According to the EPA’s WaterSense website, “Leaks can account for, on average, 10,000 gallons of water wasted in the home every year, which is enough to fill a backyard swimming pool.” That’s a LOT of water.
If you’re not thinking about the leaks on your property, you’re not doing anyone a favor. Water is a limited commodity, and we need to be good stewards of what we’ve been given in life. Good stewardship is a thought-provoking attitude – a mindful manner of resource management, not a careless, what-do-I-care way to do things. Fixing simple faucet leaks not only preserves the condition of your home, it also saves water.
If you’re not concerned about lack of water in the future, look at it this way.
When our resources get tight even for a season, legislation happens to manage what appears to be limited in an effort to preserve.
If you’re right, and we’re not running low on resources, we still risk ridiculous prices and laws that change our way of life if we don’t do a better job of personal stewardship for the time being. Water is now more expensive per gallon than gasoline.
Whether you decide to be less wasteful based on less future water for everybody, or you decide to be less wasteful because you don’t want to see even MORE legislation affecting your way of life, the choice is really clear.
Watch this video, as Rip The Drip gives us the right perspective. Wasting water is weird.
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