Saving Water at Home

Water, being such a valuable resource, should never be wasted. When running the faucet to get hot water, collect the water in a bucket or cut-up gallon milk bottle. We live in a small house and we can fill two, gallon milk jugs of water before the water is hot.

We remove the white flexible hose that connects to the gutter and pour the collected water into our rain barrel outside the house. When it rains, the rain water from the gutters goes straight into the rain barrels. We use this water for watering plants in our backyard. It hardly rains in Southern California, and whatever water we collect reduces our water consumption.