1. Check your toilet for leaks.
Add a few drops of food coloring to your toilet tank. If, without flushing, the color starts to appear in the bowl., You have a leak that wastes more than 100 gallons of water per day.
2. Avoid using your toilet as an ashtray or wastebasket
Each cigarette butt or tissue you remove also pours five to seven gallons of water.
3. Place a plastic bottle in your toilet tank
For its weight, place an inch or two of sand or pebble on the bottom of a liter bottle. Fill the remaining bottle with water and pour it into your toilet tank, away from the operating system safely. In the average home, a bottle saves five gallons or more of water per day without compromising toilet capacity. If your tank is large enough, you can even put it in two bottles.
4. Take small showers
A typical shower uses five to ten gallons of water per minute. Rinse your shower with soap and limit the amount of time you can get up and down.
5. Install a water-saving showerhead or flow resistor
Your hardware or plumbing supply store will store inexpensive showerheads or flow regulators that will reduce your shower flow from three to ten gallons per minute instead of five. They are easy to install, and your shower is still clean and fresh.
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