How is the environment affected by our personal hygiene and cleanliness practices?
There is no doubt that both water and energy are used. Water and energy make an important contribution to our health. Certainly, our personal hygiene and health are worth protecting from disease, uncontrollable plagues and contagion. It is the waste and misuse that can be identified and reduced that will be of great importance. We need to capture an informed conservation conscience that will master our use of water and energy. The lessons of personal hygiene and cleanliness were learned slowly over a long period of time and some of the lessons have faded somewhat, even though they may be more important now than ever before. While new chemicals and antibiotics appear regularly to combat disease and infection, viruses and bacteria can become resistant. People develop sensitivities and allergic reactions to antibiotics. Consider, too, people are more mobile than they were just a few decades ago. New Asian Flu viruses can arrive in one day’s time. A scary new bacteria is reported to digest
