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 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 built a small garden and bought a new rain barrel to water it.
We keep a pail in our sink to collect water to use to rinse our dishes!
Megan Rodgers is using dry shampoo to reduce her hair washing to only twice a week. Thank you to Megan Rodgers for sharing what you’re doing to conserve water. Megan is now entered into the Home Water Conservation Challenge Draw! Make sure you submit your… Read More »Home Water Conservation Tip from Megan
Crystal Sawatzky shared the following as part of our Home Water Conservation Challenge. I keep the mop bucket in the shower and the water collected in there gets transferred to my watering cans for the outdoor plants! Thank you to Crystal Sawatzky for sharing what… Read More »Home Water Conservation Tip from Crystal
We are saving shower water to water our garden, trees and shrubs, we are also reusing dishes throughout the day when they aren’t to dirty to be reused to reduce the amount we run our dishwasher. We also installed an eaves trough on our shed to collect rain water from.
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.
John Viallet shared the following as part of our Home Water Conservation Challenge. I have been collecting water from my central air conditioner in a 5 gallon pails to water the trees on my property instead of letting that water go into the drain! Thank… Read More »Home Conservation Tip from John
We are mulching the garden and watering only on water days if it needs it. We replaced a drippy spigot, purchased a rain barrel, and we are using dehumidifier water on plants.