{"id":7457,"date":"2013-02-15T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:03","slug":"fewer-people-using-more-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2013\/02\/15\/fewer-people-using-more-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer People Using More Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than one billion people use less than five gallons of water each day.\u00a0 The average American uses about 152 gallons per day.\u00a0 That&#8217;s quite a difference.<\/p>\n<p>That five gallons of water used by each of those one billion people is also likely to be contaminated with bacteria or chemicals.\u00a0 The cost of accessing clean water is often out of reach of those people &#8211; if it&#8217;s even available.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers on the infographic can be depressing, but we can help by <a title=\"Blue Living Ideas Charity: Water\" href=\"http:\/\/mycharitywater.org\/blue-living-ideas-well-two\" target=\"_blank\">funding the building of wells<\/a> in places that have no clean drinking water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Water-Infographic-500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7458\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2013\/02\/15\/fewer-people-using-more-water\/water-infographic-500\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Water-Infographic-500.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,807\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3X Fewer People Using 8X More Water\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;3X Fewer People Using 8X More Water&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Water-Infographic-500-185x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Water-Infographic-500.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7458\" alt=\"3X Fewer People Using 8X More Water\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Water-Infographic-500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Water-Infographic-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Water-Infographic-500-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"3X Fewer People Using 8X More Water\" href=\"http:\/\/dailyinfographic.com\/3x-fewer-people-using-8x-more-water-infographic\/water-infographic-2\" target=\"_blank\">Infographic of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than one billion people use less than five gallons of water each day.  The average American uses about 152 gallons per day.  That&#8217;s quite a difference.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[2854],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Water-Infographic-500.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}