1. Have you ever considered turning down your hot water heater?
2. One large contributor to water usage in your home is your toilet. Low-flow toilets are one option to save hundreds of gallons of water. Make sure your plumbing system can handle a low-flow toilet, then check out these 5 tips for choosing a low-flow toilet so your home can become even more efficient.
3. You may also benefit from updating to a low-flow shower head. With just a little research, it will be easy to narrow down which shower head would work in your climate. There are two basic kinds- aerating and laminar-flow. Both are great options to reduce your home's water usage.
4. There are so many ways you can cut water usage in your bathroom and in your house! Here are 100+ Ways to Conserve Water.
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5. ThisOldHouse.com gives a great tip for stopping water loss by your toilet. They instruct to "Pour food coloring into the water in the tank, wait two hours, then check to see if any color has seeped into the bowl. If it has, your tank's flapper is leaking, either from mineral buildup or warn parts. After you flush the dye away so it doesn't stain, head to the hardware store for a replacement flapper assembly (then go to thisoldhouse.com for instructions on how to install it.) Toilet leaks waste up to a gallon of water per minute. Thats more than 43,000 gallons a month".
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3. You may also benefit from updating to a low-flow shower head. With just a little research, it will be easy to narrow down which shower head would work in your climate. There are two basic kinds- aerating and laminar-flow. Both are great options to reduce your home's water usage.
4. There are so many ways you can cut water usage in your bathroom and in your house! Here are 100+ Ways to Conserve Water.
WATCH OUR VIDEO ABOUT
SAVING WATER
5. ThisOldHouse.com gives a great tip for stopping water loss by your toilet. They instruct to "Pour food coloring into the water in the tank, wait two hours, then check to see if any color has seeped into the bowl. If it has, your tank's flapper is leaking, either from mineral buildup or warn parts. After you flush the dye away so it doesn't stain, head to the hardware store for a replacement flapper assembly (then go to thisoldhouse.com for instructions on how to install it.) Toilet leaks waste up to a gallon of water per minute. Thats more than 43,000 gallons a month".
Statistics and Research via Energy.gov | WaterUseItWisely.com | ThisOldHouse.com
