Household Water Conservation Tips

In our previous post, we discussed how important a commodity water is, and how we need to do everything in our power to conserve water. There’s no denying the importance of water and yet we waste large volumes of it every single day. The abundance of water has led to us misusing it and hence, we find ourselves in this situation, where our most vital resource for survival is rapidly depleting.

The task of water conservation is something each one of us has to do, just because your neighbour doesn't do it, doesn't mean you don’t. It must be a joint effort made by each one of us, wherein, the tiny amount of water saved by each of us adds to a significantly large amount. Let’s have a look at some very simple ways in which we can save water in our homes.

Install low-flow showerheads: Installing a low flow shower and tap is the simplest way of conserving water. Using these fittings in your bathroom and kitchen would bring down your overall water consumption by almost 50%. Also, try and cut down your shower by a few minutes, this would save around 550 liters of water every month. 

Convert your toilet into a dual flush: A dual flush is a variation of the flush toilet which consists of two different buttons which release different amounts of water. This will avoid a lot of water wastage.

Do not thaw frozen foods under flowing water as this leads to a lot of wastage, instead try and use the defrost setting on your microwave or leave it in your fridge overnight.

Always check your faucets: Leaky faucets are a major cause for water wastage. If a faucet drips at one drop per second, you would waste around 9,000 of water a year. This would also strain your septic tank and sewer utilities. All this can be avoided very easily by checking your faucets from time to time.

Do not ever throw used water down the drain as it could be used for a bunch of other purposes such as watering the plants or garden.

Get all your water pipes insulated, this will help you help you get hot water instantly and avoid you wasting water while letting it heat up.

Apart from helping conserve water, these tips will help you reduce your water utility bill, reduce water pollution in nearby lakes and rivers and largely extend the life of your septic tank. We would strongly urge you to follow these tips in order to do your part in saving our most vital resource, water.