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Why are water conservation facts so important for you to know? Consider this: Water may cover more than 70% of the planet, but only 2% of all that water is suitable for drinking, and only 1% of all that water is actually available for consumption. According to Nature Canada, 68.9% of the earth’s fresh water [...]

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Our gardens are beautiful and can be an excellent way to put our eco friendly green thumbs to work. But plants need water, and lots of it. If it doesn’t rain regularly, that usually means using the hose or sprinklers. Unfortunately this is very wasteful of water–it runs off where it isn’t needed, it evaporates, [...]

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According to the EPA, showering represents about 17 percent of residential indoor water use in the US. This amounts to over 1.2 trillion gallons of water every year or almost 3.3 billion gallons a day. That water comes out of our rivers, streams, and lakes while causing great harm to these fragile ecosystems. All this [...]

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