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 discovered that when we turn on the tap to warm the water before getting in the shower, the cold water fills one waste basket. We then use that water to pour into our toilet to “force” flush it.
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!
We made rain barrels out of resources we had at home. After the city introduced the new garbage bins ours have been sitting empty. We bought a spout and a stand with scrap wood and cans up with this system to catch our rain water. The lid has holes with a screen to keep just the water to enter and it over flows to our other pail and then out a hose to our yard when they’re both full. It’s amazing how quickly rain water adds up when you collect it.