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5 litres a day. 💧 Five litres is what many people living in water-short areas have no choice but to survive on. Five litres for drinking, cooking, cleaning and washing. Could you manage? Here in the UK, we use an average of 150 litres of water per person a day. In Australia, it’s approximately 500 litres, and in the US, it is a whopping 570 litres. That five-minute shower that we take for granted in the morning – that’s 40 litres of water alone! Brushing our teeth before we head off to work = 1 litre (and that’s if you remember to turn off the tap in between). It’s approximately 6 litres if you leave the tap running! It takes 6 litres to flush the toilet and another 3 litres to wash our hands afterwards! In the UK, we’re lucky enough to receive clean water with just the turn of a tap. The average walk to collect water in Africa is six kilometres, and most of the women and children doing this carry around 20 kg of water back home with them. Do you ever think about how much water you might use in a day? This World Water Week, we’re asking you to try the 5-litre challenge and see if you can use just five litres of water for all your daily activities. Let us know how you get on!

Rachel B.

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