Arizona is well known for its heat. Once the prolonged summer months roll around, the possibility of a drought increases. Regardless of whether a water shortage occurs, it is always a good thing to preserve water: for you and your water bill, but also for the planet! The same rules for saving water apply to your outside water use as well as your inside use. Here are some helpful tips when it comes to everything water:
Leaks are a real thing. Test your shower and toilet for leaks. One way to do this is to leave your water meter running for a couple of hours without using water at your house. You can usually locate your water meter in your front yard, under a metal plate in the ground which protects it from weather.
[Water Meter, Photo by DC Water]
The meter should not move as you are not using water. If it has moved, that means there is a leak.
You can also install water efficient shower heads (or additions that fit onto your already existent shower head) or toilets that use less water. Installing new appliances is not that expensive and can save you literally thousands of gallons every year. If you would not like to go the route of replacing anything, new inventions which preserve water such as the toilet tank bank are an easy way to go.
Be Smart About Your Water. Do you have a leftover pitcher of water from the dinner table? Use that water for your pet's nighttime drink or put it back in the fridge for later. Just dumping water down the sink is wasteful. Also, when you are washing dishes, don’t leave the water running. Fill up the sink instead and rinse that way. Funnily enough, dishwashers use less water than washing by hand. So, load your dishwasher and then wait until it is full before running. No need to do everything by hand.
When it comes to laundry, don’t run small loads. Get an efficient washer and wait until you have a full load to wash. Washers use so much water! Wearing clothes and using towels more than once saves a lot of laundry time and H2O.
Don’t leave your water running. It is easy to forget gallons of water are running down your drain when you are thinking about your long day during a shower. However, even less than a ten-minute shower can still use up to thirty gallons of water! The same applies for your outside lawn or rosebushes. If you are hand watering and leave the hose, set a timer.
Preserving water is one of those things that is not hard but can be wonderfully rewarding (like seeing a reduction in your expensive water bill!). Water and air-conditioning are some of the main expenditures when it comes to living in the desert.
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