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This is a big problem! You may not realize but every minute the shower is running you waste gallons of water every minute that its on!

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Nearly every part of the U.S. experiences periods of reduced rainfall. Planning in advance for a drought can protect us in dry years.

Before a Drought

The best way to prepare for a drought is to conserve water. Make conserving water a part of your daily life.

Indoor Water Conservation Tips Before a Drought
GENERAL

Never pour water down the drain when there may be another use for it. For example, use it to water your indoor plants or garden.

Fix dripping faucets by replacing washers. One drop per second wastes 2,700 gallons of water a year.

Check all plumbing for leaks and have any leaks repaired by a plumber.

Retrofit all household faucets by installing aerators with flow restrictors.

Install an instant hot water heater on your sink.

Insulate your water pipes to reduce heat loss and prevent them from breaking.

Install a water-softening system only when the minerals in the water would damage your pipes. Turn the softener off while on vacation.

Choose appliances that are more energy and water efficient.

BATHROOM KITCHEN
Outdoor Water Conservation Tips Before a Drought
GENERAL

If you have a well pump, check it periodically. If the automatic pump turns on and off while water is not being used, you have a leak.

Plant native and/or drought-tolerant grasses, ground covers, shrubs and trees. Once established, your plants won't need as much watering. Group plants together based on similar water needs.

Don't install ornamental water features (such as fountains) unless they use re-circulated water.

Consider rainwater harvesting where practical.

Contact your local water provider for information and assistance.

LAWN CARE POOL
During a Drought

Always observe state and local restrictions on water use during a drought. Contact your state or local government for current information and suggestions.

Indoor Water Conservation Tips During a Drought
BATHROOM LAUNDRY KITCHEN
Outdoor Water Conservation Tips During a Drought
LAWN CARE

A heavy rain eliminates the need for watering for up to two weeks. Most of the year, lawns only need one inch of water per week.

Check the soil moisture levels with a soil probe, spade or large screwdriver. You don't need to water if the soil is still moist. If your grass springs back when you step on it, it doesn't need water yet.

If your lawn does require watering, do so early in the morning or later in the evening, when temperatures are cooler.

Water in several short sessions rather than one long one, in order for your lawn to better absorb moisture and avoid runoff.

Use a broom or blower instead of a hose to clean leaves and other debris from your driveway or sidewalk.

Avoid leaving sprinklers or hoses unattended. A garden hose can pour out 600 gallons or more in only a few hours.

In extreme drought, allow lawns to die in favor of preserving trees and large shrubs.

CAR WASHING

Use a commercial car wash that recycles water.

If you wash your own car, use a shut-off nozzle that can be adjusted down to a fine spray on your hose.

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Drawing a line on the lawn amid water conservation and drought/summary

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Drawing a line on the lawn amid water conservation and drought/summary

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This article is about how people waist a lot of water on their lawns and the pesticides on your lawn can go in the sewers and can end up in dirty water.

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"This is the irony," mused homeowner Richard Turner as he looked over the newly installed and remarkably realistic-looking artificial lawn in his mid-Wilshire frontyard. "We grow grass to make the illusion that we don't live in a desert. Here I am, enhancing the illusion of a lawn that is the illusion we don't live in a desert."

And there's the rub. The iconic lush, green lawn - part and parcel of a mystique deeply embedded in the Southern California psyche and its landscape - has reached a crossroads. Deepening drought, skyrocketing water costs and burgeoning social consciousness have combined to call into question not only the lawn's continued feasibility but its very desirability.

The issue is polarizing, often passionate, with science fueling both sides of the argument. Turf supporters contend lawns not only cool the surrounding air and generate oxygen but also pull harmful carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Opponents counter that any such benefit is more than offset by the lawn's sizable carbon footprint, from the cost to water it to production and transportation of fertilizer to feed it and gasoline to mow it.

The perception of the home lawn as a guilty pleasure is growing. Many municipal water districts, including the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the Long Beach Water Department and Pasadena Water and Power, offer "cash for turf" programs, rebates of $1 to $3 a square foot to replace a grass lawn with low-water plantings. The LADWP, which has had a program in place since 2009, reports a tenfold increase in its turf removal projects since last summer. Increasingly, homeowners - sometimes with ambivalence - are replacing lawns with mixes of native plants, decomposed granite and succulents.

