Oct 15 2010

Searching for water

Posted by Evelyn Tapscott in Gardening Posts

I have been struggling with the topic of water.  It’s something I take for granted.  The turn of a tap or the push of a lever and there it is, clean, safe and refreshing. I have to admit that I have never thought much about where the water I use so easily comes from or even how much there is.   So, if nothing else, Blog Action Day 2010 has made me aware of my own ignorance.

As a landscape designer I am familiar with water shortages to keep our gardens alive, but I never considered that the water we use for that and so many other things is potable so I decided to find out about drinking water.   My search for drinking water became the story… here’s how that happened and what I learned along the way.

My search…

Here are the cold, hard facts via Good magazine.

And a dose of reality.

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