None of these suggestions are groundbreaking or unheard of; rather, the tips we read in Natural Home's article Lower Your Flow: 10 Ways to Save Water at Home are just good reminders that the small, seemingly unimportant actions we can make can add up to great, positive benefits.
Our favorite tips from Natural Home's article Lower Your Flow: 10 Ways to Save Water at Home:
- Wash only full loads of laundry, or use the appropriate water-level or load-size selection. Wash in cold water.
- Keep drinking water in the refrigerator instead of letting the faucet run until the water is cool.
- Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher. Wash only full loads.
- Repair all leaks. A leaky toilet can waste 200 gallons a day. To test your toilet, put a few drops of food coloring in the tank. Wait a few minutes. If coloring appears in the toilet bowl, you have a leak.
- Keep your yard healthy by dethatching, mulching and using natural fertilizers.
Read the full list here.
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The big ones here in Oz during the 10-year draught we just came out of (mostly, and yes, into floods) were things like saving water from washing machine (& a bath, should you go that far) to put on the garden (not edibles), keeping a bucket in the shower for the water when it's warming up or the like, and reusing that (cleaning, watering, flushing toilet), quick showers (three minutes, according to the handout), and never using potable water to do anything in the garden or to wash the car (small bucket only). It was assumed you had a limited flow shower head, dual low flush toilet, fixed leaks immediately & so on.
I can't belive there are people who do their teeth/shave/peel veg with the tap running, it's scary. And at the height of the draught, house magazines with pictures of big baths & those huge shower heads seemed somehow dirty...
A second for using the water from your laundry cycle. We water our townhouse's entire lawn that way.