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Taking on Water
Taking on Water: How One Water Expert Challenged Her Inner Hypocrite, Reduced Her Water Footprint (Without Sacrificing a Toasty Shower), and Found Nirvana | Wendy J. Pabich
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When Wendy Pabich received a monthly water bill for 30,000 gallons (for a household of two people and one dog), she was chagrined. After all, she is an expert on sustainable water use. So she set out to make a change. Taking on Water is the story of the author's personal quest to extract and implement, from a dizzying soup of data and analysis, day-to-day solutions to reduce water use in her life. She sets out to examine the water footprint of the products she consumes, process her own wastewater onsite, revamp the water and energy systems in her home, and make appropriate choices in order to swim the swim. Part memoir, part investigation, part solution manual, the book is filled with ruminations on philosophy, science, facts, figures, and personal behavioral insights; metrics, both serious and humorous, to track progress; and guidelines for the general public for making small (or perhaps monumental) but important changes in their own lives. Told with humor and grace, Taking on Water offers a raw account of how deep we need to dig to change our wasteful ways.
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It‘s been a year since I read this book about #water conservation and I still think about it. The book provides a good understanding of what true intense individual water conservation looks like and probably really isn‘t for everyone. Access to clean water isn‘t a liberal or conservative issue - it‘s an everyone issue. It‘s a problem we can address as individuals, albeit on a smaller scale than in the book. #NoteworthyNovember

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Pabich uses her own experience at being a Water Deva, and how she found she wasn't doing as well as she thought, to explain how to lower your water use footprint. The books is grounded in science and she uses information that's reasonably accessible to the average person. I particularly liked that she included the water footprint of things like her electricity use and food choices. Being water-wise isn't just about short showers!

Blair_Reads Sounds like a good read! 8y
jpmcwisemorgan @Blair_Reads It was pretty good. It wasn't too preachy, although she was already pretty good with her conservation and use so for a lot of people what she and her husband changed would be a little much. There are facts presented AND she's and environmental engineer with a long history in water so she's qualified both academically and personally - but she doesn't write with too much jargon that could turn a person off. 8y
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jpmcwisemorgan

Attempting to read this on the bus might not be the best idea because today's driver is one who thinks we're in the Indy 500. This is prime reading time for me so I'm trying to hold on and read at the same time. The book is off to a bit of a whiney start, and I really hope it doesn't stay that way. One of the book club members has already read it and said it was good so....

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jpmcwisemorgan

This month's Talk Green to Me book club choice. I'm starting early in an effort to be prepared to lead the discussion. We haven't read anything on water yet and it's that time of year when talk in Central Texas turns to the level of water in various bodies of water and fire conditions.

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jpmcwisemorgan

This month's Talk Green to Me book club choice. I'm starting early in an effort to be prepared to lead the discussion. We haven't read anything on water yet and it's that time of year when talk in Central Texas turns to the level of water in various bodies of water and fire conditions.