Due to an urgent shortage of surface water, Brabant Water is calling on us to use less drinking water. You can do this with simple adjustments, but learning to read the water meter and smartly watering your garden also have a lot of effect. With these five tips you save liters per day.
Brabant residents use an average of 50,000 liters of water per year per person in and around the house. This is evident from figures from Brabant Water. The largest consumers are the shower, toilet and washing machine. In the summer, inflatable pools and garden sprinklers provide hundreds of extra liters.
With these tips you can save liters of water indoors.
- Smart spraying. Water the flowers and plants between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. During the day, water evaporates quickly due to the sun and then plants have little use for the water. It is better to spray well once a week than a little every day. This will make your plants stronger. Furthermore, you preferably water with rainwater in a watering can.
- Bottle with stones in the toilet. Every time you flush, an average of 9 liters of water disappears down the drain. That becomes a lot less if you reduce the number of liters of water in the water bowl of your toilet. Put a bottle of water with stones in it, so that the bottle doesn’t tip over, in the water bowl of your toilet. There is no standing water where the bottle is, so that less water is lost through the water container. That can save one and a half liters of water per rinse. Just make sure that your flushing mechanism is not disturbed by the bottle.
- Discover the leak. With a leaking tap 100 liters of water is lost per day and with a leaking toilet flush up to 600 liters. Detecting a leak is therefore very important and for that you have to learn to read your water meter. Turn off all water in your house and write down the numbers on the water meter. Then write down the numbers you get when you use water. If you then do not use water, but there is a change in your water meter, you have a leak. A flow meter always indicates whether there is a leak in your home.
- reuse. Use water twice if you can. Have you swum out in your inflatable pool? Grab a watering can and water the plants with bathing water. Put a bowl in the shower so that you can flush your toilet one more time with that water. Collect rainwater that flows from the roof tiles and wash your car with it.
- Don’t let anything go. Do not let water run unnecessarily. A long shower is nice, but a short shower is better. Don’t leave the tap running when brushing your teeth, shaving, lathering, or shampooing your hair.
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