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Plain ol' water regains top spot for Americans' drink preference

Posted Fri, 2013/04/05 - 1:57pm by RCAP

The Associated Press reported recently that water has become the top drink for Americans.

The average American consumes 44 gallons of soda a year. Soda used to be the top choice of beverage for Americans. Soda consumption peaked in 1998 at 54 gallons a year.

Now Americans are drinking an average of 58 gallons of water a year.

Read the Associated Press's article in one newspaper

 

How much "invisible" water do we consume every day?

Posted Wed, 2012/09/26 - 9:39am by RCAP

Here's a fun an interative website that shows that we actually consume large amounts of "invisible" or virtual water in the food we consume.

Go to the site

Note: This site was created by Europeans, and so units are provided in metric measurements. As a rule of thumb, there are roughly 4 liters in a gallon (the exact conversion is 1 U.S. gallon of liquid = 3.8 liters)

Information on innovative and emerging energy-conservation measures to help wastewater utilities reduce energy consumption

Posted Mon, 2010/10/18 - 11:07am by RCAP

As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) commitment to expanding cost saving, energy conservation, and efficiency programs, it is releasing a new technical document to assist municipal utility owners and operators in finding information on cost-effective energy-management and energy-conservation measures and technologies to reduce total energy usage at their wastewater treatment facilities.