World Water Day!

Today is #Worldwaterday. Water is life. Our human body is about 70% water. Mother Earth is about 70% water. Life is all about water! Yet tragically, water and lack of water, are becoming a source of illness and death rather than health and life. More people suffer and die every year due to lack of safe water than from all forms of violence, including war, combined! It’s estimated that by 2040 the world will have only HALF the drinking water it needs and India is on track to be there much sooner. It’s estimated we’ll have up to 700 million water refugees — 700 million people forced to flee their homes due to lack of clean water.

But much can still be done. Our own personal choices of what we eat, what we buy and what we wear can have a HUGE impact on water wastage in the world. The meat industry and the fashion industry are two of the largest causes of water pollution and water shortage in the world. The statistics will amaze you, I think. They amaze me. For example, the amount of water used in the production of one meal of hamburgers (one pound of beef) is approximately the amount of water we use in bathing for SIX months!! So is the amount of water used in the production of one pair of jeans! It means we’d have to not bathe for 6 months every time we buy a new pair of jeans or have hamburgers with our family, in order to offset the water usage! Organic cotton, for example, uses more than 90% LESS water than non-organic cotton (not to mention the fact that organic cotton doesn’t give cancer to the farmers and birth defects to their children the way the pesticide-ridden crops do)

By going vegetarian & vegan, buying organic sustainable clothing and other household products, and curbing our addiction to consumption through spiritual practices, we can become part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. I hope that you will take a few minutes and really go through these posts – please be sure to swipe through all of them.

We all work all day for our future and the future of our children. Let’s put a little of that time and energy to work for water, so that there can actually BE a future.