Tips for Saving Water

The FAO has warned that within two decades, the majority of the earth's population could face serious water shortages.

The culprit isn't so much population growth, but poor water management practices. For example, I live in Australia - the driest inhabited continent in the world; yet we appear to be one of the leaders in water consumption per capita.

The biggest water consuming industry is agriculture. The FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations) states 70 percent of all fresh water drawn globally is for agricultural use - higher in some countries.

While it would be easy to blame farmers, we are all in this together and we as consumers fuel demand for water hungry crops such as cotton. It takes around 925 gallons to produce a single pound of cotton and over half that water is lost through evaporation or other poor water management practices.

While there will always be X amount of water in the world, much of it will be useless or require a great deal of processing at the rate we're going - and that processing requires energy and creates by-products. Rather than us all looking towards processes such as desalination as the cure, as welcome as they are, we should see them as a sign that there's something very wrong in our approach to water.

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