Save Water in Glendale Homes

OIY!!  Are you hot out there?!!

Our Fair City of Glendale invoked mandatory water conservation… but we can do so much better than limiting our sprinklers to 3 days a week.

In fact, Glendale offers free water conservation classes and has a pretty rockin’ website with lots of money saving tips.

Here are a few of my favorite:

• If you wash dishes by hand, fill one half of the sink with soapy water and the other with clean water instead of letting the water run.
• Place a pitcher of water in the refrigerator instead of letting the tap run to get a cool drink.
• Water your houseplants with water saved from washing your fruits and vegetables, waiting for the water to warm up, or even when you clean your fish tank!
• Select one glass to use for drinking each day. If you do this, your dishwasher will take longer to fill up and it will not need to be run as frequently.
• Thaw foods in the refrigerator or in a bowl of hot water instead of using running water.
• Let your pots and pans soak instead of letting the water run while you clean them.
• Purchase an instant water heater for your kitchen sink so you don’t waste water while it heats up.
• Scrape the food on your dishes into the garbage instead of using water to rinse it down the disposal.
• Place a bubble cover on your pool.  Pools can lose an amazing amount of water through evaporation
• A toilet leak can waste lots of water. Put a small amount of food coloring into the tank. If the color trickles into the bowl, there is a leak and repairs are needed.
• Water required to flush some older 3.5 to 7 gallons/flush toilet can be reduced. Experiment by placing a quart plastic (not glass) bottle filled with water in the flush tank to save 1 quart of water per flush. (Don’t use a brick to fill space in your toilet flush tank. Particles from the brick could damage the valve.)  Better yet, replace it with a low flow toilet
• Never use the toilet as a trash basket for facial tissues, etc.
• Turn off shower water while you apply soap to body, or lather hair and massage scalp. Install shut-off valve to stop flow without affecting temperature.
• Turn off water while you shave, brush teeth, etc.