Saving water UK
- Created by: CalPro
- Created on: 25-04-18 11:03
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- How to save water By CalPro
- Ways to Save Water Indoors
- Check all faucets, pipes and toilets for leaks.
- Install water saving showerheads and ultra-low-flush toilets.
- Fully load your dishwasher.
- Take smaller shower/less time
- Turn off the water while brushing your teeth or shaving.
- defrost food in the fridge
- Wash full loads of clothes.
- Ways to save water Outside
- Dont over water the garden
- Adjust sprinklers so that they don't water the path
- Don't water on cool, rainy or windy days.
- Equip all hoses with shut-off nozzles.
- plant low water use plants and grasses
- Use a pool cover to cut down on water evaporation
- Use a bucket instead of a hose to wash your car.
- Use a broom rather than a hose to clean sidewalks, driveways
- Why save water
- Helps to preserve our environment.
- Reducing our use of water reduces the energy required to process and deliver it to homes, business, farms, and communities,
- helps to reduce pollution and conserve fuel resources. Is available in the future for recreational purposes
- Use a water but to save water and collect water for gardening
- Try and keep the water used in your pool over and over again insted of refilling every time you use it.
- Facts
- 9.5 gallons of water per person every day. Most of these leaks are from toilet tanks. A faucet that drips once every second wastes about 10 gallons in one day!
- Running the tap while brushing your teeth can waste 4 gallons of water.
- Older toilets can use 3 gallons of clean water with every flush, while new toilets use as little as 1 gallon.
- Leaky faucets that drip at the rate of one drop per second can waste up to 2,700 gallons of water each year.
- A average shower lasts for 8.2 minutes at average flow rate of 2.1 gallons per minute
- A estermated amont of leaks mean every minute wastes 526 gallons of water per year
- Ways to Save Water Indoors
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