Do you know how much water you and your family use each day? The answer may surprise you and hopefully, it will cause us all to make some necessary changes. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), average American families uses approximately 400 gallons of water per day and “70% occurs indoors.” Water is our most precious commodity. We can’t survive longer than three days without water. We can last longer without food, but not water. In a message to the press, actress Kristen Bell, said, “The average US household wastes about 10,000 gallons of water every year: enough to fill a backyard swimming pool.” Wow, that’s a lot of water!
Of course, we not only use water for drinking, but also for cooking, cleaning, flushing toilets, washing clothes and also for our own personal hygiene purposes during bathing and brushing teeth etc. Can we stop using water all together? Obviously not; however, we should be conscious of how we can do our own part in our own households to conserve water. If everyone did his or her part, the work would get done. Take that same perspective into your water use.
Now, even if you’re not one of the save-the-world kind of people, have you checked your water bill lately? There are simple tips that you can begin doing today to start conserving water and saving on your own water bill. Now isn’t that motivation enough?
Ms. Bell teamed up with Neutrogena and The Nature Conservancy for a campaign Jump In. Jump Out. Join In. campaign to conserve water. The major goal of this campaign was to conserve five million gallons of water and “bring awareness to domestic water issues.”
So where can you start? One thing that we do in our household and I’ve grown up doing this in my parent’s house (what can I say, my mom was always conscious of trying to save on her water bill)—don’t let the water in the faucet run. Whether you’re washing dishes, brushing your teeth or washing your face, you don’t need to leave the water running the entire time you’re doing any of those tasks. That’s a very simple way to start conserving water.
Another thing that you can do is to take shorter showers and don’t fill up the bath water as high as you usually do, or at least start taking quicker showers rather than baths all the time. For the ladies, shaving in the shower takes longer and uses up more water. I’ve started to turn the water off while shaving. I have a container that I leave in the shower to fill up with water to rinse the razor in.
For other ways to conserve water, check out this article from Women’s Health Magazine: Six Simple Ways to Save Water. What are you doing to conserve water?
Of course, we not only use water for drinking, but also for cooking, cleaning, flushing toilets, washing clothes and also for our own personal hygiene purposes during bathing and brushing teeth etc. Can we stop using water all together? Obviously not; however, we should be conscious of how we can do our own part in our own households to conserve water. If everyone did his or her part, the work would get done. Take that same perspective into your water use.
Now, even if you’re not one of the save-the-world kind of people, have you checked your water bill lately? There are simple tips that you can begin doing today to start conserving water and saving on your own water bill. Now isn’t that motivation enough?
Ms. Bell teamed up with Neutrogena and The Nature Conservancy for a campaign Jump In. Jump Out. Join In. campaign to conserve water. The major goal of this campaign was to conserve five million gallons of water and “bring awareness to domestic water issues.”
So where can you start? One thing that we do in our household and I’ve grown up doing this in my parent’s house (what can I say, my mom was always conscious of trying to save on her water bill)—don’t let the water in the faucet run. Whether you’re washing dishes, brushing your teeth or washing your face, you don’t need to leave the water running the entire time you’re doing any of those tasks. That’s a very simple way to start conserving water.
Another thing that you can do is to take shorter showers and don’t fill up the bath water as high as you usually do, or at least start taking quicker showers rather than baths all the time. For the ladies, shaving in the shower takes longer and uses up more water. I’ve started to turn the water off while shaving. I have a container that I leave in the shower to fill up with water to rinse the razor in.
For other ways to conserve water, check out this article from Women’s Health Magazine: Six Simple Ways to Save Water. What are you doing to conserve water?