Having already looked at how to reduce your heating and electricity bills, here are ten ways to reduce your water bill.
- Only wash full loads with your dishwasher and laundry washer. A partial load can use the same amount of water, but you will be washing more often.
- If replacing a dishwasher or washing machine, replace it with a high efficiency model.
- Use a low-flow shower head. This can easily cut the water used during a shower in half.
- Replace the aerators on your kitchen and bathroom sink faucets. This is the part that screws onto the end of the faucet and controls the flow of water.
- Turn off the water when not in use while brushing your teeth or shaving.
- Replace your toilet with a low-flow model, or install a tank bag or adjustable flapper, which reduces how much water is needed to fill the tank.
- Use a rain barrels attached to your eavestrough downspout to collect water. This can then be used for watering plants or washing your car.
- Water your lawn at night. This allows the water to sink into the ground without evaporating in the mid-day heat.
- Keep water in the fridge to have cold water available without running the tap until it cools.
- Check for leaky faucets or toilets and get them repaired. These leaks can waste thousands of litres of water in a year.
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You can also use the drums to collect water to harvest your own mosquitoes!
You can also store the water used in the washing machine and the dishwasher and water the garden from it. Good tips by the way!
That’s great. I never thought of watering my lawn at night. Good tips!
In Australia, we often have to live with drought so most of us have become pretty ‘water-wise’ and many of us still live this way even after our “summer of sorrow” when we were hit with massive floods.
But one way that many of us use to save water is to keep a ‘watering bucket’ in the shower so that the hot water running when we first turn on the shower is collected in the bucket and used to water our pot-plants.