"The days of everyone expecting to have a lush green lawn are over," said Glendale homeowner Tamara O'Connor, who, after 27 years, is pulling out her large front lawn. "Everything is changing, isn't it?"

For some, the time hasn't come fast enough. Hadley and Peter Arnold, co-founders of the Burbank-based Arid Lands Institute, a think tank exploring design innovation in water-stressed environments, see the reevaluation of lawns as long overdue. The big issue, the Arnolds said, is the enormous energy cost of importing water into Southern California, 60% of which goes to irrigating landscaping, primarily lawns.

The Arnolds said they happily live without a lawn at their own home.

"We have an amazing yard - we eat in it, we play in it, our kids give performances in it, and there's not a blade of Kentucky bluegrass on it," Hadley Arnold said. "The lawn is a visual reference to other places and other times that we carry along like a security blanket that we don't need."

Turfgrass suppliers, however, say not so fast. "You are not going to see lawns go anywhere in the near future," said John Marman, director of sales and marketing for West Coast Turf, the largest turfgrass supplier in the Western United States. "It's pretty amazing how important lawns are to people."

Chantal D'Apuzzo, a new mother with a newly remodeled, midcentury ridge-top house west of the Rose Bowl, would agree. The D'Apuzzos, who have succulents elsewhere, are putting in a 40-by-40-foot lawn. "I have visions of my daughter taking her first steps and tumbling down on a lawn," she said. "I imagine playing out there with her a lot. I don't really feel guilty about it."

The D'Apuzzos apparently are not alone. The LADWP is pleased with the recent rise in turf-rebate requests - 7.4 million square feet of turf have been removed from the Los Angeles landscape since 2009. But that is only 1,298 projects out of 482,000 single-family homes.

Marman of West Coast Turf reported that his business has increased during the drought as "a significant number are calling to replace their cool-season lawns with warm-season" grasses.

UC Riverside's Jim Baird, assistant Cooperative Extension specialist in turfgrass management - the "last man standing" in California turfgrass research - believes that the biggest problem with the region's lawns is people's lack of understanding of how to manage them.

It starts with the choice of grass. The trend has been toward cool-season grasses - tall fescues such as Marathon - that stay greener longer but need more water. Warm-season grasses, often hybrids of Bermudas and buffalo grass, need 20% less water, and can survive with less. Their downside is that they can turn brown in winter - and Californians don't like brown lawns.

Baird pointed out that grass goes dormant - and nearly ceases growing - in cold weather and needs little or no water, and no mowing. "My irrigation goes off and stays off during the winter," he said.

In the hot summer months, Baird said, lawns need to be watered no more than three days a week. And watering should be done in a way that ensures penetration and minimizes runoff. He recommends one to four minutes at a time, three or four times each watering day. And always in the early morning or the evening, never in the heat of the day.

People also cut lawns too short at the expense of the root system. Deeper roots yield more drought tolerance.

"Managing your lawn is not rocket science," Baird said. "There's a lot of good information out there. You just have to want to find it."

The key, said landscape designer Sasha Tarnopolsky of Dry Design, is to "be thoughtful. Only put a lawn where it will be used. You can think of it as a rug defining a room. Today's purposeful lawns can be thought of as special and useful places, not wallpaper plastered over hill and dale."

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"This is the irony," mused homeowner Richard Turner as he looked over the newly installed and remarkably realistic-looking artificial lawn in his mid-Wilshire frontyard. "We grow grass to make the illusion that we don't live in a desert. Here I am, enhancing the illusion of a lawn that is the illusion we don't live in a desert."

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Conserving Water, One Drop at a Time, Summary

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Conserving Water, One Drop at a Time, Summary

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The central idea is that water is limited and we need to try to conserve it. Two important details were that toilets waste the most water and many Californians have dried wells.

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SUMMARY: Californians get crazy in battle over water due to drought

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SUMMARY: Californians get crazy in battle over water due to drought

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In the book the author examines how many people in California are low on water due to a drought that has occurred what will they do without a big supply of water?

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SUMMARY:  A giant floating trash collector will try to scoop up ocean garbage patch

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SUMMARY:  A giant floating trash collector will try to scoop up ocean garbage patch

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In this lesson the author examines how lots of plastic has been put in the water, and that we need to remove it or it will make a problem. Our sources are listed below

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The central idea is that we take water for granted and don't realize how important it is to us. Two important details are that we can reuse greywater and farms take up 60% of overall water usage.

