I've been getting updates from the friendly folks at www.useitwisely.com around water resources and the most recent tweet I found was the "100 Ways to Conserve" list that they compiled most recently.

I must say, I truly appreciate these helpful hints and here are a few that I haven't heard in the past:

#10: For cold drinks keep a pitcher of water in the refrigerator instead of running the tap. This way, every drop goes down you and not the drain.

#17: Collect the water you run to rinse off veggies and water the houseplants with it.

#28: Put food coloring in your toilet tank. If it seeps into the toilet bowl without flushing, you have a leak. Fixing it can save up to 1,000 gallons a month.

#61: Next time you add or replace a flower or shrub, choose a low water use plant for year-round landscape color and save up to 550 gallons each year.

#75: Drop your tissue in the trash instead of the toliet and save water every time.

Check out the complete list here and challenge yourself to adapt 5 of them. 

I think personal sustainbility is KEY to combating issues like water usage, global warming and others- however, i think there needs to be a closely related effort to monitor industry and agriculture when it comes to water usage and how better to have those facets of American life recognize their usage and how to better manage it.  To do this without "blue washing" is key and necessary when it comes to the sustainability of water on this planet.  These industries use 80% of our fresh water in the United States. How do we work on that?