Ways That People Today are Wasting Water
There are many different ways that people are wasting water in the world today. And a lot of these have huge consequences on the world around them. The problem is creating droughts in places, rivers and lakes have their water levels lowering. A lot of these problems are very common but are also very simple to get rid of. But one thing that makes it hard to get rid of these habits is that this isn't something that we do every once in a while. These are things that we do every single day, and we do it multiple times in one day as well.
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Some Everyday Ways That we Waste Water
Keeping the faucet on while brushing teeth1/3 of the world's population says that they keep the faucet on while they are brushing their teeth. The average person uses 5 gallons of water every time they leave the faucet on while they are brushing their teeth
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Taking long showersThe average human uses around 17-25 gallons of water every time they take a shower. And the average shower is 8 minutes long.
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People watering their lawn.Not everybody has irrigation for their yard. But for the people that do, it is actually wasting a lot of water. 623 gallons of water are used per week to water the lawn.
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Another way that it is wasted: One of the biggest ways that water is wasted today is through landscaping. I bet you didn't know that 50% of all water that is used during landscaping is wasted. Some ways to fix this problem are to put mulch around the base of all your trees and