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 Summary              Things we can do when there are droughts

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There are many things we can do to prevent droughts when they come.  what we can do is when we have to take a shower don't leave it running believe it our not that waste a lot of water but that is not it there is many more ways to do it.

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America's population has doubled over the last half century, and our demand for water has tripled. Water conservation is more important than ever, and the world is looking for tips on saving water. The great news is that with just a few simple changes, you can reduce your water footprint. And Constellation is here to help!

How to save water: 10 tips for saving water around the home

The majority of household water use comes from toilets, washing machines, showers, baths, faucets and leaks, but what you can do to save water is fairly simple. These 10 water-saving tips will put you on the path to conserving water in your household.

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Learn what water conservation is, why it's important to you, and Constellation's top 10 tips for saving water around the home.

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Water pollution is one of the biggest threats to the environment today. The best solution for water pollution is prevention. While preventing water pollution may seem to be an overwhelming subject to tackle, there are a number of things that the average person can do. This article can teach you what things we can do to help.

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Water is used almost everyday! When we brush our teeth with the water we actually dont think what we could be doing, for example wasting water.

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Every single drop of water counts in some places! Did you know that an average adult American uses about 80 to 100 gallons of water per day! But we can lower this. If you turn off the water while you brush teeth, you will save about 3000 gallons per year!

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Did you know that as an American you likely use between 80 to 100 gallons of water each day? Every single day. Yes, that's more than 29,000 gallons each year. And the mind-boggling part? The largest household use of water is flushing the toilet. We are literally flushing one of the earth's most precious resources down the toilet.

That's the bad news. The good news is there is much you can do to conserve water. Every drop counts-just ask the thousands of Californians whose wells have gone dry.

First let's figure out your toilet's water use. It should say somewhere on it how many gallons it uses per flush. If it uses 1.6 gallons per flush, it is meeting the federal standard. Bonus points if it says 1.28 gallons per flush and meets the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) WaterSense standards. It'll save 20% over the 1.6-gallon model. If your toilet is an older, much less efficient model it is likely using 6 gallons of water per flush and costing you an extra $100 per year. According to EPA, if all of the inefficient toilets in the country were replaced with WaterSense models, it would equal 640 billion gallons of water savings per year. That's the amount of water that flows over Niagara Falls in two weeks.

Whether you already have a low-flow toilet or not, be sure it is functioning properly and not leaking. To do this, open the back of the toilet and drop in a few drops of food coloring. If that color appears in the toilet bowl within the next 15 minutes or so, you have a leak that needs to be fixed as soon as possible. (Tip: Do this test right before you are going to flush it anyway to avoid staining.)

Even though toilets are the biggest household user of water, they aren't the only way you are wasting water in the bathroom. If you turn off the water while brushing your teeth, you can save up to eight gallons of water per day-that's nearly 3,000 gallons per year.

The shower is another place with the potential to save a lot of water. Federal regulations mandate that showerheads can't exceed 2.5 gallons of flow per minute, but the very best use 2 gallons per minute or less. Not only can you conserve water by installing a low-flow showerhead, but you can also save energy (and money) on water heating.

Some people also have their washer and dryer in their bathrooms, leaving yet another way to conserve water in this room of the house. When is it time to do laundry, be sure you are only washing full loads. If you do have to wash a small load, be sure to use the appropriate water level setting. Also, look for ENERGY STAR clothes washers, which clean clothes using 35% less water and 20% less energy than standard appliances.

If you follow all of these tips for water conservation, you are bound to make your bathroom the most water-conscious room in your house. You can then move on to finding ways to conserve in the kitchen and yard!

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Water gets polluted when waste or toxic substances mix with bodies of water, such as lakes, reservoirs, streams or rivers. Common water pollutants include chemical waste, pesticides and gasoline. A good amount of the pollutants come from factories.

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Water gets polluted when waste or toxic substances mix with bodies of water, such as lakes, reservoirs, streams or rivers. Common water pollutants include chemical waste, pesticides and...

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Droughts across the world are harming lots and lots of people like a small town in Cape town Africa is in a big drought so they are already having hard times with food this is a very poor place that now does not have any water to drink. there is a solution to this by saving water so when this happens we have water to spare.

