There are so many things that we can do in terms of every day water conservation. I want to talk a little bit about bathroom water usage and how you can do what you can to use less water each day without suffering for it.
Here are some water conservation tips that you can use each day in the bathroom:
TIP ONE:
Many of us tend to take showers that last at least 15 minutes, I was really guilty of having long showers. What I didn’t know is that a 15 minute shower uses about 300 liters of water! Try to cut your shower in half and encourage the rest of your family to do the same. If you all did that you could save up to 1,200 full bathtubs worth of water per year.
TIP TWO:
Don’t let your leaky taps drip away liters and liters of water. When you see a tap that’s dripping get it fixed. Leaky taps that are dripping one drip per second are wasting 10,000 liters of water each year. Wow!
TIP THREE
When you are vrushing your teeth turn off the tap between rinses. By leaving it running the whole time you are wasting approximately 8 liters of water per minute. This is a super easy way to incorporate water conservation into your daily bathroom routines.
TIP FOUR:
Sure we notice when our taps are leaking but how many of us really pay attention to wheather our toilets are? If it’s a small leak you may not even see it but you need to look for it. A leaky toilet is just as bad as a leaky tap. You could be wasting 200 liters of water each and every day. A simple way to check if your toilet is leaking is to put a few drops of food coloring in the tank of the toilet. If the color seeps into the bowl then you know there’s a leak.
TIP FIVE:
THe last water conservation tip in the bathroom that I have for you is a great one. There are ultra low volume toilets on the market now. These are awesome and they say that if everyone in Canada installed these in place of their existing toilets we would save a whopping 25,000 Olympic sized pools worth of water each year.
Conserving water in the bathroom isn’t something that has to be a struggle, it’s easy. Just a few little tweaks to your regular routine could save hundreds even thousands of liters of water per year.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Jessicacoivy // May 10, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Wow! Thank you very much! I always wanted to write in my site something like that
2 ArianaEmet // May 14, 2009 at 2:57 am
Your site displays incorrectly in Firefox, but content excellent! Thank you for your wise words:)
3 nick from bathroom rentals // May 26, 2009 at 9:03 am
Thanks for all the tips! I assumed a lot of water was wasted when taking showers, but i had no clue how much was wasted when brushing teeth or drippy faucets!
4 cocoplum real estate // Jul 25, 2009 at 10:02 am
Yeah, if we can implement it we can save water because we waste it and others are in dire need for water. I follow Tip Three and whenever I brush, I turn it off. Will take care next time about my showering usage of water.
5 Blane from Whitening Pen // Aug 16, 2009 at 11:38 am
Those are some mind boggling stats. 12,000 bathtubs full of water and 25,000 olympic size pools! What more does anyone need to hear. I will be checking my 2 bathrooms for leaks this week. Thanks for the motivation.
6 Stephen from Hair Extensions Los Angeles // Aug 24, 2009 at 11:55 am
Not leaving the water running while brushing your teeth is a big one. You can save tons of water each year by doing this.
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