World Water Day

So what are YOU doing today for World Water Day?
Well I'm not gonna shower or let the water run when I brush my teeth. I'm still however gonna drink water during the day, but while I do so I will cherish it even more, since I know others might not have so plenty of it and you never know what the future holds.

I mean, we probably all had our parents force us into finishing off our brussle sprouts by saying "you know children in Africa don't even has this much to eat in a week! So you better be thankful and eat it all up." I wonder, does it make us better people when we actually cherish things we have more of than others? I don't know. Does it help for people like you and me to save water on March 22nd? Does it really make a difference? To the dehydrated people in the desert and to our dry-looking future? I understand that World Water Day is also a day for conferences, scientific and political and to make people more aware. I don't know if people read their water scales at the end of a month and realize how much liters they have actually used. I mean, I would also like to not use tabwater to flush the toilet but where to put the extra water tank to re-use dishwater or shower water? Too expansive, and too much of a hassle. Our toilet does not even have a stop button. Can we change that? No, there is no room at all to built in anything like that. Well actually there could be since behind it is the chimney shaft, but we are moving so we're not going to bother. Does it bother me that we're wasting so much water? Of course it does. Do I feel guilty for using that much water? Yes. Will I do something about it? I doubt it.

In Holland people usually don't recycle. I mean, we already collect glass and throw that in the containers, but paper, for example gets picked up once a month and we'd have to store it in our tiny house fo that entire time. Of course in our new house (if we ever get that) we'll have a shed and then we'd do it, but right now, again, we'd have to make concessions, so we don't. We throuw paper out with the garbage. We suck!

At least we don't pollute the air too much. The only things we do is breathe out CO2 and burn gas. We don't have a stinky car nor do we smoke. We also never throw garbage on the street or into nature. So that's good I guess.

Anyways. Happy World Water Day, if you can say it that way. I wonder what's happy about it. I don't know. Let's be good for at least one day a year.