Things you can do to save water in the Bathroom
1.~ Check your toilet for leaks.~ Put a little food coloring in your toilet tank.~ If, without flushing, the color begins to appear in bowl, you have a leak that should be repaired immediately.
2.~ Stop using the toilet as an ashtray or wastebasket. Every time you flush a cigarette butt, facial tissue, or other small bits of trash, you waste five to seven gallons of water.
3.~ Put plastic bottles in your toilet tank.~ To cut down on water waste, put an inch or two of sand pebbles inside each of plastic bottles to weigh them down.~ Fill them with water and put them in your toilet tank.~ In an average home, the bottles may displace and save ten or more gallons of water a day.
4.~ Take shorter showers.~ Long, hot showers can waste five to ten gallons every unneeded minute.
5.~ Install water saving shower heads or flow restrictors. Your local hardware or plumbing supple store stocks inexpensive water saving shower heads or restrictors that are easy to install.
6.~ Take baths. A bath in a partially filled tub uses less water than all but the shortest showers.
7.~ Turn off the water after you wet your toothbrush. There is no need to keep water pouring down the drain. Just wet your brush and fill a glass for mouth rinsing.
8.~ Rinse your razor in the sink. Fill the bottom of a sink with a few inches of warm water.~ This will rinse your blade as well as running water.~ And far less wastefully.
9.~ Check faucets and pipes for leaks.~ Even the smallest drip from a worn washer can waste 20 or more gallons a day.~ Large leaks can waste hundreds.
Things you can do to save water in the kitchen and laundry
1.~ Use your automatic dishwasher only for full loads.
2.~ Use your automatic washing machine only for full loads.
3.~ If you wash dishes by hand, don't leave the water running for rinsing. If you have two sinks, fill one with soapy water and one with rinse water.~ If you have only one sink,
gather washed dishes in a dish rack and rinse them with a spray device or a panful of hot water.
4.~ Don't let the faucet run while you clean vegetables. Just rinse them in a stoppered sink or a pan of clean water.
5.~ Keep a bottle of drinking water in the refrigerator.~ Running tap water to cool it off for drinking water is wasteful.
6.~ Check faucets and pipes for leaks.
Things you can do to save water outside
1.~ Water your lawn only when it needs it.~ A good way to see if your lawn needs watering is to step on the grass.~ If it springs back up when you move, it doesn't need water. If it stays flat, fetch the sprinkler.
2.~ Deep soak your lawn.~ When you do water, do it long enough for the moisture to soak down to the roots where it will do the most good.~ A light sprinkling can evaporate quickly and tends to encourage shallow root systems.
3.~ Water during the cool parts of the day.~ Early morning generally is better than dusk since it helps prevent growth of fungus.
4.~ Don't water the gutter.~ Position your sprinklers so water lands on the lawn or garden, not on the paved areas.~ Also avoid watering on windy days.
5.~ Plant drought resistant trees and plants. Many beautiful trees and plants thrive with far less watering than other species.
6.~ Put a layer of mulch around trees and plants. Mulch will slow evaporation of moisture and discourage weed growth too.
7.~ Use a broom, not a hose, to clean driveways and sidewalks.
8.~ Don't run the hose while washing your car. Clean the car with a pail of soapy water.~ Use the hose just to rinse it off.
9.~ Tell your children not to play with the hose and sprinklers.
10.~ Check for leaks in pipes, hoses, faucets and couplings.
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