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- Rekha Murthy
- Username: rmurthy
- Location: Arlington, Massachusetts
- Joined PRX: Jan 04, 2005
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- "How much water do we use?"
- Summary: A look at how a typical American uses water - a large percentage of which is imported from outside the US!
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Great way to describe quantities
Rekha Murthy
Posted on April 01, 2009 at 11:06 AM
This piece uses sound and a touch of humor (at the gentle expense of his wife) to breathe life into a bunch of numbers that would have made my eyes glaze over in print. I appreciate, too, that the producer went beyond the standard 'take shorter showers' approach to home water consumption in order to look at the water used in the manufacturing of milk and clothing and other items. Obviously, we can't control a lot of those uses, but it does help to be aware.