water conserving tips?

[wildthing]

So... setting aside the politics and agriculture and environmental usage being significantly higher than household use (we should rethink golf courses, for example), here are a few things coming from someone who lived in a part of a third world country where water was rationed, i.e. tap has nothing between 8AM and 8PM.

1. Quick baths. 5 minutes. One bucket (4 gallons maybe). No showers. Not enough water pressure.
2. Short hair = less rinsing.
3. Working from home = skipping shower that day.
4. Climate-appropriate/native plants.
5. Car in garage = fewer car washes.

[pavulon]

Great Lakes region looks better and better with each passing year.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by pavulon

Great Lakes region looks better and better with each passing year.

Look up PFAS then get back to me.

[cabmandone]

Use more cologne... take less showers

[vash]

Originally Posted by cabmando

Use more cologne... take less showers

I just got a new bottle of the stuff a totally hot salespersons sold me when she said, "this is the stuff that Brad Pitt wears". she could have said damn near anything and I was..well, bewitched. she bewitched me.

my wife thinks it smells awesome on me, so there is that.

[rusnak]

You know what, I'd pay the fines in order to not save up my poo and pee in the toilet. Fk that noise.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by rusnak

You know what, I'd pay the fines in order to not save up my poo and pee in the toilet. Fk that noise.

You don't save up your poo. You flush poo.

You do however save your pee.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by vash

I just got a new bottle of the stuff a totally hot salespersons sold me when she said, "this is the stuff that Brad Pitt wears". she could have said damn near anything and I was..well, bewitched. she bewitched me.

my wife thinks it smells awesome on me, so there is that.

For some reason I had this in mind as I was reading that

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by masraum

You don't save up your poo. You flush poo.

You do however save your pee.

Yes, right you are. My bad!

[p911dad]

Originally Posted by masraum

You don't save up your poo. You flush poo.

You do however save your pee.

I saw this in a bar restroom on the island of St. John (water is imported by tanker from St Thomas or from cistern system) "If it's yellow let it mellow, if brown flush it down"

[red-beard]

You could install a waterless urinal in the bathroom

https://www.airdelights.com/sloan-falcon-waterfree-urinals-and-cartridges.html?msclkid=1c2f8009e2bf17d69983e0ae4f 208c57&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=AD%20-%20Waterfree%20Urinals&utm_term=waterless%20urinal&utm_content=WaterFree%20Urinals

[cabmandone]

Back to when you're fishing... Bring the week's worth of laundry and each time you "accidentally" fall in, change into dry clothing and then "accidentally" fall in again. Two birds with one stone! You're clean and now your clothes are too!

[herr_oberst]

Stick a bucket in the shower. When it fills up you can use that water to flush.

(And it never rains in California, it pours. Yeah it pours.)

[GH85Carrera]

I am always amazed that the politicians from 75 years ago in Oklahoma had some foresight. They built a lot of lakes for drinking water. Oklahoma City metro area is under water rationing, but not from lack of water, but the processing and pumping ability. OKC provides water to dozens of other smaller cities as well as the residents of the city itself.

Right after WW2 the city got busy building several lakes, and the city owns the property where future lake will be. Developers want to build on that area, but the city blocks it, and it will be a lake when the real need comes along.

All the lakes are fed by rain water. A few inches of rain over the state flows into the rivers, and the lakes fill up. With several inches of rain the lakes become flood control lakes, and they do a great job. The city has plans to build more water treatment plants and pumping facilities.

The newest lake is just a few miles from my house. Built in 1984 it is right along I-35 and Rt-66.

https://edmondok.com/338/Arcadia-Lake

[WPOZZZ]

Take a shower at the gym.

[porsche930dude]

we have always put soda bottle filled with water in our toilet tanks to take up space. Also the fill valve that squirts water down the overflow into the tank if you position that so it only squirts half is water down the tube or use a Y fitting it fills the tank quicker and fills the bowl just enough without sending any down the drain.
This is the first iv heard of dual flush valves but I dont know if id bother with that. We use clorox tabs and the complicated parts probably wouldnt hold up to it. Plus it costs money

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by cabmando

Save water! Shower with your wife.

Unless you are Higgins.

[pavulon]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Unless you are Higgins.

That's showering with the wife and a kid from the pool.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I am always amazed that the politicians from 75 years ago in Oklahoma had some foresight. They built a lot of lakes for drinking water. Oklahoma City metro area is under water rationing, but not from lack of water, but the processing and pumping ability. OKC provides water to dozens of other smaller cities as well as the residents of the city itself.

Right after WW2 the city got busy building several lakes, and the city owns the property where future lake will be. Developers want to build on that area, but the city blocks it, and it will be a lake when the real need comes along.

All the lakes are fed by rain water. A few inches of rain over the state flows into the rivers, and the lakes fill up. With several inches of rain the lakes become flood control lakes, and they do a great job. The city has plans to build more water treatment plants and pumping facilities.

The newest lake is just a few miles from my house. Built in 1984 it is right along I-35 and Rt-66.

https://edmondok.com/338/Arcadia-Lake

We've done that in California, too. (Have you read the Mulholland thread here on PPOT?) But the population of the entire state of OK is 4 million people, and OK City about 650K.

The population of LA County is about 8 or 9 million people, and the state of CA 45 million.

[Zeke]

If you use Google view you can see the number of lawns and swimming pools in SoCal.

Both should be outlawed. I have only 250 sq ft of lawn and it takes too much water for my liking. Soon it will be watered by only gray water. My whole front yard is planted with natural and not thirsty plants. One deep rooted magnolia that shades the house in the morning as well as the low growing plants. I had a feature strip of grass out there that I'm going to hit with Round Up this weekend. I'm tired of dicking around with it when bordered pebbles with stepping stones will serve the same purpose, to allow the mailman to cross the yard w/o having to go down the neighbor's steps and back up mine. He has a tough route when it comes to steps and stairs.

I digress. Lawns suck, literally and there is no need for this. I can wash a car completely using 5 gallons of water and the 2-3 bucket system. Keeping them highly waxed helps a lot. I'm not paying 18 bucks to get my truck washed even if they use the same water for a year. They use a lot of energy which is also part of the problem.

I wash the dishes in the sink and I use the DW as a drying rack. I do lot of stuff like that and So Cal Edison says I use 38% more electricity than 20% my neighbors. I didn't know we had cave men living nearby. I do leave lights on all night as we live in a high crime area. It's not just my neighborhood, which is a very nice historical district, but we are surrounded by what most of Long Beach looks like, a fooking ghetto. Thieves patrol the place like ants.

Cops are nowhere to be found. They're too busy over in the ghetto while some of that population is over here stealing anything they can.

I digress still, sorry. [/rant]