I just found out today is World Water Day, which you can read about at http://liveearth.org/en/liveearthblog/celebrate-world-water-day.

Water is something far too many of us take for granted, but I believe it will be one of the most important resource issues of the coming years—something that could actually dwarf oil in importance, over time. After all, we have many options to fuel our appliances, vehicles, factories, schools, and homes, among them solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, magnetism, flywheel power, etc. But without clean water, we die—end of story.

Water is so important that I devote 28 of the 111 tips in my e-book Painless Green: 111 Tips to Help the Environment, Lower Your Carbon Footprint, Cut Your Budget, and Improve Your Quality of Life-With No Negative Impact on Your Lifestyle to conserving and handling water.

I’ll give you one of those tips now, because it’s a really easy behavior to change and is one of the biggest residential wastes of water:

#60. Wet the toothbrush with a small trickle of water, and then turn the water off! Turn it back on to rinse the toothpaste off the brush at the end. A family of four could save hundreds of gallons every month just from this simple trick.

(You can get all 111 tips for the princely sum of $9.95 US).

We need to look at our “water finprint” just as hard as we look at our carbon footprint. Start saving today.