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What Makes Things Funny & Really Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About Water

Something You Should Know

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The Rise of Urban Water Use in California

80% of the water that we use in California goes to the agricultural sector and interestingly enough it's about the same worldwide. Distilled water is appropriate for your iron because you don't want those minerals to come out on your clothes or clean your contact lenses. The idea of taking a shorter shower because there's a drought emergency, that's sort of a temporary behavioral thing that we're asked to do when there's a severe drought. That's conservation rather than efficiency. Conservation is cutting back our water use in an emergency.

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