I know that on some of these high-falutin, fancy-type blogs, 'guest bloggers' occasionally make an appearance. When opportunity knocked, I decided to take advantage and try some of that myself. My son Gabriel has agreed to share what he wrote for his grade 9 geography class, in which the pupils are studying environmental conservation. Gabriel decided to jazz up his contribution a little; I do hope his teacher appreciates the effort.
Water Usage:
-The average Canadian uses 10,000 litres of water each month (which is approximately 41,666.67 cups of tea).
-A ten minute shower can use up to 300 litres of water. A two minute shower, therefore, can use up to 60 litres (which is approximately 250 cups of tea)
-Up to 30% of water in pipes is lost from leakages (approximately 0% of that is tea).
-An average adult male needs to drink around 3 litres of water a day to be healthy, while an adult female needs around 2.2 litres a day. Most Canadians drink up to 5 litres a day (approximately 20.8 cups of tea)
-Canada ranks second among countries in the highest daily water usage per-capita, using about 149,600,000,000 litres a day, or 149 billion, 600 million litres (623 trillion, 333 million, 333 thousand, 333 cups of tea)
-Around 9% of Canada is water. Exactly 0% of Canada is tea.
