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Why care about your water footprint? © “Your water footprint” by Stephen Leahy. Groundwater comes from aquifers that take thousands of years to fill. Globally, aquifers are being drained faster than...

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Anyone living on the West Coast and desert regions of the United States is familiar with the concept of water scarcity. As global warming, food and commodity production, and population increases...

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“a brilliant and shocking exposé”   — Publishers Weekly   Environmental journalist Leahy delivers a brilliant and shocking exposé on precisely how much water we use, not just for personal hygiene but...

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Award-winning environmental journalist launches book that will change the way you drink by Lisha Van Nieuwenhove Did you know that the average North American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 7,600...

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“Your Water Footprint” – “Tu Huella Hídrica” Por Dirk Hoffmann, 17 de Noviembre de 2014 Acaba de salir el nuevo libro “Your Water Footprint” (“Tu Huella Hídrica”) del periodista ambiental canadiense...

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Water is far more valuable and useful than oil Stephen Leahy The water footprint of a half-litre bottle of water is 5.5 litres – yet well over a billion people live in areas with chronic scarcity...

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8 Shocking Facts About Water Consumption

Average water footprint of a regular sized bottle of cola By Anastasia Pantsios for EcoWatch Water is a finite resource. And its preciousness has been driven home by water wars in California, where...

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Your Water Footprint Author’s Upcoming Appearances

Stephen will be doing more than 20 talks in 2015 about about Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts Behind Our Thirst for Earth’s Most Precious Resource,  as well as about the upcoming international...

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“We don’t realize our entire society runs on water. It doesn’t run on oil”

THE VIRTUAL WORLD OF WATER A 9 minute talk about the ‘rhino in the room’ of water scarcity and developing “water vision” to see the hidden world of water that’s all around us. Stephen Leahy: THE...

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How You Consume 8,000 Litres of Water a Day

This is the first page of Your Water Footprint

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Book Award-winning Environmental Journalist and Author

Stephen will be doing more talks in 2016 about about his prize-winning book Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts Behind Our Thirst for Earth’s Most Precious Resource (Best Science Book in Canada)....

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World Water Day: The cost of cotton exports in water-challenged India

 More than 100 million people in India do not have access to safe water. Severe water scarcity in India is exacerbated by the cotton industry. Concerns are high, but are businesses, consumers and...

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Book Critics Love “Your Water Footprint”– Winner, Best Science Book

“…a brilliant and shocking exposé on precisely how much water we use…”  — Publishers Weekly “This book is unique in its handling of a complex topic…the content is timely, important, and fascinating” —...

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Interviews/Articles About YOUR WATER FOOTPRINT

The Surprising Water Footprints of 15 Common Things  — mental_floss “Our Real and Virtual Water Footprint: A Green Interview with Stephen Leahy” — DVD, 63 minutes – Films Media Group Your Water...

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YWF’s Water-Saving Tip of the Week: Reduce Food Waste

Cut your family’s water consumption by 475,000 litres (125,000 gal) a year Forty percent of the food produced in the United States never gets eaten - NRDC When food is wasted the enormous amounts of...

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How Shopping at Thrift Stores Saves Water – YWF’s Water-Saving Tips of the Week

Infographic from Your Water Footprint History in Your Jeans One way or another your jeans came from the Indus Valley in Pakistan and northeast India. The Indus is a huge valley and river system that...

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What’s Behind the Coming Water Crisis?

Water crisis are the biggest global risk we face between now and 2025 according to World Economic Forum. Water scarcity isn’t just about water to drink and grow food but water to produce energy, to...

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