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Water: so simple; so critical; so surprisingly precious.

Most everyone with access to a computer and the internet takes water for granted. For us, it’s an inexpensive commodity, never more than a few steps away. We’re not forced to share a faucet with other families, or with an entire village. We never encounter a padlocked tap. Few of us have tasted genuinely unsafe water, much less carried it for miles from some far-away creek.

But a decade into the new century, over two billion people lack access to clean drinking water. It’s estimated that by the year 2030, over two-thirds of the world’s ballooning population will live without a regular supply of safe water. Meanwhile, land development, shifting climate, and pollution threatens the freshwater resources common to us all.

We’re getting to the end of World Water Week, a good time to step back a moment and give some thought to this most basic of human needs. Water isn’t a given, nor is its supply endless. Thinking about taking your water use more seriously? Here are 20 places to start.

Have you thought about getting rid of a few things at home that you don't need anymore? well if you do, maybe you should also think about freecycling. Here is how it work, if for example you just bought a new speaker set and you are planing to throw the old one to the garbage (and eventually to a landfill) instead of this take a look to freecycle.org and find a local group, there are 4,845 groups and over 6 million members, once there you will be able to post information about your speaker set and depending on how active the group is, you will find someone that wants it in a couple of days or maybe hours, that's it!

It's a pretty simple process but still is not as common as it should, the way I see it freecycling depends on people that cares and that are willing to go a bit further than just getting rid of their problem by moving it somewhere else (landfill), the process also requires a communication platform that allows person “A” that wants to get rid of something, with person “B” that wants to have it, the website solves the second part of the riddle, but still each one of us has to give a hand to solve the first part and change people's minds.

Baking soda is a salt that looks like white fine powder, it can be found in any groceries store with any of these names: baking soda, bread soda or cooking soda.

I have been using it for the last 4 months as a deodorant and shampoo (together with beer), and it has been great! I jog and play basketball two or three times a week and it works perfectly.

As a tip, some people with delicate skin use cornstarch or cornflour when using baking soda as a deodorant to avoid irritation. Just soak the tip of your fingers and rub the baking soda under your armpits, give it a try and it will keep you safe for the rest of the day.

About the beer, you can use eggs also, both will help soften your hair while the soda will take care of cleaning your scalp. Just make sure you do this only once a week because the hair doesn't need to be cleaned that often as we usually do it while using normal shampoos.