Water: We Take It For Granted

Something everyone could do that could make a difference would be, simple as it sounds, to turn off the tap while you're brushing your teeth. All that clean warm water sliding down the drain.. not necessary.
Also, TURN OFF YOUR LIGHTS!
If you're not in the room, then why are the lights on? Wasting energy is not the way to go green

Besides water, we take for granted all this technology and food that we have within our reach.

I'm so glad to be living in an abundant country, but it also makes me feel bad that we have so much and yet we're still so ungrateful.

I love your article; it reminded me to start the new year with fresh eyes (and new ways of taking showers too)!

I love this article. I have been criticized on being too "environmentally" friendly. But I honestly think that global warming is real and it is a huge issue. I cannot believe how much water is being wasted by leaving the tap on while doing something else or younger kids just throwing water bottles around and letting the water spill out into nothing. When I see that, I think to myself that all that water going on the ground can be used for hydrating kids from third world countries that doesn't have fresh, clean, and abundant water as we do here in Canada. Other big issues that concern me is how some people do not recycle paper! I see them just crumpling it up and tossing it into a nearby garbage can or worse, just throwing it on the ground and waiting for someone to pick it up for them. Honestly, there will be consequences to their actions. What if something started to happen to the earth just like in the movie "The day after tomorrow" and I wonder if they would regret ever neglecting the earth/nature/their recourses and would they then realize what they are taking for granted? I'll leave it at that, but anything environmental or related to people taking things for granted can make me rant on and on. But of course even the biggest environmentally friendly people do do things from time to time that isn't considered to be eco-friendly. (That doesn't include not recycling, because even I; a mediocre eco-friendly person recycle).

Many people need to realize how much we take for granted and how lucky we really are where we live. the fact that we have so much at our disposal is amazing! i am able to walk outside my door and drive my car to work, which is powered by gas and are created abundantly. I work at a grocery store where food is readily supplied in vast quantities and we can pick what we would like to eat for the next week. Everywhere we go and everything we do is associated with something that we take for granted. So much of what we use in daily life is supplied for us at such a constant state that we hardly ever have to think about where it's coming from or why we are lucky to have it.

You're totally right and it's nice to hear someone address an issue that isn't really talked about here in the Lower Mainland. We're so fortunate with the amount of clean water we are surrounded with and it's something many people don't acknowledge. We talk so much about global warming but you never hear about the huge amounts of water that we fully take for granted.