Sherpa Tips – Water Saving
There are many ways you can save water around your house and yard so I’m going to offer a variety of water saving tips today (and I’m sure more in future posts as well). Water conservation is very important, and will undoubtedly become even more so as time passes, climate changes, and world population continues to soar.
A lot of water-saving tips may seem “common sense”, but as ‘they’ say, “whats common sense is not always common practice”.
Water Saving Tips
Indoors
Don’t leave water running while brushing teeth (only turn on briefly to rinse)
Limit the amount of running water you use for doing dishes and in general when using the kitchen sink. If you know you’ll be needing to run the water for a bit (waiting for it to warm up, washing fruit/vegetables, rinsing glasses/plates etc) place a catch container (large pot or small bucket perhaps) in the sink. This water can then be used to water household or garden plants.
Use water from cooking for watering plants (once cooled off) as well.
Cut back on your shower time – its amazing what you can do in a few minutes. If you need to do any sort of shaving, do it with water off (then turn on to rinse).
Use the shower rather than drawing a bath – showering uses far less water. Using a water-conserving shower head is even better still.
Outdoors
Collect rain water (using rainbarrels)
Use a watering can rather than the hose – its much more targeted, uses far less water, and is good exercise as well.
Don’t water a peak heat times – you want to make sure the plant gets as much as possible, plus it reduces the chance of burning the leaves.
Use mulch and groundcover plants to help reduce evaporation from soil.
Stay tuned for more water-savings advice in future Sherpa Tips.
Written by Bentley on August 1st, 2006 with
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