Do you pay attention to how you use water?

Try doing the math: 220 litres per day multiplied by 8 billion. Can you calculate it? No, due to the fact that normal calculators, like the ones present in our phones, do not have enough zeros. In other words, there's too much water. Water conservation is now on every governments’ agenda, and major changes need to be made at the geopolitical level in this regard. Let's try not to think, on a small scale. Which daily behaviours can we adopt to avoid wasting water?

1. Let's begin from the basics: closing water when we are not using it. I bet you are all thinking of this: when we wash our teeth, we have the unbearable habit of leaving the water tap open. 
2. Do not buy too many clothes: did you know that to make a pair of jeans, 10,000 litres of water are needed? And that to make a t-shirt, 2,500 litres are required? The textile industry is responsible by 20% of the global water waste. 
3. Eat less meat. It is a very difficult estimate, but to produce 1kg of beef, from 5,000 to 15,000 litres of water are required. 
4. Pay attention to the water flush; if you still do not have the double flush button for different water doses, install it now. Whenever we use the water flush, 12-15 litres of water are actually used.
5. Only use the washing machine and dishwasher when they are completely full, due to the fact that for a full washing cycle (whether used completely full or half empty) 80-120 litres of water are used.

There are many other tips to follow, such as reusing the water used for cooking vegetables, to water plants or turning off the general faucet when away for a few days. We collect a few. And what about you? What do you do to save water?