PRECIOUS: Water is the world's most precious resource. Besides being essential for life, it stabilizes our climate, irrigates our crops, and lights our cities. Although 80% of the Earth's surface is covered by water, only 0.5% is usable fresh water. Of the available fresh water worldwide, 5% is used by households, 75% by agriculture, and 20% by industry.

Humans are just one aspect of the larger ecosystem that is Planet Earth, and we share this resource with plant and animal species that also need water to survive.

Clean water is becoming harder and harder to find; thus, we must take steps to protect and improve this resource. The impacts of pollution and population on water is the responsibility of us all.

credit: Boulder County Colorado

ENERGY: Water consumption and energy usage are for ever linked: water consumption has a Carbon Footprint. Saving water is often the best and most efficient way of saving energy!

Getting water from its source to your fixture is energy-intensive. This process of extraction, conveyance, storage, treatment, distribution, on-site pumping, heating or cooling, wastewater collection and wastewater treatment\discharge can account for as much as 19% of a state’s electricity use (as per Natural Resource Defense Council).

Greywater Recycling = CleanTech

One of the oldest and most widespread form of CleanTech is the windmill devised to pump water from the ground. The pioneers who built this country understood the relationship between energy and water.