Simple Water Saving Tips At Home

Thanks, 02SmithA for your words of appreciation. Nice to know you liked those tips.

Water availability, both in terms of quality and quantity, has declined to such an extent that many parts of the world including Africa and India both rural and urban regions face a drought-like situation on seasonal basis.

Through individual incremental efforts like these we can make a significant impact in the tomorrow. Who said can one individual can not make a difference ?

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Putting them into practice will yield the desired results :-)
These are simple tips that can be implemented at all homes. Of course there are other ideas for bigger homes that use hot water systems etc. Would like to cover those separately.

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Well i have actually used the 'buckets' idea to save water. And let me tell you it works like a charm. Not only do you get to save water, you complete three errands in single sitting :-)

A friend of mine who is an expert in 'value engineering' let me in on this idea.

Thanks for your generous appreciation, cute17. I hope you use some of these tips at your home.

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It may surprise you to know that while brushing teeth if you do not close water tap after you wet your brush you stand to lose 4 gallons of water a minute! And that if you keep your shower time below 5 mins you save 1000 gallons of water a month.

Ione Anne Coghlan, do try those tips at home. You will get results. And yes, thanks or writing in and appreciating.

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Your hopes have come true, Lokesh. Yes, I have actually tried those ideas at home and they work:-) I got my maid to follow the 3-bucket plan and the saving of water is enormous.

You are quite right when you say people tell ideas and not follow. 'Saying' will not make a difference, 'doing' will. In other words it is about you and not people.

But I wonder what is so 'strange' about those ideas

Nonetheless, thanks for writing in, Lokesh.

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There's the 'you know, it might work if you ...'-kind of plan, and the 'like I did before'-kind of plan.

Time-travel procedure? strange if you've never seen it done before; three-bucket method? strange to many, but not to you!

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Maybe Lokesh was referring to the buckets of water for washing clothes idea? In the West anyway, most people don't wash clothes in buckets, they use washing machines that are connected to water pipes directly and the waste water goes directly out from the machine to the waste pipe...so you have no ability to re-use the water.

I also wasn't sure what the showerhead pictures referred to... the article says use the left option, but I can't tell what the difference is between the left and right picture, except that one shows blue water and the other shows red... does this mean use cool water instead of hot?

I'm also not sure about "Bath tub, shower, bucket bath - you can save water in that order." I've always heard that showers use much less water than baths... and if you use a low-flow showerhead, you save even more.

Just my thoughts. And to tie in Mythman's comment, I'd add "What would Jesus do?" I bet he'd have a very eco-friendly bathroom decorated in earth tones, with a natural skylight and low-flow fixtures. And he would always change the washers in his faucets when they start to drip!

You are right, Idlewind. The buckets idea is for manual washing like i mentioned in the article. True people wash clothes using auto-machines, so you cannot use that errand here with the 'blue' bucket. The basic crux of 'bucket-idea' is to group work so as to recycle used water for subsequent tasks appropriately.

As for showers, the blue and red colors are only for illustrations.

"Bath tub, shower, bucket bath - you can save water in that order. Shifting to left most option is the best."

Well it means using baths tubs you use stand to save most water as you limit the water usage beforehand. Next option is the shower - it has a flow rate (which can varies tough), so tendency is to use more water than baths,where quantity is fixed. Lastly is the bucket bath method where you use free flow of tap water for baths.

Left most means the first option- bath tub.

I hope i clear the ambiguity an thanks for bringing that up, Idlewind.

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for the clarification... and I'm glad I don't have to shower in blue water!

I do use a variation on the bucket idea... when I'm running the hot water faucet waiting for it to get hot, I collect the not-yet-hot water in a bottle (rather than letting it run down the drain) and save it to pour in the toilet or water the plants (the ones that haven't died on me yet, LOL).

Kukku then you don't actually do it yourself. Your maid does it. : )

Please tell me how you (or I should say - your maid) gets the water out of your washing machine before the spin cycle every time??? Does she stand there and cyphen or pail it out?

I use most of these methods all ready.

Not buying it about you using the first bucket in your method with the rinse water...

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That was a point I made earlier... the bucket technique works if you wash your laundry by hand, but not with a washing machine, since water goes in & out of the machine through pipes. (I do wash some stuff by hand, but not often enough to make a huge difference in my monthly water use.)

The point I sort of make there is not that Jesus did- or didn't say bad things not recorded, but that he could have.

The point of this article was not 'Oh! How great is our Kukku!' but rather 'using these ideas will save you some water, whether Kukku uses them or not.'

Sometimes it's okay to think you can make a difference, Lokesh!

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That was wonderfully put across, mythman. Now i wish Lokesh reads the article again with renewed enthusiasm :-)

Thanks ~lovely soul~ for the good deed!

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Everybody I know and I mean everybody is moaning about the prices of gas at the pumps.

Not many people were moaning about water shortages - until now that is.

Here in Cyprus, we are now on water rationing, meaning we get water 3 days a week.
Monday 7pm to Tuesday 7am
Wednesday 7pm to Thursday 7am
Friday 7pm to Saturday 7pm

It's amazing how much we take for granted. Point in case - water. Turn on the tap and H2O comes out. Thirst quenched.

It's only when you turn the tap on and all you get is the O, that you start to question your way of life.

Totally agree with the water saving tips from kukku. Here's a few more:

1. Put a brick in your WC cistern. This limits the amount of water you use when you flush and still gets rid of what needs getting rid of
2. water used for washing vegetables is still perfectly good for simple cleaning jobs or watering plants
3. share showers - my favorite tip and one which has bought much joy to my husband (who says life needs to end at 65?). This is getting a bit more difficult for us and we will probably be changing this to shared baths some time soon but for the time being it's great fun PLUS we are helping the planet

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Several guesses: because oil executives are greedier than they are 'economy'-cal; because manual locomotion is so much more fun! (once you get the gears and chains connected to the wheels);

because The Established Rich are afraid that--if people start thinking without the encouragement of the Rich--that the power shift will a) move outside of the Ol` Boys' Club and/or b) be too difficult for the Great Unwashed Masses to handle!

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"I thought the next global conflict was going to be caused by global warming, not a shortage of water. "

It could be argued that the two are tied together: as many areas of the world have higher temperatures, they are becoming dryer, so water is becoming a more scarce resource.

Whether one believes in global warming or not, areas of the U.S. Southeast and Southwest have had serious droughts in recent years, and some legal skirmishes have already broken out. One southern state is actually looking to have its border with a neighbor redrawn based on an old map, because the new border would mean access to a river that isn't now considered part of its territory.

We don't defeat the Devil by doing things the way he understands them (i.e. the ~quid pro quo~ of evil), we defeat him by REFUSING to understand his way as we do things the way we understand them (the ~quid pro quo~ of good).

The difference? The evil ~quid pro quo~er has to see/know the effect, has to see the 'half full/-empty glass' as something to either drink or -fill.

I'm sure my bathtub holds 40-1000 gallons, but that's not how I gauge my bathwater!

Just because water is as abundant as the pavement in your automotive-traffic world doesn't mean it flows so abundantly in all places.

Assume no reward, and so every reward is an extra blessing!

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