Let me start off by saying I was surprised by the results of my consumption journal. After spending an entire day trying to track everything I used I noticed how long my list got. I could not believe the amount of times I did things, or the amount of times I drank or ate etc. So I made a few graphs to record my work. One thing I wanted to bring up was the amount of times I used water. I think water was something I used the most in my day. I made a chart to show how many times I used water, and in what area of my life. I divided the information into four different categories: using the washroom, hygiene, drinking, and cooking.
As you can see I use water quite often in one day for many different reasons. It made me wonder about the actual amount of water I used and I wish I was able to somehow measure the amount of water used. It would be interesting to see how much water I used in a week, and then in a year. If you could get an average for the amount of water used by everyone in canada in one year I'm sure it would be a startling difference then the amount used in other parts of the world, like third world countries. Then it makes me wonder if third world countries even have access to fresh water, and if they did, would they use it for all their areas of life like I have here? It' s pretty interesting to see how people are surviving in other places of world with a lot less of everything we use. I think it goes to show how the North American lifestyle can be quite lavish, even if it is with something so simple as water. And I think that is something I really realized through the exercise of the consumption journal. Sure I knew all along everything I was using and what was essential and non-essential, but it was until I had written it down and actually saw my list that I realized how much I use alone.
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