Some water-saving tips from the City of Atlanta (and Mayor Franklin is STRONG)
Here’s a good list of water-saving tips from the City of Atlanta. It’s quite a good list and included a few things I hadn’t thought of.
However, I had to laugh at the third item in the list: “Do like Mayor Franklin and keep a 10-gallon bucket in your shower. When it is full, water outdoor plants.“ The suggestion is good, but do you know how much ten gallons of water weighs? 83 pounds! Could you carry that outside?
A few other tips that I didn’t see on the list:
- Put a brick or a bottle of some sort (full of water/sand so it doesn’t float) in your toilet tank. You’ll save that much water every time you flush.
- We have a dehumidifier in our basement that fills up daily (about two gallons). We use that to water the flowers in front of the house.
Do you have other tips? Leave them in the comments below.
October 20th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Large industrial users have the ability to conserve huge amounts of water daily, but have no compelling reason to do so. Hundreds of thousands of gallons could be easily be recycled using technology that is readily available. This is fact, not speculation.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
[...] the money on a new toilet, there are still ways to reduce the per-flush water usage — just put a brick in the tank and it will save a little bit of water with every [...]
November 5th, 2007 at 11:09 am
We conserve by preparing low cost meals so we can use paper plates and plasticware, as well as plastic cups for drinking and styro cups for coffee, this cuts dishwashing down dramatically. We buy drinking water for filling the coffee maker, brushing teeth, washing hands, etc.
Purchasing water produced elsewhere, conserves our supply!
November 14th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
The brick in the toilet trick doesnt help much, especially if you already have a water conserving toilet. A good tip is to limit flushes! Knowing when to flush and when it is not necessary has saved about 10-15 gallons a day in our home. If 1 million citizens do the same, thats an astronomical savings!
Next I went and got casual uniforms for my office job at work. Now I only need to wash undergarments and wash loads have dropped dramatically. It also saves time if your running 6 or more loads of laundry a week! While uniform services use lots of water, the gain in customers is minimal on there water usage. My cost is a mere $7.00 a week for 5 uniforms, delivered! If I were to place priorities on what is most important if this shortage should become critical, it is sanitation and hygiene. I limit my showers to 1 on the weekend, and wear ‘around the house’ outer garments for 2 days, when appropriate.
I remind myself that, ‘The water I waste today, might be the water I need tomorrow’.
February 24th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
[...] to popular wisdom (even mentioned on our site a while back), collecting excess shower water in a bucket to use on your flowers will probably make the water [...]