- Stop buying bottled water
- Buy and use a rain barrel
- Hardscape in front of your house, or plant indigenous plants (a "rain garden")
The most important thing you can do to "be green" is to stop buying bottled water.
- It uses petroleum to market, manufacture, and ship
- Bottled water companies express corporate power in unsavory ways throughout the developing world
- Corporations are seeking to seize hold of and privatize the world's acquifers, selling back to us what should be a basic human right--the right to survive
- Corporations have no incentive to keep our water clean and to use it sustainably
If you would refuse to allow air to be privatized, you should resist the privitization of water.
Lots more coming on this page.
In the meantime,check out
http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/actionplan/index.html
Blue Gold asks these basic questions:
Where does your water come from, specifically:
"What watershed do you live in?"
Here's what I found. It seems that we straddle the
Middle James-Willis Watershed and the
Lower James Watershed
"Who owns your water? Are they taking care of it?"
Here is a link to various groups helping to monitor our water:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/water/adopt.nsf/SearchAdopt?SearchView&Query=(02080205)
The
James River Association website is chockful of information about our glorious James River.
Calculate your impact on the River here:
http://www.jamesriverassociation.org/get-involved/runoff-calculator/
