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Save water

Substantial resources are used to bring water to the world’s population and as a result of climate change access to clean water will become even more unevenly distributed. 

 

OECD countries have a consumption per inhabitant of over 100 litres of water a day, in the U.S. it is 330 litres, whereas in developing countries it is only 10 litres. When a toilet in the western world is flushed twice, it uses as much water as a person in a developing country uses in an entire day for food, drink and washing. If you shorten your daily shower by one minute you can save 3 300 litres of water a year and 200 kilowatt hours of energy.