Back from the dead.  Life is settling down again, so I’m trying to get back into posting at my blog.  While I was watching the History Channel today, something struck me as I watched the “Universe” series.

When designing a space station, scientists measured how much water you could realistically cut out of a person’s daily usage?  It’s well known that we in the West use far too much water for everything from bathing, to dishes, laundry, and so on.  Their finding?

That while on the space station, astronauts could use as little as 3 gallons of water a day and still not have any real problems in terms of cleanliness and social comfort.

Obviously astronauts don’t have to worry about the same things we do – laundry is handled differently, food is handled differently.  But if astronauts on a space station can use as little as 3 gallons of water a day, shouldn’t we here on earth be able to commit ourselves to using only, say, 10 gallons a day?  It would take a drastic change of habit, but it would be possible.  We don’t do laundry or dishes on a daily basis.  If we committed to things like sponge baths, and thought about the way we do things such as washing our hair, we should be able to cut back our water usage drastically.

Just something to think about.