Green Girl

Living in the drought-plagued Southeastern United States has turned me on to a whole new world of areas where I can live cleaner and greener in my own daily life. From the mandatory water restrictions to the programs that are encouraging us to upgrade our shower heads and incorporate devices like rain barrels into our homes and gardens, the city governments have been doing an impressive job of handling the dangers we’ve been facing. Minimal efforts, such as turning the shower nozzle off when you’re lathering yourself up with soap, can save as much as 15,000 gallons of water a year if you do it diligently.

This drought is just one more example of how our present crisis causes us finally to take some action to change our ways. It is regrettable that it took a crisis that threatened our well-being to make us change, but what is important is to realize that we are changing.

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