Reducing Your Water Wastage – Easy ways to conserve water in your home
Does this sound familiar to you? You walk over to the kitchen sink to get a drink of water from the faucet. Turn on the water, feel it first and realize it’s not cold enough. So, you stand there waiting for the water to cool down some more until it meets your standards.
While your water faucet is gushing like a fire hydrant, you don’t realize what perfectly fine drinking water you are wasting.
By doing this, you are effectively wasting up to a gallon of drinkable water just for one glass of cool water.
We don’t realize how much water we are wasting on a daily basis. It’s not until you figure the numbers and factor in how many people live in your house that let the water run for a cold glass of water. Even the smallest amounts of water waste adds up over time.
We don’t fathom how much water we waste because it simply just “disappears” down the drain. If we were to plug the drain and run the water like we usually do, we would have a totally different outlook.
So, what can you do to help reduce this water waste? How about this:
Adding a small sink that capture excess water.
This smaller sink is placed underneath your kitchen sink to gather the water that otherwise would go directly to the sewer. This collected water is then known as “gray water”. This water can be reused to water plants or your lawn as it is still relatively clean and contains minimum soapy residue and is ready for immediate use.
Gray water also has it’s other side. Water collected from washing machines and bath water needs to be treated before it is reused because of the chemicals and detergents mixed in. This doesn’t mean you can’t reuse it, it just means it will take a little more effort to be able to reuse it.
The planet is covered in water, we all know this. But, less than 1% of the earth’s water supply is actually drinkable. Think about this next time you are at the sink waiting for colder water. A little change can make the biggest change overtime.