Changes in Lifestyle
There are numerous ways you can save water. You can purchase water efficient products and install them. This means you can fix and forget. You can install the product, and you don’t have to alter your behavior in anyway. However, there are also things that you can do for free which save water.
- Turn the tap off when you brush your teeth – a running tap wastes 6 litres of water a minute. If everyone in the UK who currently leaves the tap running when they brush their teeth turned it off instead – we would save 446 million litres of water – enough water to supply 2.9 million people for one day – that’s the entire population of Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow and Sheffield (the UK’s 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th largest cities) for one whole day.
- Don’t use your toilet as a dustbin – an unnecessary flush uses another cistern full of water. Put your face wipes, cotton wool balls in your dustbin rather than down the toilet. If everyone in the UK who currently uses their toilet as a dustbin, stopped doing this, we would save 27 million litres of water a week – that’s enough to supply the population of York or Portsmouth for one day.
- Use the left over water from your night time drinks to water houseplants – this saves new water being poured into the plants and your drink being poured down the plughole.
- Invest in a water butt and connect it to your drainpipe in your garden - this can then collect some of the 85,000 litres of rainfall that falls on your roof every year. This water can be used to water your garden, clean your car and wash your windows
- Install a cistern displacement device in your toilet – these can be obtained free of charge from your water company and displaces water in your cistern so that the volume of water in your flush is reduced by between 1 – 3 litres. To see which displacement device you should get please look at our toilet flushing page. Please note, that you do not need a cistern displacement device if you have a dual flush toilet.
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- Turn the tap off when you brush your teeth – a running tap wastes 6 litres of water a minute. If everyone in the UK who currently leaves the tap running when they brush their teeth turned it off instead – we would save 446 million litres of water – enough water to supply 2.9 million people for one day – that’s the entire population of Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow and Sheffield (the UK’s 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th largest cities) for one whole day.
- Don’t use your toilet as a dustbin – an unnecessary flush uses another cistern full of water. Put your face wipes, cotton wool balls in your dustbin rather than down the toilet. If everyone in the UK who currently uses their toilet as a dustbin, stopped doing this, we would save 27 million litres of water a week – that’s enough to supply the population of York or Portsmouth for one day.
- Use the left over water from your night time drinks to water houseplants – this saves new water being poured into the plants and your drink being poured down the plughole.
- Invest in a water butt and connect it to your drainpipe in your garden - this can then collect some of the 85,000 litres of rainfall that falls on your roof every year. This water can be used to water your garden, clean your car and wash your windows
- Install a cistern displacement device in your toilet – these can be obtained free of charge from your water company and displaces water in your cistern so that the volume of water in your flush is reduced by between 1 – 3 litres. To see which displacement device you should get please look at our toilet flushing page. Please note, that you do not need a cistern displacement device if you have a dual flush toilet.
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