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18 Feb 2012
A bad thing:
The United States, which has only 5 percent of the world’s population, is the third-largest consumer of freshwater, after the vastly more populated China and India. Per-capita water consumption in the United States was 2,842 cubic meters a year, or 100,364 cubic feet, in comparison with 1,089 cubic meters for China and 1,071 for India.
Read more: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/tracking-how-the-world-guzzles-water/


