Article of the Day
Today at work, I was drawn attention to this article and it made me realise that the amount of we consume is much greater than we’d thought. This excludes the water we drink, wash and flush our toilet with. It is not suprising that the more processed an item is, the more water it consumes because processed things undergo more stages in their life compared to less processed goods such as apples and eggs. (LCA - different thing, but can also be applied to water)
So.. should we only buy things that has the least water footprint? No way!
While this article reminds us of how much negative impact we can impose our environment and our (limited - because water is scarce in Australia) water resources, it is unneccessary to totally deprive ourselves of luxury items just because it would increase our ecological/water footprint, but rather be a little bit more conscious on what we buy and how to use our resources more wisely.