Helpful tips and other
easy means to save water.
In your house
check for leaks from faucets and pipes; even the smallest
drip can waste as much as 75 liters a day.
In the
bathroom:
Flush less remember the toilet is not an ashtray or
wastebasket.
While brushing
teeth, shaving, etc., turn off the water.
When cold water
will do, avoid using hot water.
Take shorter
showers 5 minutes or less.
In the shower,
wet yourself down, turn the water off, lather up, then turn the water on to
rinse off soap.
In the
kitchen:
Operate the dishwasher only when you have a full load.
Scrape, dont
rinse, your dishes before loading in the dishwasher.
When purchasing a
dishwasher, consider a water-efficient model.
Thaw frozen food
in the refrigerator or microwave, not under running water.
Store drinking
water in the refrigerator instead of letting the tap run while you wait for
cool water to flow.
When washing
dishes by hand, fill one sink or basin with soapy water and fill the rinsing
sink to one-third or one-half full
avoid letting the water run continuously in the rinsing sink.
In the
laundry:
For washers with variable settings for water volume, select the minimum
amount required per load.
If load size
cannot be set, operate the washer with full loads only.
Use the shortest
wash cycle for lightly soiled loads; normal and permanent press wash cycles
use more water.
Check hoses
regularly for leaks.
Pretreat stains
to avoid rewashing.
About 65%
of indoor home water use occurs in our bathrooms.
Toilets are the single greatest water user.
UNESCO
has predicted that by 2020 water shortage will be a serious
worldwide problem.
Did you know that
in Canada, the average person uses more than 343 litres of fresh
water a day?
In your house
check for leaks from faucets and pipes; even the smallest
drip can waste as much as 75 liters a day.
Almost 80% of the
earth's surface is covered in water. Of this, 97% is salt water, 2% is
glacial ice. That leaves less than 1% as fresh water for us to use.
The human body is
about 70% water; we cannot survive more than a week without
water.
A mere
10% of our home water supply is used in the
kitchen and as drinking water.
Indoor water use
peaks twice a day year-round, in the mornings and
evenings.
The biggest peaks
during the year occur in the summer, when about half to
three quarters of all municipally treated water is sprayed onto lawns.
As a community
grows, the water use grows even faster because the diversity of water uses
increases with size.
