Hi, my name is Kenny Yu and I am from the Environmental Science Academy at Oakland High School. I believe one way to lower your carbon footprint is to conserve water. The average gallons of water used in America is 17.2 gallons and some people take two showers per day.I think people should take less and shorter showers or people can turn off the water when it's running and they're not using it. This can save a lot of water in a lot of cities.

This is an awesome idea Kenny! Using less water is definitely something all Americans should try to do and taking fewer and shorter showers is a superb example of how to do that! thank you for sharing and encouraging us to use less water!

I agree with you! If each person took a shower that was just a few minutes shorter, so much water would be saved. I also agree with you when you said people don't need to shower more than once a day. Showering excessively is so wasteful! If someone still wanted to take a long time in the shower, they should turn off the water when they aren't using it.

This is such an awesome idea, its really cool how you included how much gallons of water people use to take showers!

Nice ideas! It's true that we should try to use less water. I also think that people should take less showers. Good evidence using numbers! Good Job!

Yes this is amazing.

Nice Kenny this is wonderful. We all need water and I don't think we should be wasting water like that so I think this is a great idea.

I agree with you on shortening our showers Kenny, I also included that on my post. It would reduce carbon tremendously if we conserved our everyday water.

This is such a great idea and I think we should use less wage. Good evidence using the numbers

I think this is a good idea because people in America are using so much water. People can also not run the water while brushing your teeth or when washing dishes by hand not use water unless you are rinsing the dishes off.

I agree with your idea some people need to cut down on there water.

I agree, i do know some people like that,and good job pointing out evidence for you claims.

This is one thing that I am already extremely mindful of. I always make sure to take shorter showers and turn off the water when I am not using it. I try to cut down my water use as much as possible by only using it when I really need to. It is crazy to look at another country and realize that even though you try to use less water already, you still use more than double than what people use there.

I believe it is a good idea to cut down on showers and conserve water. We only have so much freshwater so we need to be smart when we use it.

I think this is a good idea and another is when you're washing dishes not to leave the water running the entire time.

I feel the same. My sister takes really long showers so she uses a lot of water in the process. My family runs the dishwasher instead of washing the dishes by hand so that helps conserve some water. When I brush my teeth I turn the water off to conserve water.

I totally agree with you on conserving water because we use so much water in the United States a year that its crazy. If we could conserve it a lot better by turning it off when brushing our teeth or take time out of our showers, we would be saving so much. There are people in other countries that wish they had the amount of water we did. Its sad on how much water we use because there are so many people in other countries that could use it. My family limits ourselves in the showers to about 5 minutes or less and we turn off the water while brushing teeth and between washing dishes to help out. I totally agree with you again on your part of conserving water and think a lot more people should do it.

I agree because sometimes I take 2 showers every day because of gym, and I clean a lot so I use a lot of water then too. I need to reduce my use of water.