every drop counts
EV-ree DROP KOWNTS
ˈɛvri drɒp kaʊntsListen
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each small individual contribution to a collective effort matters and accumulates into significant total impact; no individual action is too small to be worth taking because the sum of many small actions is substantial; used in conservation campaigns to encourage water conservation, recycling, charitable giving, and voting; captures the mathematical logic that large aggregate outcomes consist entirely of individual contributions, and that collective problems like water scarcity, pollution, and climate change can only be addressed through the aggregation of millions of individual behavioural changes
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