What are your favorite water-saving tips and tricks? • Offbeat Home & Life

My electric kettle and water bottle have a symbiotic water-saving relationship.

There’s a severe drought in my home state of California (again). This concerns me. So I’m doing what I can to conserve water.

Here are my top water-saving methods:

letting it mellow
installing water saving flow regulators
taking short showers
teaching myself to turn off the tap while I brush my teeth (it’s sad how hard this habit has been to break)
Re-using water from my hot water bottle by heating it up again in the electric kettle (instead of waiting for the sink water to get hot).
Discarding water I don’t need (like from a hot water bottle once my cramps disappear) to water the house plants.
And studying the comments on this post about how to hand wash dishes without wasting too much water.

I’m sure there’s more I could be doing that I just haven’t thought of yet. Seriously, that electric kettle to get hot water thing… JUST realized that I could be doing that so recently that it’s embarrassing.

So I ask you, Homies: What are your favorite water-saving tips and tricks?

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Comments on What are your favorite water-saving tips and tricks?

One other person mentioned this in the comments, but I think it’s a good tip, so I’m going to repeat it:

– Use a [small] shaving bucket. Fill the bucket with a little water for rinsing your razor, then refill and use fresh water to rinse your legs when you’re finished. I do live in an area with cold winters, so from November-April, I find that the bucket method really only works after a shower when the bathroom is nice and steamy and warm. Otherwise, my legs go all goose-fleshy and shaving is deeply unpleasant.

While I am all for saving water wherever we can, I think that it is crucial to address the BIGGEST source of water waste: the meat industry. Reducing the amount of meat we consume will drastically lessen the amount of water we waste. I really recommend everyone looks at the numbers:
http://www.gracelinks.org/1361/the-water-footprint-of-food

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