Water Use

Almost everything around you uses water. It’s not just the pools, gardens, and toilets you see. Think about getting dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. Where did those materials come from? It may not seem obvious, but those items use a lot of water. One cotton t-shirt and a pair of jeans take about 2,500 gallons of water to produce. And that doesn’t include the dyeing process, which can add thousands of gallons of water per ton of fabric. This means that the more you reuse every day items in your life before they are thrown away, the less water you are wasting.

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