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Eray Cayli - Turkey

Current situation As we approach the end of our decade, threats caused by water related environmental issues are continuously rising. Most campaigns that address the issue, leave it at the "turn taps off while brushing teeth" or "take 4 minute showers" level. However, what needs to be done is establishing sustainable lifestyle in our over-consumptious urban world.

A third of all UK energy is consumed in homes. At home food is turned into meals; dirty dishes, clothes and bodies become clean; and cosy, comfortable settings are created. From an environmental perspective, the most significant forms of resource consumption take place in two places: the kitchen and bathroom. Within them, domestic appliances have become necessary through their time and labour-saving functions... water consumption in the home has increased by 70% over the last thirty years. In both kitchens and bathrooms, radical but often invisible changes have occurred in the ways people behave. For example, domestic laundry has increased five fold over the last century, and people in Britain are showering more than ever before. Around twenty-seven litres per day, or eighteen percent of average daily domestic water consumption per capita is devoted to bathing and showering in the UK.

Taking these facts into account, it is clear that these two parts of our homes, will consume water more than ever.

We are also facing the social consequences of globalization, besides those that are economical and environmental. The fact that human beings are getting lonelier is one of these consequences. Our fast urban lives have isolated us as micro-parts of the system, and while we roll in subway trains between our two cells (home and workplace), we have forgotten what it felt like talking to other people, and sharing things with them. Neighborliness and friendship are values that evaporate as our world gets warmer.

Fonte:http:www.core77.com

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