{"id":1111,"date":"2010-11-05T03:16:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T03:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=551"},"modified":"2010-11-05T03:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T03:16:56","slug":"saves-40000-gallons-of-water-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"…saves 40,000 gallons of water a year."},"content":{"rendered":"

We headed further south through Virginia on I-81, stopping at the Radford Rest Area. \u00a0 I love rest areas. \u00a0 I must have passed out campaign cards to people from at least 10 different states. \u00a0 At one point in the campaigning, after several cups of coffee that morning, I had to, well, urinate. \u00a0 And that’s another thing that’s great about rest areas, there’s a readily available place to, well, urinate. \u00a0 Turns out, not only were urinals readily accessible here (that is, after several truck drivers got through), but these urinals were also rather unique. \u00a0 They were no-flush “Sloan System Urinals.” \u00a0 According to a sign above the urinal, which you inevitably have time to read because, I mean, you’re just standing there, one Sloan urinal saves 40,000 gallons of water a year. \u00a0 There apparently is a cartridge at the base of the urinal that collects uric acid from your urine. \u00a0 The remaining liquid, which is not corrosive, then just flows down a pipe. \u00a0 Whenever I urinate, I always feel better. \u00a0 But this all made me feel doubly better. \u00a0 (If my wife Liz knew I was writing the blog entry like this…) \u00a0 I recently gave a talk at Notre Dame University. \u00a0 During the talk, I noted that some one-sixth of the world’s people don’t have access to clean drinking water. \u00a0 What’s more, we’re increasingly polluting the fresh water we do have. \u00a0 But with much more of this new sustainable water technology, we could begin polluting way<\/em> \u00a0 less, and saving money to boot. \u00a0 Money that could be funneled into Developing World clean water projects. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The late Pope John Paul II \u00a0 once said that economic justice is about considering the universal destination of the earth’s resources, especially in regard to the “common good for society’s weakest members.” \u00a0 Translated, those of us in the Developed World, must do everything we can to get clean water to our brothers and sisters who don’t have clean drinking water. \u00a0 And there are tangible steps we can take to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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