You and I both know it’s important to treat water with the up most respect, it is after all our most basic and needed resource on the planet.
Yet I just didn’t know how needed this resource is. I just imagined that seeing as we get rain in this country (usually quite a lot in some places) that we only ever had to worry about conserving it when Britain was in the mists of a belonged drought.
How wrong I was
Take a look at this infographic below:
Photographic courtesy of Easy Watering
There are two big things that really stood our for me on the above poster:
- That we use 70% more water than we did 40 years ago
- London is drier than Istanbul
Both the above have come from reliable sources (although I’m still trying to track down year by year household water usage data), but I was…
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