July 2021

Sometimes, we plug our bathtub when we shower, and run a hose from the bathtub, through our upstairs window and into our garden.

I am not watering my lawn at all, and have only purchased one annual flower. I use the water from cooking (draining vegetable water in a pail etc), I have a pail in my shower to catch the cold water coming out at the beginning… Read More »Yard Water Conservation Tip from Kathy

We went to the dollar store, picked up and planted our fake flowers… no water required and they look pretty good too! Lol

We are using only collected rain water for our plants, waiting for next year to plant trees.

We have been collecting rain water, as a family, after every rain and watering our plants and grass with it.

We built a small garden and bought a new rain barrel to water it.

We are conserving water in our home by applying similar principles as recycling: Reduce, Reuse & Recycle. One way we reduce our water consumption is with a low-flow shower head attachment, and taking very short showers. Reusing & Recycling water is accomplished by having a pail, bowl or bucket under each faucet. (Rinse dishes in a bowl, wash hands in a pail, capture & scoop shower water into a bucket.) This allows all the used water to be captured for reuse and recycling for watering plants, as well as dumping into the toilet to flush via gravity.

We are saving our shower water and sink water and using it to flush our toilet and we are using the rule “if it’s yellow let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down”. We are saving our water from washing and rinsing dishes to use to water my plants on the deck.

We keep a pail in our sink to collect water to use to rinse our dishes!