How Much Water Do You Use?

August 4, 2010

Interview with Ken Hair VP Engineering for Water Pik

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Mike Carruthers:
Conserving water is important not because there’s less of it than there used to be; in fact the water supply remains constant.

Ken Hair:
The problem with water (and this is a human geography problem) is the growing population.

Ken Hair Vice President of Engineering for Water Pik has been working on water conservation issues along with the EPA.

Even in the United States since 1970 we’ve added 100 million people and most of that growth has been in the South and in the West where there wasn’t a lot of water there to begin with.

You may not realize exactly how much water you use every day.

Everybody uses around 100 gallons a day. And what we use most of this water for is cleaning. If you look at the big three issues that take water in your house it’s taking a shower, washing your clothes and flushing toilets. Those consume 65% of the water we use.

But just about everything requires water. Take a simple egg…

In order to create an egg that you eat at breakfast it takes 120 gallons of water. And that water is used all along that egg's development from creating the feed that the chicken eats as well as the water that the chicken consumes.

As the population continues to grow, water becomes more scarce and we’ll all have to do our part.

The statistics show that because there’s so many of us (300 million of us), if we all just cut back a little bit, it all adds up.
 

To hear the complete unedited interview, click here