3. Trace your drinking water from precipitation to treatment to your tap to groundwater.
4. Where does your kitchen and bathroom wastewater go? How is it treated?
5. How much water does your household consume per month?
6. How much water does your utility deliver per month to your community?
7. Is your water utility publicly or privately owned?
8. What percentage of your town's water supply goes to household use? to manufacturing? to farming? to golf courses? to mining operations? to extinguishing fires?
9. What pollutants affect your region's water supply. How are the pollutants treated to make the water safe again?
10. Does your water have PFAs? (Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, "forever" chemicals for which we currently have no way of removing from soil or bodies.)
11. Does anyone in your region re-use grey water or blackwater?
12. List three ways you could conserve water.
Back to school
"Your head can be anywhere," Peter Berg liked to say. "But your feet must be in a place." As a new school year begins, imagine a world wherein every high school graduate can trace their water from precipitation to tap and back to precipitation. Imagine a world of people aiming to live within our ecological limits, within our own bioregion's provisions.
Resources
Berg, Peter, Discovering your life-place: a first bioregional workbook, 1990.
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