The Great Use Less Water Hunt

Dora_the_Explorer_5

A program on the telly the other night about saving water identified that power showers use 131 litres per shower and baths use 132 per bath.

pavlovs_dog

i think baths are not necessarily a bad thing. for one, it depends on how deep you run them, as the deper you run them, the more water you use.

sharing a bath, of course is another method..either 2 people in it at once, or one after another.

another idea is to use a kettle full of boiling water to help heat the bath. because this is so much hotter than the water that comes out the tap, it takes much less water to get the bath to the desired temperature - alowing for shallower baths. provided your bathroom is at an ambient temperature, this shouldnt be too displeasurable an experience.

save-a-lot

When you really get to a point when you have to clean the car, use a bucket of hot soapy water and a watering can of clean water to rinse. I can easily clean my whole car this way with no need to use a hose at all. Also, last year I tried out waterless valetting products on my car, they were very good.

When summer hits and the temperature in the house is good I will quickly wash my hair and then soap up a sponge, I then turn the water down to a dribble whilst I soap up with a quick blast at the end to get all the soap off. This saves water and makes sure there is still enough hot water to last the day out.

QueenB.

As we don't have a shower in our house we do the bath sharing thing.

But what i am wondering is how about washing machines? Obviously it is best to fill the machine rather than do lots of small half washes, but is there any other way to cut back on this use of water?

RoCas

I misread the title of this thread and thought it said "The Great 'Useless Water' Hunt. I was just about to write a post nominating my water supplier :rotfl: (sorry Martin).

Ken68

The biggest use of water is the lavatory.
To think all that expensive filtered, and refined valuable product just going down the drain.
Building regs should be changed so that all new builds use a greywater system.And in the meantime...pee on the compost heap and use rainwater from a bucket.We need a slogon, similiar to super dooper pooper scooper.:-D

Spirited_2

Must admit that I think it is absolutely ridiculous that we use drinking quality water to flush our toilets whilst there are people in the world who can't get clean water for drinking.

Water Saving...
Don't wash your car at all. Wait till it rains, or wait for the winter. Does it really need to be clean?
Don't bathe pets, it's bad for their skin anyway and they don't need it unless they require medicated baths or have rolled in something awful. (or get a chincilla, they bathe in dust baths).
The old brick or filled plastic bottle in the toilet is a good idea, it reduces the capacity of the systern and I bet you won't notice the difference.

tina68

turn the tap off when you brush your teeth:D
steam your veg and meat, tates soooooooooo much nicer:j
use paper plates and recycle:rotfl:

Penelope_Penguin

tina68 wrote:

use paper plates and recycle:rotfl:

Hi, tina. Am I missing something - I can see that using paper plates saves washing up, but what about resources used in their manufacture, and then the plastic backing staying in landfill for years?

Penny. x

gromituk

Penelope_Penguin wrote:

I've read that power showers use just as much water as a bath, unless you're just in and out. Anyone know if this is true?

Only you can know the answer, by working out just how much water you use for your shower. Time how long the shower takes to fill a container of known volume, then divide this time by the volume of the container, to get the flow rate. You then simply multiply the time you spend in the shower by the flow rate to find out how much water you have used.

If you don't know how much water you use to bath, you can measure the flow rate of your bath taps in the same way, then time how long the bath takes to fill.

Now that they've saturated the market for power showers, manufacturers are pushing "shower panels" with "body jets" etc. Incredibly irresponsible.