9 Ways To Save Water.
I always love reading these kinds of tips, it always combined with words like Global Warming to me and somehow I want to help in my own little way so I want to share to you some tips I read online, and of course, I will put every tip into practice.
1. Turn off the faucet while brushing your teeth. Brushing your teeth seems like a quick job, but before you know it, four gallons of water may have slipped down the sink.
2. Bring your water with you. Buying a daily bottle of water may quench your thirst, but it parches the planet. Each one-liter plastic bottle takes seven liters of water to produce. Refilling your own bottle directs the water where it’s needed―into your body.
3. Buy recycled paper products. Products made from 100 percent recycled paper require much less water in their manufacturing than do those made from virgin paper. If your family goes through four rolls of paper towels a week, choosing recycled reduces waste significantly.
4. Install a low flow showerhead. Low-flow showerheads cut water use in half. If you take a five-minute shower using this type of showerhead, the showerhead would save enough water in a year to fill a 15-foot aboveground pool. Plus, you save all the energy that would have gone into heating the shower water.
5. Water your lawn in the early morning or evening. If you irrigate in the middle of the day, evaporation prevents 14 percent of the water from reaching the plants’ roots. Watering the lawn in the early morning or evening can save the typical home owner 87 gallons a week.
6. Water your lawn with a hose, not a sprinkler. The average single-family home pours at least 25,000 gallons of water a year on the lawn―more than double the amount used inside. People are smarter than automatic sprinklers: Watering with a hose is at least twice as efficient.
7. Eat one more vegetarian meal a week. It takes a lot of water to grow the grain to feed the cow that ultimately produces a hamburger. Replacing just four ounces of beef in your diet a week with a vegetarian option can save more than 3,000 gallons of water.
8. Use a lower setting on your dishwasher. Contrary to popular belief, it’s almost never necessary to use the normal setting on a dishwasher or to rinse plates beforehand. The light-wash setting cleans just as well while reducing water use up to 55 percent.
9. Install faucet aerators. Faucets account for 15 percent of indoor water use and typically flow at twice the rate they should. Installing aerators in kitchen and bathroom sinks fixes this problem for only a dollar or two per sink.
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