Name: Water Efficiency at Home | National Geographic
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T18:52:01.000Z
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half of the freshwater basins may not meet our demands.

For this story I'm in my home state of Florida.

This is Silver Springs, almost half of Florida's freshwater

wet season rainfall in the south of the state fell by 45%.

for conserving water and hoard of culture.

up to half of Florida's residential water

What can we do to make that more efficient.

- We have about six months out of the year

and six months where we have drought conditions.

If you do that we can really cut down on irrigation.

That's really climate friendly gardening.

to collect our water, protect our water and reuse it.

- Yeah, so in my own home I have rain barrels.

but really the things we do in our own homes,

- But it's not just outside where we can make a difference.

On average, American families use more than

I'd love to see how my family could save water at home.

- From dripping toilets or faulty facets leaks in our homes

can loose nearly a trillion gallons of water every year.

on a faucet can save up to 3,000 gallons of water per year.

rinse our dirty dishes under a running faucet

Because you actually need the dishes to be dirty

latch on to food particles to work effectively.

But the minute we realize that every drop is valuable,

we begin to change our behavior for the better.

Whether that's creating a climate friendly garden,

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