Facts & Tips

 To test for leaks, add a few drops of food coloring to your toilet tank and wait 10 minutes. If the color shows up in your bowl, then you have a leak allowing water to flow from the tank to your drain without ever flushing the bowl. Leaks don't just happen inside the home -- they occur outside as well. 

 Just by turning off the tap while you brush your teeth in the morning and before bedtime, you can save up to 8 gallons of water! That adds up to more than 200 gallons a month. 

Before running the washing machine, wait until you  have a full load (same rule of thumb for the dishwasher). This will make the  most of energy  energy, water, and detergent the machine uses 

 You can of course reuse rainwater for irrigation purposes, such as watering your garden and other outdoor water uses. ... For immediate and short-term use, boiling the water is a great way to clean the rainwater from pollutants. 

 Every time you flush a cigarette butt, facial tissue, or other small bits of trash, you waste five to seven gallons of water. Put plastic bottles in your toilet tank. 

A standard showerhead flows at a rate of 2.5 gallons per minute. This means that a ten minute shower only uses 25 gallons of water. A full bath can use up to 70 gallons of water. Using these numbers, a shower will use less water in most cases. 

However, this calculation depends on many variables and may not always be the case. The amount of water you use can vary based on the bath tub size, the showerhead's flow rate, and the length of your shower. 

 You can simply pour the leftover water from your glasses into pots and planters. This is one of the most effective ways of recycling the water as it is being given back to the nature for growth. 

 any extra water than you're wasting time, money, and valuable energy. 

 Monitor your water usage on your water bill and ask your local government about a home water audit.

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