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The Future of Water is in Your Hands... |
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Did you know it requires a minimum of 13 gallons of water per day to meet basic human needs? However, Americans use at least 50 gallons per day on average to meet our current lifestyle. If you include irrigation water in this calculation, it quickly doubles to over 100 gallons of water per day. Yet, across America and across the globe, water supplies are increasingly coming under severe stress.
You must ask yourself, "What will I do when- not if - the tap goes dry?" Being left high and dry without water from a municipal grid is a serious situation that borders on crisis.
Take a moment to imagine and answer this question. Where is the nearest fresh water source you could use for drinking water? A pond at the local golf course? Who knows if it's safe to drink? Would you buy all of your water in bottles from the grocery store? That could get expensive. Water delivery? Where would you put it? Maybe collect the rain? Now you're thinking!
Independent, sustainable water supplies utilizing rainwater harvesting are the way of the future. They are safe, easy to maintain and simply smart! Rainwater is free of chlorine and pollutants commonly found in municipal water grids. Did you know that a sampling program in the 1990s found 30 different pharmaceuticals and related chemicals in surface water samples (Ternes, 1998) in the U.S.? These chemicals enter our drinking water supplies when they are flushed down the toilet and they are compounding in our water systems because they never get filtered out!
Take your water future into your own hands. Start collecting rainwater now! It's yours, it's free, it's clean and you need lots of it!
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