Water AP #1 RBL

 In this action project I made an attempt to show how much water I use compared to an average person in the United States, and to a person in Norway.

My main process for doing this project was trying to first figure out how much water I use in a day. I found out that I use 106 gallons of water everyday. When I compare my water use to the average American’s regular water use, I use less. This makes me somewhat surprised because I wouldn’t think that I would use so much water in a day. Now that I know how much water I use I’m not too surprised that the average American uses more than I do because they may have more ways to use it. The average American uses 152 gallons per day. Some ways Americans could use water are using it to water plants, using it as a sprinkler for fun, or using it for washing dishes with a dishwasher. Even though I use less water than the average American, I do use more water than the average person in Norway which is 79 gallons per day. During our in person field experience last week I carried 3.75 gallons back from the river, to the old GCE building. If I was carrying that amount of water everyday, it would take me 2 days to collect the water I would need for just one day! If I had to do this every day, I would try to prioritize saving as much  water as possible. Saving water is very important because we have a very limited amount of water in the world. In the United States the average person generally uses 152 gallons of water a day. That’s a lot of water! We can try to save water by taking quicker showers, hand washing dishes, and by eating things that don’t require a lot of water to make.

Below is my infographic that will make reading this a lot easier to understand. This shows my water use, and compares it to the amount of water other people in different countries use.