Over the same time, the average amount of water people drink has increased 38 percent to about 58 gallons a year.
In fact, the amount of bottled water Americans drink has risen nearly every year for more than two decades, while the estimates of how much tap water people drink has fluctuated up and down during that time.
Our hotels just feed and water people.
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The index combines five measures: available resources, access to water, people's capacity to afford and organise water supplies, use of water for domestic, industrial and environmental purposes, and environmental management.
Severn Trent Water urged people not to panic and to do all they could to conserve water.
Water For People believes this inability to move the needle towards a world where everyone actually has water and sanitation services requires a fundamental rethink in sector practice.
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Liquid water gets people excited because wherever it is found on earth, life is found too.
After giving out some bottles of water to people running up Greenwich, I had to find Amy.
Both IHP and Ramsar have always had the nexus of water, people and wetlands at its core.
Water for People embraces collaboration so much it is written into its mission.
"I would wonder whether the Encarta would water down people's expectations of dictionaries, " says John Simpson, chief editor of the 20-volume OED.
These then link to a web-based dashboard where survey data can be tracked on Google Maps and Google Earth, according to Water for People.
"Lots of organizations do monitoring and that's great, but it tends to be a very slow process, " said Keri Kugler, Water for People's senior manager of programmatic data.
U.S.-based NGO Water for People is helping lead the charge in this area with the development of a new system called FLOW (Field Level Operations Watch).
With bottled water, people tend to buy whatever is cheapest.
Water for People recently teamed up with Akvo, a Dutch open source software company, to help develop the FLOW's (now officially called Akvo FLOW) features and international reach.
Building on its relationships throughout the developing world, Water for People partnered with Akvo to develop an Internet-based system for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on water and sanitation projects.
She also sponsored social responsibility programs, including one that delivered a billion liters of safe drinking water to people around the world and another that vaccinated children in Third World countries.
Ned Breslin joined Water For People as Director of International Programs in 2006, and was appointed CEO in 2009 after close to 20 years working in the water and sanitation sector in Africa.
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And while WaterHealth makes sure there is someone in place locally who can maintain its systems, Jody Camp , a manager at the nonprofit Water For People, argues that such skilled labor often migrates to better wages elsewhere.
And though WaterHealth makes sure that there is someone in place locally who can maintain its systems, Jody Camp, a manager at the nonprofit Water For People, argues that such skilled workers often migrate to better wages elsewhere.
It may improve or even transform customer service or remote plant management, but it does not disrupt the basic function of providing water to people, nor will it transform customer needs such as drinking, showering or washing their SUVs.
But he says that due to a lack of water, many people have been using buckets of water instead.
By 2035, Thames Water is expecting people to use 135 litres of water each a day, compared with a previous forecast of 157 litres.
Prevention strategies include filtering drinking water and discouraging people with Guinea worm from wading in water.
There was always gossip at the water cooler about what office people wouldn't change the water cooler when it was empty horrible people who would pretend not to notice and skulk away, like they'd just doored a Benz in the parking lot.
Nearly 1 billion people still do not have access to improved sources of drinking water and there are more people without access to tap water in cities today than there were at the end of the 1990s.
One of the most frequently forgotten dimensions of the water crisis is the fact that 900 million people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion people do not have basic sanitation.
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But it's the water that they're really concerned about, that if people start drinking the water that's coming out of the wells, which people has been doing, that they're going to get sick from that.
Dr. FRED CERISE (Louisiana Health Department): We can tell you how to be safe with the water and boil it before you ingest it, used bottled water, but to the extent that people ingest the water anyway, they're going to be at risk.
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