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- Turn off the water after wetting your tooth brush.
After you wet your toothbrush and fill a glass with water for rinsing, turn off
the tap water while brushing.
- Rinse your razor in the sink.
Before shaving, partially fill the sink with warm water. While shaving, use the
water in the sink to rinse the blade rather than running water.
- Don't let the faucet run while cleaning vegetables.
You can serve the same purpose by putting a stopper in the sink and filling the
sink with clean water. If you want to clean your vegetables with running water do
it as a final rinse, which will require less water.
- Check for leaks in pipes, hoses, faucets, and couplings.
Leaks outside the house may not be as obvious since they don't mess up the floors
or drive you crazy at night, but they can be very wasteful. If a faucet leaks one
cup of water every hour, over 500 gallons of water will be wasted in a year.
- Install aerators on all faucets.
If an aerator is already installed on your faucet, the rated flow which should read
2.75 gpm (gallons per minute) or lower, will be imprinted on the side. If the rated
flow is over 2.75 gpm replace the aerator with a lower rated one. If there is no
aerator on your faucet and you want to install one, check to see if there are threads
just inside the tip of the faucet. Most modern faucets are threaded to accept aerators.
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