Georgia is currently in the worst drought in years. Are you looking for ways to help the situation? Here's some easy ways to conserve water:
- Keep your showers under five minutes.
- Soak cooked food off pots and pans, instead of scraping the food off under running water.
- When you're brushing your teeth or shaving, don't let the water run in the sink. Turn it on when you need it, and then turn it back off.
- Drop tissues in the trash, instead of putting them in the toilet and then flushing them away.
- Plants in pots die more from over-watering than under-watering. Water your house plants only as much as they need.
- Instead of frequently running the garbage disposal in your kitchen sink ... put your disposables in a small, Tupperware-style container instead, and then grind them all up together once a day.
- When you wash your hands ... while you soap them up, turn off the water!
- Put food coloring in your toilet tank; if the water in the bowl turns color, you have a leak! Fix it easily to save hundreds of gallons a month.
- Adjust your lawn mower to a higher setting; longer grass holds more water in the soil than a closely cut lawn does.
- Run both the washing machine and the dishwasher only when you have a full load.
- Keep a pitcher of cold water in the fridge, instead of running tap water and waiting for it to get cold.
- Check inside and outside your house for leaky faucets and pipes ... then, fix the ones that need it!
- If you have an older toilet, save a gallon or two every time you flush. Put a plastic bottle with some sand in the bottom inside your toilet tank to displace some of the water you don't need to use.
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