Water conservation ideas

I know some of my "there is no such thing as global warming" friends might call this stuff hogwash, but I take a different tack -- why not conserve precious resources because, well, they're precious? It's the economist in me: How to ration scarce resources?

So here are a few tips from Utility Services of Alaska. Plus, besides saving scarce resources, it saves you MONEY. Who doesn't like having more money to spend on discretionary things?

• Check your toilet tank at least twice a year.
• Turn the water off. Don't let it run when you wash, brush your teeth, or shave.
• Take shorter showers or a bath.
• Run full loads of dishes and clothes.
• While waiting for water to turn hot or cold, catch the lukewarm water in a container to water plants.
• Be smart, fix leaks.

Just a few tips, more here.

Bottled water: Healthy choice or stupid, vain, wasteful indulgence?

I guess by the title you can guess my answer.

Some interesting tidbits from the article:

• At Whole Foods (NASDAQ:WFMI), the upscale emporium of the organic and exotic, bottled water is the number-one item by units sold.
• Bottled water is often simply an indulgence, and despite the stories we tell ourselves, it is not a benign indulgence. We're moving 1 billion bottles of water around a week in ships, trains, and trucks in the United States alone. That's a weekly convoy equivalent to 37,800
  18-wheelers delivering water. (Water weighs 81/3 pounds a gallon. It's so heavy you can't fill an 18-wheeler with bottled water--you have to leave empty space.)
• And in Fiji, a state-of-the-art factory spins out more than a million bottles a day of the hippest bottled water on the U.S. market today, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have safe, reliable drinking water.

Message in a Bottle - Bottled Water - Luxury Water - Mineral Water