Did you flush today?

Ok, so I'm assuming that we all went to the bathroom at some point today, and after watching shows like National Geographic's Human Footprint and reading magazines on global warming, I am now seeing a much bigger picture of what it means to leave a footprint on the Earth....  and I did not realize how much of a footprint I'm personally leaving on my favorite environment - the ocean and coral reefs.

Here's a whopper of a factoid - 7500 gallons of water is used per household per month in Florida.  That's an average of 250 gallons a day PER HOUSE.  Anyone who's ever been to Florida knows that this is the suburb capital.  Between the track housing and the high rise condos, there are alot of toilets in this area.  And most of us never stop to think what happens to that water when we flush, when we brush our teeth, when we take a shower.... but can we, the already financially strapped citizens of Florida afford to fix this?  Can we afford NOT to fix this?

I've posted to two discussion groups on this issue because, bottom line, we're either going to kill ourselves with pollution or we're going to kill ourselves from the financial strain of fixing this particular problem  Check out South Florida Gaia or Climate Change.  You can comment here or comment on the pods - but please comment.