{"id":424,"date":"2017-07-16T02:44:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T02:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=424"},"modified":"2017-07-16T02:48:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T02:48:54","slug":"424-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/424-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

It amazes me how much freshwater is embedded within almost every commodity we produce. The products in the below diagram from, What does virtual water\u00a0conceal, <\/em>are all mass produced throughout the world. They are common in most people\u2019s daily lives. \u00a0Our water foot print is tied directly to our state\u2019s economic structure.<\/p>\n

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Our water footprint changes everyday not only individually but globally. As individuals we need it to survive, we are encouraged to drink it, it is in the food we eat, and it\u2019s necessary to complete basic household tasks.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know about you but, I take a shower every day, I brush my teeth and I do the dishes which tend to waste water. I know like most I try to drink 64 oz of water and eat three meals a day without thinking twice about the bigger picture, until last week.\u00a0 The material pushed me to look into how much water I actually use because as individuals we don\u2019t necessarily bring too much attention to it. It raises the question, when will we run out of water, or can we?<\/p>\n

I ended up finding a website that would help me calculate my own footprint. It turns out that just with basic household tasks throughout the week I use over 1900 gallons of water a week on average, not including my personal water consumption. This is typical for someone who does three loads laundry a week, runs the dishwasher at least once and shower daily. They say knowledge is power so I would encourage you to take the time to figure out what your footprint it. \u00a0Maybe if more people knew how much water they used we could learn to use it more efficiently.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.watercalculator.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It amazes me how much freshwater is embedded within almost every commodity we produce. The products in the below diagram from, What does virtual water\u00a0conceal, are all mass produced throughout the world. They are common in most people\u2019s daily lives. \u00a0Our water foot print is tied directly to our state\u2019s economic structure. Our water footprint changes everyday not only individually… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}