Water: A Precious, and Wasted, Resource
By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 02 November 2007 12:08 pm ET
NEW YORK — On an illuminated wall in the American Museum of Natural History, three clear plastic tubes about 5-feet long and a couple inches in diameter automatically fill with water. In the first tube, a small amount shoots up, barely visible at the tube’s bottom, representing the meager 3 gallons of water that the average Ethiopian subsists on daily. The middle tube fills about one quarter full, showing the more bountiful 30 gallons of water the average Briton uses in a day.
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