Conserving water use is a great way to help the environment. Conserving water use is also mandatory, from time to time, in places that are experiencing a drought. There are many great ideas that you can implement when conserving your use of water.
Instructions
1. Take shorter showers or take a shallow bath. The average shower head releases 5 to 7 gallons of water every minute and filling the average bathtub to capacity uses about 36 gallons. Limiting your shower time to about 5 minutes, or only filling the tub halfway, for a bath, will greatly reduce your water usage.
2. Turn off the water in the sink while you are brushing your teeth. If you brush your teeth for 2 minutes twice a day, you are wasting about 20 gallons of water every day.
3. Don't water your lawn every day. Many people set their sprinklers to a timer and let it go, even if it has recently rained. By turning on your sprinklers, manually, only when your lawn needs it, you can greatly cut down on unnecessary water use.
4. Flush your toilet less. Have you even heard the expression "If it's yellow, let it mellow?" It may sound downright disgusting to some, but flushing your toilet only when you need to for odor reasons can really help cut down your water usage, because every flush uses 3.5 to 5 gallons. Another way that you can save water with your toilet, is to replace older models with newer, efficient models that only use 1.6 gallons per flush.
5. Wash your clothes only when doing full loads (no small or medium loads,) when you are left with nothing else to wear and avoid double rinse cycles, because every wash uses an average of 30 to 60 gallons per load.
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