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What's New
New Report Released - Brock contributes to this report entitled “Water Stewardship: Ensuring a Secure Future for California Agriculture”
Water Consciousness Book - Brock contributes a chapter to this newly published guide.
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution DVD - See Brock interviewed in this new documentary.
Basins Of Relations Publication - Get a copy of our 20 page citizen's guide to protecting and restoring your watershed.
Reader's Survey - We want your feedback on our Basins of Relations publication.
Roofwater Harvesting Resource List - Check out this comprehensive resource on rainwater harvesting policy, design and installation.
Water Consciousness Book - Brock contributes a chapter to this newly published guide.
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution DVD - See Brock interviewed in this new documentary.
Basins Of Relations Publication - Get a copy of our 20 page citizen's guide to protecting and restoring your watershed.
Reader's Survey - We want your feedback on our Basins of Relations publication.
Roofwater Harvesting Resource List - Check out this comprehensive resource on rainwater harvesting policy, design and installation.
Water Facts
If all the world's water were fit into a gallon jug,
the fresh water available for us to use would
equal only about one tablespoon.
A corn field of one acre gives off 4,000
gallons of water per day in evaporation.
It takes about 6 gallons of water to grow a single serving of lettuce.
More than 2,600 gallons is required to produce a single serving of steak.
Water facts
Factoid of the month 4/03: There are more than twice as many acres of lawn in the Chesapeake Bay watershed as there are freshwater wetlands.
From the Center for Watershed Protection
BOTTLED WATER CONSUMPTION IN AMERICA
US Consumption in 1978 was 415 Million Gallons
US Consumption in 2001 was 5.4 Billion Gallons
A rise of 1,300%, equaling about 43 Billion 16oz plastic bottles!!!
Bottled water is now the fastest growing product among the top 50 supermarket categories.
Source: Water Follies: Groundwater pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters
by Robert Glennon. 2002
Nearly 97% of the world's water is salty or otherwise undrinkable.
Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. Only 1% can be used
for all agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community and personal needs.
Drinking Water Week
Human beings are made up mostly of water, in roughly the same percentage
as water is to the surface of the earth. Our tissues and membranes, our brains and hearts, our sweat and tears--all reflect the same recipe for life, in which efficient use is made of those ingredients available on the surface of the earth.
We are 23 percent carbon, 2.6 percent nitrogen, 1.4 percent calcium, 1.1 percent phosphorous, with tiny amounts of roughly three dozen other elements. But above all we are oxygen (61 percent) and hydrogen (10 percent), fused together in the unique molecular combination known as water, which makes up 71 percent of the human body.
Al Gore, Earth in the Balance
the fresh water available for us to use would
equal only about one tablespoon.
A corn field of one acre gives off 4,000
gallons of water per day in evaporation.
It takes about 6 gallons of water to grow a single serving of lettuce.
More than 2,600 gallons is required to produce a single serving of steak.
Water facts
Factoid of the month 4/03: There are more than twice as many acres of lawn in the Chesapeake Bay watershed as there are freshwater wetlands.
From the Center for Watershed Protection
BOTTLED WATER CONSUMPTION IN AMERICA
US Consumption in 1978 was 415 Million Gallons
US Consumption in 2001 was 5.4 Billion Gallons
A rise of 1,300%, equaling about 43 Billion 16oz plastic bottles!!!
Bottled water is now the fastest growing product among the top 50 supermarket categories.
Source: Water Follies: Groundwater pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters
by Robert Glennon. 2002
Nearly 97% of the world's water is salty or otherwise undrinkable.
Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. Only 1% can be used
for all agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community and personal needs.
Drinking Water Week
Human beings are made up mostly of water, in roughly the same percentage
as water is to the surface of the earth. Our tissues and membranes, our brains and hearts, our sweat and tears--all reflect the same recipe for life, in which efficient use is made of those ingredients available on the surface of the earth.
We are 23 percent carbon, 2.6 percent nitrogen, 1.4 percent calcium, 1.1 percent phosphorous, with tiny amounts of roughly three dozen other elements. But above all we are oxygen (61 percent) and hydrogen (10 percent), fused together in the unique molecular combination known as water, which makes up 71 percent of the human body.
Al Gore, Earth in the Balance