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Cape Town will not run out of water this year or next, the South African tourist board has said.

The popular holiday destination came within weeks of Day Zero - when the taps would be turned off and emergency water rations imposed across the city - at the beginning of this year, as dams ran dry amid one of the worst droughts in the Western Cape in living memory.

Crisis was averted thanks to city-wide pleas to locals and visitors to regulate water use, including restrictions on taking baths, flushing the toilet and washing clothes, but concerns remained that the city would face more shortages by the end of the year. As recently as May, experts were discussing towing an iceberg from Antarctica to Cape Town to help alleviate the stress on water supplies.

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This week the city said thanks to "sustained and heavy rains over the last two months, Cape Town's dams have collectively increased by over 20 percentage points". Day Zero will now not take place in 2018 or 2019, a representative of the tourist board said.

Officials in the city have been worried the drought would impact visitor numbers as tourists were put off by stringent water controls.

"Travellers are invited to come and enjoy, but still be mindful of water-wise tourism during their stay and continue to treat water as a precious resource," the city council said.

This week the city celebrated the levels of its six key dams passing an average of 50 per cent for the first time in 18 months. At the peak of the drought, usable water levels were down to less than 20 per cent.

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The level has slipped to 48 per cent in the last few days, and with no rain forecast for the next week, locals are being reminded that some water restrictions remain in place. Deputy mayor Ian Neilson said on Thursday that restrictions can only be allowed to lapse completely should levels pass 80 per cent, a figure last seen back in 2014.

Tolene van der Merwe, UK head for South African Tourism, said Cape Town was in a stronger position now - in mid-winter - than it was at the end of winter last year.

"However, we must continue to be sensitive to the changing environment and modify our attitudes to water consumption to ensure we manage and preserve this invaluable resource for generations to come," van der Merwe said.

"This latest announcement highlights the positive impact that water wise tourism has had on Cape Town and the effectiveness of making small changes to our day-to-day lives to help combat environmental issues. Of course, the recent increase in rainfall has contributed significantly to the rise in dam levels."

The city's tourist board, in association with the Western Cape government, said water usage in Cape Town has fallen by 60 per cent in just three years, "a phenomenal achievement, unmatched by any other major city in the world", but a target usage of 450 million litres a day remains. Last week, the daily average was 481 million litres, a record low.

During the drought the Western Cape government told locals to "get creative" with how they saved water.

Cape Town hotels removed bath plugs and encouraged guests to take quick showers. Some restaurants refused to serve tap water, while car hire firms stopped washing their vehicles.

One of the city's most prestigious restaurants, the Test Kitchen, run by Luke Dale Roberts, launched a pop-up, the Drought Kitchen, where food was served on paper plates to eliminate the need to wash 5,000 plates a week.

Guidance issued to tourists visiting the Western Cape last summer is increasingly being seen as the norm for travellers around the world.

Last year, the World Travel and Tourism Council launched its Is It Too Much To Ask? campaign, encouraging tourists to sign up to any of 10 pledges that encompass all elements of environmentally friendly and responsible travel. Among them was a three-minute limit on showers in water-scarce destinations, a vow to offset the CO2 impact of a trip and to demand to see the environmental credentials of any tour operator before booking. Indeed, the ubiquity of plastic in hotels featured in Telegraph Travel's very own campaign to improve the way we travel.

"For decades, the travel and tourism sector has been trying to make sustainable and responsible practices more mainstream," the WTTC said. "It shouldn't be called 'sustainable tourism' as a niche, but rather just 'tourism'."

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Cape Town drought: City will not run out of water this year or next

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Cape Town will not run out of water this year or next, the South African tourist board has said. The popular holiday destination came within weeks of Day Zero - when the taps would be turned off and emergency water rations imposed across the city - at the beginning of this year, as dams ran dry amid one of the worst droughts in the Western Cape in living memory.

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Environmental Issues with Water (Hi guys in the future if u ever look at this :P - 9/30/2020)

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Environmental Issues with Water (Hi guys in the future if u ever look at this :P - 9/30/2020)

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By: John, Joel, Maya, Josh

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Water pollution is a terrible thing for the environment. We need to make a change.

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Maya McCredie: You may not know how to waste water, but you do! We need to stop.