Confession: I Fill My Bathtub 22 Times a Day Just to Hear Running Water, Despite the Drought
- truthordrought
- Jan 7, 2015
- 1 min read
If someone confessed this to you, how would you react? Why do we think it's okay to waste this same amount of water for one sensory preference/choice, but not another?
Here is how we arrived at this figure.
In their Water Conservation Tips, National Geographic says, "On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day lessthan a person who eats the average American diet."
Waterfootprint.org puts that number even higher. On this page where they are cited, it says, "Each day, a person who eats a vegan diet saves 1,100 gallons of water."
If you divide 1,100 and 600 by the average bathrub size, that's 12-22 bathtubs.
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