- Brush Your Teeth. Turn off the tap when you brush your teeth. You'll conserve up to 5 gallons of water per day. Throughout the entire United States, the daily savings could add up to 1.5 billion gallons--more water than is consumed per day across all of New York City.
- Shaving. Instead of letting the water run when you brush your teeth, brush while you're waiting for the water to get hot for your shave. You could save time and money on water, up to 1,825 gallons of water per "brushaver" each year. This much water would fill your bathtub more than thirty-five times!
- Shower Curtains. Avoid using plastic liners(you don't really need them) with your shower curtains, and you'll keep unnatural vinyl plastics out of landfills. PVC plastic amounts to 1.23 million tons per year, and none of it is recyclable.
- Toilets. Try to flush just one less time per day, and you,ll save about 4.5 gallons of water-- as much water as the average person in Africa uses for a whole day of drinking, cooking, bathing, and cleaning.
- Tub. Plug the drain in the tub before turning on the water when you take a bath. You'll save time and money. The average bathtub faucet flows between three and five gallons of water per minute. Just one less gallon of water used per person in the United States per day can add up to more than one hundred billion gallons per year. This amount is greater than the volume of rainwater that falls each week on Lloro', Colombia--the wettest place on earth.
Hope these hints help. They are from "the green book" . Please buy the green book. Please read the green book. Please go to www.readthegreenbook.com. It may save you some money and it just may help save the world!!
Happy Saving!!!!
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