Samui Phangan Real Estate Magazine October-November

WATER
SAVING WAYS
FOR YOUR HOME
Without water, all of us would be…well…not here. It is the most essential
requirement of life on earth and as time goes on, it is becoming harder to
find around the world. The islands have suffered both floods and droughts,
that being said, there are a few things you can do to lessen your impact on
the world’s water supply.
Check your taps for leaks. If you have a leaky tap that drips only once per
second or so, you are wasting almost 4 litres of water per day. Combine all
the leaky taps around the world.....insane!
Fill up the sink. If you don’t have a dishwasher and do your dishes by hand,
then just fill up one side of the sink with soapy water and the other side
with clean water, or just turn the tap on when you need to rinse each dish.
Use your washing machine only when you have a full load of laundry
to do. Doing a few half loads during the week just because it is convenient
for you wastes so much water.
Turn off the tap when you are brushing your teeth. This is a huge waste
of water as you stand there staring at yourself in the mirror. Get some water
on your toothbrush and turn the water off until you need to rinse.
Take showers instead of baths. Filling up a bathtub takes a LOT of water.
A quick 3-4 minute shower should be all you need.
Use a low-flow shower head. Low-flow shower heads use air to make
it feel like a regular shower head, so you don’t lose much pressure at all.
Shaving at the sink? Turn off the tap Just fill up the basin, pop in the
plug, and rinse your razor off in the water until you are all done shaving.
Since shaving takes a little while, leaving the water running the entire time
can waste so much water that you are not even using.
Don’t use your toilet as an bin. Every time you flush a cigarette butt, facial
tissue or other small bit of trash, 19 to 26 litres of water is wasted.
Put something in the back of your toilet tank to displace some of the
water. Be it a plastic bottle full of rocks or something else heavier than water,
displacing even a litre of water for every flush will help save more. And no,
you won’t lose any flushing power.
Just because the water comes out of the tap at your house easily, doesn’t
mean that other people around the world are as lucky. Water is such an
important resource and one that is becoming more and more scarce. So
be considerate to the planet and start doing your bit, just by doing some of
the above will make a huge impact on the planet and our water reserves!
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