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Having been in the car wash business all my life I have been overly fascinated with water, its properties, cleaning ability and abundance. But as I began my more in depth studies I learned that clean water or pure water is not quite as abundant as it should be. I completed a 2-year study on water conservation, which ended a couple of years ago. The Project started when our figures showed an impending continuation of the mild two-year drought in the mid-west and Eastern Sea Board states. We had watched the NOAA reports and foresaw a terrible situation brewing with regards to the public consumption of water and indiscriminant usage in a belief that the supply was never ending.
When I set off on a 5-year tour of the United States and took the Corporate Command Center, a giant NASCAR Rig Motorhome, on the road, I had contemplated my own water supply on the road. I then tried to figure out how one could live on under ten-gallons a day. While that it itself is a remarkable accomplishment, as the project progressed I kept a journal and studied how it could be improved. After six months the ten gallons a day was lowered to 8 gallons a day and then six months later it was lowered to 6.5 gallons per day. It was then though possible that 6.5 gallons of fresh water per day per person is totally possible. The Blitz Mobile has two water tanks on board now. A fresh water tank contains enough water for one person for over ten days. This includes cooking water, drinking water, ice cubes, showers, toilet flushing, dish washing, tooth brushing, washing of clothes. The second tank is used for a backup and has enough water to wash the Corporate Command Center 10 times. The truck is cleaned about once per week and yes that is an additional 2.6 gallons per day on average, but being in the car wash business, I know a thing or two about conservation in the truck wash business too. www.TruckWashGuys.com
It is important to note that there are many reasons why we waste this natural resource, however we have now proved it is not necessary to waste. It is easy to limit your water usage to ten gallons per day per household member and even possible to go to five gallons and still have proper hygiene and be completely healthy; in many countries and
at least 8% of our planet lives on less than 5 gallons per day. It is estimated that by 2045 that the population will have grown and that over 30% of the World's population will be using less than 10 gallons of water per day and 50% of the Earth's land mass will be in a drought situation.
We can over come these possible futures by limiting our usage of fresh water to only necessities and save the other needs for reclaimed water, gray water and storm run off water. One of the easiest things one can do to limit water usage is to install low float toilets, smaller orifice in the facets, shut off nozzles on garden hoses and limit the time we take showers, water the garden and sprinkler the lawn. There are hundreds of other ways, but these alone in the US would save 15% of the water we use, enough to make the mild drought cycles of little consequence and the large drought cycles such as we are currently in only a minor nuisance.
After 2-years into this study project we have decided not only to throw out our journal of the usage but to go back to the drawing board and attempt to reduce our usage by another one-third. We have replaced the electric 12-volt pumps with a smaller and lower GPM-gallons per minute unit. We believe this will allow us to cut our usage again in the Command Center.
Many might say that there is no need to go this far or go without the much needed water. We understand that people are reluctant to limit their water usage, however we are now able to say it is not that bad, it can be done and should be done. If we are going to continue to populate this planet then we ought to realize that it comes at a cost. We can bare that cost if we work forward to a more sustainable level of consumption.
The moral of the story is this, if I can cut my water usage by that much surely the average household can cut their usage in half both on the outside of the house and the inside. Conserve water, this might be good practice for you for the future. Think on this.
"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/
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