As half of England enters drought status, are we entering a global water crisis?

[crissindahouse]

Netyaroze said:

crissindahouse said:

we just waste too much. i read anywhere about the water consume in england which was even higher than in germany and i think we waste a lot of water here. everyone wants to have his garden greener than green, many still have very old showers which waste a lot and then golf... golf is horrible, just look in spain where farmers have no water anymore but they have 100 golf clubs with a wonderful green lol.

i think we could easily reduce the consume drastically if we just would try to. but too many don't care if they can save some litres here and there very easily (industry as well)

Golf is important. BTW: Germany uses relatively small amounts of water compared to other first world countrys US wins followed by Australia . Uk needs less Water then Germany per capita it has less Industry .

i meant households with the higher water consume excluded industry. sure industry is another point which is maybe much more important but the number i was talking about was only households.

i just found this in german, on the right site you see the chart with daily consume per capita but numbers are a little bit old:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserverbrauch

i read it in the newspaper or so with actual numbers which were a little bit lower.

i think people in countries like england, germany or france could easily reduce the consume 30 litres per day or so (if we would really try even more). usa much much more like everything they could reduce a lot if they just would care more about... if this would be the case in england alone you would consume 1.5 billion litres water less per day. in germany 2.5 billion.

i know industry is using much more but this would still help and i think the industry would have a big potential as well to spend less water.