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Take action today
| Repair or replace leaking fixtures - A small steady leak can waste 60,000 gallons of water per year. Such a leak can go undetected in a flush urinal because the water is spread across the back of the bowl and difficult to see. A stuck flush valve on one urinal can waste 1,700 gallons per day! The only way to guarantee that there are no leaks and no wasted water is to replace flush urinals with waterfree urinals. |
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| Use reuseable drinking bottles - It takes 3 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water (2 liters to manufacture the plastic bottle and 1 liter to fill it). Each re-use of a bottle saves 2 liters of water (Pacific Institute). |
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| Install waterfree urinals - An average of 40,000 gallons per urinal, per year, are saved with waterfree urinals. Besides saving water, greenhouse gases are reduced. Water transport and treatment is an energy intensive process. On average, every billion gallons of water saved avoids the generation of 18 million pounds of CO2 (Pacific Institute). |
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Celebrate and inspire change
Earth Day is not a single day...
- Spring equinox (March in the northern hemisphere and September in the southern hemisphere). This date is observed by the United Nations and numerous countries around the world.
- April 22 was first celebrated as Earth Day at the call of Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970. The first celebration in 1970 drew participation of over 20 million people and has since grown to be recognized by more than 500 million people in 175 countries.
- The objective of Earth Day is to stimulate a persistent reverence for life sustaining resources, every day of the year.
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