Water Saving Tips

There are many easy ways to save water

Top Tips:

  • Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth. Keeping it running can waste around 8 litres per minute
  • Have a shower instead of a bath, it uses a third of the water
  • Install a water meter which makes you more aware of how much you are using.
  • Only fill the kettle to the amount you need, saving both water and electricity.
  • Choose water efficient sanitary ware - look for loos with a short and a long flush.
  • Retro fit a dual flush device like the ecoBETA to your existing cistern
  • Don't use your washing machine until you have a full load.
  • Fit a flow deduction device like Tapmagic to your taps.
  • Fit a Water Saving Showerhead
  • Of course, don't forget to buy a water butt to collect rainwater from your roof for use in the garden.

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Shower heads A replacement shower head can save you money on your water and energy bill and the cost of the showerhead can be recovered in as little as three months. Water butt 85,000 litres of rainwater falls on the average roof each year. Use a Rainsaver® Water Butt to collect some of this water for watering the garden, washing the car and cleaning your windows. Compost bin Digging compost into your garden means that the soil will retain water – so less watering is needed. Tapmagic Tapmagic saves up to 70% of water consumed at a wash basin or kitchen sink. EcoBeta Toilet flushing accounts for 30% of our daily water use. Older toilets can use more than 10 litres per flush more than newer models. Fitting a dual flush device like EcoBeta can save 10,000 litres of water per household per year. ? DID YOU KNOW THAT …Cutting each shower taken by just one minute could save a family of four £40 per year? - This is based on a family of four cutting one minute if their shower – with a flow rate of 9 litres and each person taking 0.6 showers per day. ? DID YOU KNOW THAT …Each person in the UK uses 150 litres of water per day and that this consumption level is not sustainable in the long term? ? DID YOU KNOW THAT … If everyone who leaves the tap running whilst brushing their teeth turned it off we would save enough water to supply the populations of Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow and Sheffield for one whole day? ? DID YOU KNOW THAT…. Fixing a dripping tap can save enough water each year to supply one person’s daily water needs for one month. ? DID YOU KNOW THAT … Enough rainwater falls on the average roof each year to fill one of our water butts nearly 450 times over? - This is based on a water butt having capacity of 188 litres or less – is this correct? ? DID YOU KNOW THAT … Filling a bottle with tap water and putting it in the fridge saves running the tap waiting for the water to run cold.