This blog, in a nutshell, is chronicling the quest to becoming environmental friendly.
Yesterday I was sitting watching a documentary called 'Flow'.
It's about the privitization of water all around the world, bottle water industry, and mind boggling facts about where all the fresh water is going. WATCH IT.
Case in point, it made me ashamed to be an American. It made me ashamed to be so incredibly ignorant. It made me want to boycott. It moved me.
But saving the Earth is such a daunting thing. How does one go about doing it?
Well others might have their ways of going about it, but my way is to work towards showering in under 5 minutes.
I'm the kind of girl that likes to sit in the hot water and steam for an hour. The pealing paint and warped floor of the house we've been living in for 13 yrs. is proof of that.
But now that I know that there are people all over the world dieing because they have to resort to highly polluted water because they can't pay the price for clean water, it is a luxury I am willing to go without.
And let me point out, when i say highly polluted I mean HIGHLY POLLUTED. There is a slaughter house in La Paz in which it dumps the excess animal blood and feces into a stream. People bathe and drink from this because they have no other choice!
It is the very, very least I can do to shower in under 5 minutes.
NOTE TO READERS: I would love to get some feedback. Tell me what you think. Questions and comments. Is there anything you would to have adressed?
Thanks for visiting my site and I'm glad you enjoyed it. It is a good thing that you have been "moved" to take action and many more need to. Although we are fortunate in New Zealand to have a plentiful and clean water supply, we are all conscious of how that could easily change. We do things like ensuring that all toilets have half flush and full flush options and because we have had water scares in the past, we also do things like turn taps off while cleaning teeth - how many people do you know that leave the tap running full on out of sheer habit?? Good luck.
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