As I've mentioned on my About Me page, something I am very passionate about is the preservation of this wonderful planet, so every Tuesday I'll be sharing news on issues I think are important and, hopefully issues you'll find interesting. There are some super duper smart people out there creating, discovering, and sharing their ideas on how to make the world better and I am going to do my best to share those ideas with you!
SO, to start it off, this wonderful water crises in California. I attended my sister's graduation on Saturday night at UC Berkeley's School of Natural Resources where she received a B.S. in Society and the Environment. The commencement speaker, who was the Secretary of Food and Agriculture for California, spoke a lot about issues facing our generation. In regards to the drought, she explained that we need to stop trying to place blame on who's at fault because that doesn't solve anything and it's a big waste of time. Instead, we need to work together in fixing the problem, which requires many things needing to be changed. Of course, she was including large scale issues like our farming practices and not simply turning off the faucet while washing dishes, which you should be doing, but we have to do our part while people like her work hard to fix those statewide dilemmas. Here are a few ways you can do your part to save water, even if you don't live in California!
{Food waste} A lot of people don't consider the amount of water it takes to grow those delicious fruits and vegetables at the grocery store, but it takes a lot. So before you go out to fill up your fridge with new groceries, try to finish everything that is perishable first. This is an easy way to avoid produce going bad and wasting the water that was used to grow it all. 
{Almond Milk} Now that a lot of people are turning to alternative sources for milk, they really just want to find an option that tastes good and is lactose free. An important thing to consider with almond milk is that it takes 1 gallon of water to grow one single almond, before even turning it into milk. So if you can, drink coconut milk, which seems to have the lease amount of an environmental impact on the land (Grist). 
{Meat} This relates to the first tip on food waste because like produce, it takes a whole bunch of water to bring that hamburger or grilled chicken to your plate. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that "it takes 4,000-18,000 gallons of water to produce one hamburger, depending on the conditions the cow is raised in" (Fast CoExist). This includes all of the water needed to feed, hydrate, and service the cow. So a few less hamburgers a year saves quite a lot of water. 
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