Keepers at Home-Water Conservation

What is Water Conservation?

Water conservation is the practice of using water efficiently to reduce unnecessary water usage. It is the system introduced to manage freshwater, reduce the wastage and protect the water and its resources in order to reduce and to avoid the scarcity. Therefore, we all should come forward to create awareness about conservation of water among our own friends, family, neighbours, society, etc. Conservation of water is very much essential as it saves life on earth. 

Tips for saving water around the home:-

1. Check your toilet for leaks. Put a few drops of food coloring in your toilet tank. If, without flushing, the coloring begins to appear in the bowl., you have a leak that may be wasting more than 100 gallons of water a day. 
   
2. Avoid flushing the toilet unnecessarily. Dispose of tissues, insets and other similar waste in the trash can and not the toilet.
3. Put a brick in your toilet’s water tank. You flush an average of 20 gallons of water a day down the toilet. If you don’t have a high-efficiency toilet, try filling your tank with something that will displace some of that water, such as a brick. Or Put a plastic bottle in your toilet tank. Put an inch or two of sand or pebbles in the bottom of a one liter bottle to weigh it down. Fill the rest of the bottle with water and put it in your toilet tank, safely away from the operating mechanism. In an average home, the bottle may save five gallons or more of water every day without harming the efficiency of the toilet. If your tank is big enough, you may even be able to put in two bottles.
4. Use the right amount of water for each load of laundry. Typically 15-40 percent of indoor home water use comes from doing laundry. Save water by making sure to adjust the settings on your machine to the proper load size.
5. Take shorter showers. A typical shower uses five to ten gallons of water a minute. Limit your showers to the time it takes to soap up, wash down and rise off.
6. Install water-saving shower heads or flow restrictors. Your hardware or plumbing supply store stocks inexpensive shower heads or flow restrictors that will cut your shower flow to about three gallons a minute instead of five to ten. They are easy to install, and your showers will still be cleansing and refreshing.  
7. Turn off the water while brushing your teeth. Before brushing, wet your brush and fill a glass for rinsing your mouth.
8.  Turn off the water while shaving. Fill the bottom of the sink with a few inches of warm water in which to rinse your razor.
9. Check faucets and pipes for leaks. Even a small drip can waste 50 or more gallons of water a day.  
10. If you wash dishes by hand, don't leave the water running for rinsing. If you have two sinks, fill one with rinse water. If you have only one sink, first gather all your washed dishes in a dish rack, then rinse them quickly with a spray device or a pan of water.
    
11. Use your automatic dishwasher for full loads only. Running your dishwasher less often saves water and money.
12. Do not use running water to thaw meat or other frozen foods. Defrost food overnight in the refrigerator or use the defrost setting on your microwave.
13. Use your automatic washing machine only for full loads only. Your automatic washer uses 30 to 35 gallons per cycle.  
14. Don't let the faucet run while you clean vegetables. Rinse your vegetables instead in a bowl or sink full of clean water.
15. Keep a bottle of drinking water in the refrigerator. This puts a stop to the wasteful practice of running tap water to cool it for drinking.  
16. Put a layer of mulch around trees and plants. Mulch slows the evaporation of moisture.
17. Use a broom to clean driveways, sidewalks and steps. Using a hose wastes hundreds and hundreds of gallons of water.  
18. Don't run the hose while washing your car. Soap down your car from a pail of soapy water. Use a hose only to rinse it off.
19. Water plants wisely. Water your lawn or garden early in the morning or late in the evening, so the water lasts and is not immediately evaporated by the hot sun.
20.  Install a low-flow showerhead. With a low-flow showerhead, you can save 15 gallons of water during a 10-minute shower.
21. Collect water in rain barrels. Use water for watering plants, bathing even drinking.
22. Use a bucket and sponge to clean the car.
23. Reusing water. If air condition is on place a bucket to catch the hose to catch the water. This water can be used to wash down the yard and or water the plants.

To learn more about water conversation visit these sites:-

https://www.waterwise.org.uk/save-water/

https://www.projectwater.info/100-ways-to-conserve-water.html

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