bill; which is about $1 a day. I would love to be spending only .39 cents a day for water, however I will stick my current water bill over $11.30 a day.
Is this financially worth it for me? No. The reason I say that is because I think that the survey was somewhat flawed when it asked if you ate meat or not(with it being my largest amount of calculated water use). My main meat is chicken, and a large portion of my diet consists of chicken and rice. I would assume that chickens do not require as much water as do other animals. But with that aside, I do not find that if I were to change my diet that it would be finacially worth it for me.
If there was an even 300 million people living in the United States, then the amount of water used per day would be 677,400,000,000 billion gallons. Based on the amount of water used in the United States stated before, people would be spending a total of $3,387,000,000 a day for water.
In good consciousness, I would have to say that it is finacially worth it to TRY to practice water conservation. But what is the goal here? Is there a number that we want to strive for per person usage? It is not like energy where everything could be renewable. As possible as it may be in theory, water renewability in its current state is not an option available to the public right now. I do not know the right answer, however I will say that it would be finacially worth to try to practice water conservation.
As to why it included items that do not use water, it used water in the making of those items. Above where I described my issue with the diet question, plants and animals all require a large amount of water in order to grow/live.
Overall, I was pleased with my water footprint. It was a surprising find that most of my water footprint is from virtual water. There must be a way that the food industry could reduce its water footprint, which would help both the environment and save costs!
In terms of my own ecological footprint, I have been strongly considering biking more often. I do not have my bike with me where I currently live nor would I have room for it, however my wife and I will be moving soon and I hope to bring my bike over to our new place. Maybe with it being available to me, I will ride it to places that I would not need a car to get to.
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