Water Savings Lessons from Outer Space
If you think there is a water shortage on Earth, consider the situation of an astronaut in space. What you have with you on your ship is all that you have.
Limited supply forces astronauts to use, re-cycle and re-use the water. A new eight minute video called ‘Out of the World Water Conservation’ compares the conservation efforts of astronauts to what we terrestrial beings can do on earth.
As the video flips between images of space, rockets, astronauts bouncing in zero-gravity and scenes of subdivisions, drought tolerant plants and dry landscapes, the narrator discusses the connection between water conservation tactics in space and how they can be adapted on earth.
It turns out that astronauts get about a gallon of water for bathing on space missions, versus the 13 gallons a shower typically uses on earth.