Have you though about water efficiency in your house, do you think its time to come up with a plan of action. I have had a look at the usual water-saving websites and come up with a series of things you can do, roughly in order of difficulty.

1. Find out total water use for 2007, so we can tell when we’ve actually made a significant change.
2. Check for leaks and fix them.
3. Check how we use water: this means going down the lists of water-efficiency steps like shorter showers, only running the washing-machine on full, etc and making sure that we actually do them.
4. Get flow aerators or something similar for our taps.
5. Get a shower-head with a water-efficiency rating.
6. Change your toilet to a dual-flush.
7. See if it’s worth upgrading your washing-machine to a more efficient model or not.
8. Make the garden more water-efficient, look into rainwater tanks, greywater systems and so on.

Tags: , efficiency, Energy, house, rainwater recovery, Water

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