A Challenge Fit For Blog Action Day

You would not BELIEVE my excitement when I opened my blogger dashboard to sign on and let everyone know about my challenge for this week!



I am jumping ahead of myself so let me lay down the Challenge Masters' challenges:

• Conserve water by taking two minute showers.


• Buy and eat food as if I were using food stamps.


• Don't use my cell phone for a week.

Right now Athens, Ga. is in the midst of a very serious drought and the water supply could be gone by Christmas. Some residents of Athens have been responding to water restrictions with outrage. Others just refuse to see the urgency of the situation.

So this week I am going to do my part to conserve water. While I train in an Olympic size tank of water twice a day for swim practice, and there is nothing I can do to change that, I can certainly cut down on shower time, hand washing time, running the dishwasher and flushing the toilet.

How perfect this challenge was when I saw that October 15 is Blog Action Day. It is an opportunity for bloggers to blog about environmental issues all on the same day. Here is the video.

Yaro Starack in Australia seems to be having a pretty similar situation as we are here in Athens, and here is some advice I found for everyday conservation of water.

I know by cutting my showers down to two minutes is not going to restore the seven foot drop in the Bear Creek Reservoir where Athens gets its water. However, if everyone joined together to conserve we could all make a difference, so maybe I will inspire someone to change.