Thursday, April 19th

Water Facts from POST 181 PZ (we have permission to use these facts, but please give credit to the class if possible)

Where our water comes from:

• Claremont is served by the Golden State Water Company. Around 50% flows from Mt. Baldy to the San Antonia Canyon Dam; from the dam it enters the ground and is pumped out by 19 local wells.

• The other 50% is from Northern CA. The Oroville Dam, Sacramento and Feather rivers flow into the Sacramento Bay Delta. The water is then pumped through an aqueduct to the LA area and treated.
  

What you can do:

• Drink tap water. It takes approximately 7 times more water than is in a bottle of bottled water to manufacture and transport that bottle of water.
  
• Eat vegetables, it takes significantly more water to produce and ship meat than vegetables.
• Don’t leave the water running whenever possible, while brushing teeth or shaving, etc. This can save four gallons a minute!
  
• Try to take shorter and more infrequent showers. Using a low flow shower head can save around 500 gallons a week, and turning off the shower while you shampoo and condition yourself can save 50 gallons a week.
• Rewear cloths and do laundry infrequently and in larger loads, washing clothes in full loads can save 600 gallons a month.
• Fix leaks as soon as you can. One drip of water a second from a leaky tap is estimated to waste up to 2,000 gallons a year.  Call F&M if you spot a leak.

Water Facts from me (Katelyn Walker)
Fun fact: bottled water, on average, is ONE THOUSAND times more expensive per liter than tap water (and even better, a lot of bottled water IS tap water, in a bottle)
Fun Fact: the Colorado River is so over-appropriated that, in most years, it no longer reaches the ocean