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Water Conservation:

The Facts and What you Can do About it.


What is water conservation?
GOALS
 Understand the Need for Water Conservation.
 Understand the Need for Monitoring, Submetering, and Leak
Detection.
 Be Familiar With How Water Pressure Relates to Water
Conservation.
 Understand the Principles of Water Recycling and Water Reuse.
 Be Familiar With Cooling Water Conservation.
 Be Familiar With Industrial Water Conservation Measures.
 Understand Bathroom Water Conservation Measures.
 Understand the Basic Principles of Xeriscape Landscaping.
 Understand the Importance of Water Conservation Education and
Employee Participation.
Why conserve water??
Continue…
Typical Household water use
Water Facts
 Bathroom claims nearly 75% of water use
 In 1990, the average person used 183
gallons of water per day.
 The water use is about 50% higher in the west
than the east.
Ways to conserve water
Ways to conserve water
Rainwater Harvesting for
Consumption
 Cost less than $1500
to build
 Softer Water: 5mg/gal
of dissolved minerals
as compared to 500 in
city water.
 Cut water use by 95%
 Many use similar
system for laundry
and toilets.
“Sawdust Toilet”
 When used, add layer
of sawdust to absorb
odors.
 When full, empty into
compost pile
 Some save urine
separately. Can be
diluted and used on
plants for its nitrogen
richness.
Another Somewhat
Extreme Idea
H2O House
Bath
Toilet Talk
Toilet Tidbits
 A family of 4 uses 881
gallons of water per
week just to flush
their toilet.
 If everyone flushed
one less time a day,
we could save enough
water to make a
square mile lake that
is four feet deep
everyday.
Toilet
 Improved
Toilets madetoilets
before
can1993,
save use
a family
between 3.5
and 8 gallons
between 14-17per
thousand
flush. gallons of water
 per
Neweryear.
toilets use less than 1.6 gpf.

 Some cities and
This becomes utilityuse
a water companies offer
difference of 9.7
incentives
gallons perranging
day from $25-100 or free
toilet replacement.
Saving water
 Add bricks or two liter bottles filled with
water to your tank to reduce lpm.
 Add food coloring to the tank, wait 30
mins.
 Running water while shaving or brushing
teeth, wastes more water than what one
person needs for an entire week.
Shower
Shower improvements
 Take shorter showers
 Replace shower head
with water savers that
use 2.5 gpm or less
 Do not take baths. The
typical bath uses over 50
gallons of water.
 Consider collecting
excess water for use on
house plants.
What is Grey Water and Dual
Plumbing?
 Grey water is domestic wastewater from
sinks, tubs, and clothing washers that is
used for lawn care
 Dual plumbing is a process of recycling
water by having to separate drainage lines
to the city utility. St. Petersburg, Fl
currently is using this process.
Grey water system or Dual
Plumbing

 Not monitor
Must legal inplants
some for cities and states.
over fertilization This
and watering.
 Must be careful about ingredients in laundry soaps and
stifles the ability to market
cleaners, some can harm your plants.
and sell this
 technology.
A family of four can create 30-40 thousand gallons of
Will keep
 water, your
if system plants
is used to fulland lawn thriving in
potential.
drought conditions.
 Provides lots of organic materials for the
plants as well.
The Car Wash
 A 15 min. car wash
uses 100 gallons of
water.
 Use a bucket of water
and rags instead
 Go to a commercial
car wash that reuses
their water.
Xeriscape: History
 The purpose of
Xeriscape was to
popularize landscape
water conservation
and to educate people
about the importance
of water to humans
and other life forms.
Benefits of Xeriscape
 Reduces water use
 Reduces fertilizer use
 Reduces pesticide use
 Lower maintenance costs
 Reduces runoff
 Preserves Topsoil
 Drought Tolerant
 Lower maintenance needs
Using your water meter to
conserve
 Leaks can account for more than 10% of a
typical families water bill.
 On a straight reading meter, read it just
like a car odometer.
 A “round reading dial”:
 Start with the 100,000 ft dial and work around
to the 1 ft dial. If between numbers round
down.
Examples of the dials

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