by Carol Natoli

Created on: April 29, 2009   Last Updated: May 07, 2009

"What difference will it make if a few people turn off the water when brushing their teeth?" you say. "How could that save the planet and affect the availability of drinking water throughout the world?" Well, if everyone had that attitude, then nothing would change; remember, however, what becomes a habit for one person or one family, can become a habit change for others. All it takes, is talking and passing the word, the idea, the suggestion, and over time new ideas become a lifestyle-change and a passion to change the world, one household at a time! If one were to think back years ago, when the word, "recycling" was first used and implemented by many, so many people thought that "hassle" would be the word to explain, that additional thing to do. Nowadays, it is just what people do, without a thought, the same way they automatically put on seat belts, in a world when cars did not even have them installed, at one time. Do not diminish the teaching that things become automatic, when we retrain ourselves and become a habit, "like brushing your teeth".

When individuals make a conscience effort to conserve water, it can only help in making more drinking water available to others in the world! It has been heard that some people compare that to the old adage from the sixties of the "clean plate club"; if food was to wasted, the amount could have made a difference to feed children in Africa. People never threw out food so they ate it to alleviate guilt; after all, they did not want children to starve! Somehow, the logic got turned into an encyclical problem of children getting obese, with the problem of children still starving, not yet solved. Those are the people that seem to make the connection to the paralleled scenario, but it is like comparing apples to oranges.

Anyone who is cognizant of conversational issues does not over-analyze the logic that this writer is projecting. It seems to be reasonable to believe that if one does not drive much and chooses to ride a bike to save money on gas, then that person is saving a few gallons of gas and the cash that he or she is not spending. If a person using a measuring spoon to make coffee, or measures laundry detergent when washing clothes, there is no waste. More pots of coffee can be made with the same can, if there is no excess waster, and it stands to reason that more loads of clothes can be laundered. How is an individual conserving water different? There is no difference, for if stands to reason, with

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