Brushing your teeth
March 21st, 2007
Don’t you dare tell me that you leave the tap running whilst brushing your teeth. You don’t need to. You only need it to wet your brush and then rinse it off. The delightful sound of water rushing down the plug is not required.
A running tap can lose up to 5 or 6 litres of water a minute (depending on who’s reporting it). So say 10 litres of water a day is potentially lost becuase it takes you that little effort to turn the tap on and off.
For shame.
Perhaps if you remember that there are people in the world who currently don’t have enough clean water to drink on a day to day basis. Maybe this story should remind you that water should not be taken for granted:
Many women and children in developing countries spend hours each day walking miles to collect water. This water is usually dirty and unsafe but they have no alternative.
Carrying heavy water containers is an exhausting task, which takes up valuable time and energy. It prevents women from doing vital domestic or income generating work and stops children from going to school.
Mangalita Siamajele, returns from the hole where she collects water when the river bed is dry, carrying a metal bucket filled with water on her head.
She struggles to walk as she has a bad hip. “I am so tired,” she says. “Where I have come from is very far, walking with 20 litres on my head. I am old, I have a bad hip and am always tired, carrying this bucket twice a day, I need to get home, I need to rest.”
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First the Hulk tells me to recycle my plastic bags…now I can’t leave the water on when I brush my teeth? The little pleasures in life are rapidly dissapearing!
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LOL Poor Becca! By the way the Thing told you to recycle your plastic bags - The Hulk wants you to eat vegetarian!
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Right! Damn superheroes need to stay out of my personal business!
Besides how can the Hulk tell me to eat vegetarian when eating too many veggies obviously turned his flesh green. Please don’t ask me what he was eating when he turned grey.
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Kudos to you hon for giving me the LOL moment of the day! Grey Hulk - god we’re pop culture geeks!
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I bow to both of your superior geekitude in the field of comics/superheroes.
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the people without clean water can thank their tyrant rulers but I don’t waste water cause it is such a precious commodity and we’re running out of sweet water and besides I HATE waste!
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Tisha - Damn nice to see ya around girl!
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MC - I almost mentioned Zombie Hulk not being vegetarian friendly LOL
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Not sure why, but I can’t brush my teeth unless the tap is running! I even tried again this morning…
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Shame on you Nav!
Now you’re going to special area in hell they reserve for people who don’t turn the tap off.
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