The average American uses 15 gallons of water per day just washing clothes. Per day. We don't think about that. We typically don't think about water much, but we rarely consider how much goes into keeping our little piece of the world clean. We certainly don't really think about how much water it takes to wash our clothes. We just toss them into that white box and when they come out they're clean. The intermediate process doesn't concern us.

We don't often stop and think that there are people even within America who don't always have the option of just running a small load so that favorite tshirt is freshly laundered for tomorrow, never mind the millions around the world who need to save clean water for drinking.

Images by Daniel Horacio Agostini and sharyn morrow