Five tips for conserving water during warm-weather months (BPT)
- Water and the summer months tend to go hand-in-hand - water
skiing or fishing at a lake, taking a dip in a swimming pool and
watering home-grown plants with a garden hose are among the
season's most popular activities. Recent summers have also been
some of the driest on record, prompting grass fires, drastically
low lake levels and water utilities having to implement water
restrictions on their customers. The National Weather Service
has predicted that states from Georgia to Texas to California
and even the Hawaiian islands will see persisting and
potentially intensifying drought conditions this summer. In
addition to local droughts, water scarcity is a global issue.
According to the United Nations' Water for Life campaign, around
1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's
population, live in parts of the world where access to clean
water sources is extremely difficult. Additionally, water around
the world is unevenly distributed, t