List your daily Water Usage: For 24 hours, list each time you use water and estimate the volume (number of cups, quarts, gallons or liters) for each usage. BEFORE YOU BEGIN, take a measuring cup or container of known volume (eg. A 2-liter or 2 quart bottle), fill it up and empty it several times so you can learn to estimate small volumes. Use a bucket of known volume in the shower and time how long it takes to fill, then time your shower to get the volume you use in the shower. Check the manufacturer’s book to see how much water the washing machine uses and the dishwasher. Measure a sink-full if you wash dishes by hand. Include toilet flushes and car washing and lawn/garden watering. RECORD THE TOTAL VOLUME FOR THE DAY and reflect on this amount. Do you take steps to conserve water already?

Today I used nearly 12 gallons of water. 9 of those gallons went towards a shower, and the rest went to toilet flushes and using the sink to get ready in the morning. This amount really inst substantially high. I believe that I goto great length to conserve water. I only run the dishwasher when absolutely necessary, and I only run the washer only when I need to. Water is becoming a precious recourse, and it is becoming very important for us to conserve it. I believe people should all become more concious of the amount of water we use. Maybe if we could put a PSA on tv about water use and how little we have left, it could get it into peoples heads.