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Shop nowWe all need to think about how to save water at home. Despite its apparent ease of access, our water supply is not free and is not infinite. Water is precious. We share a planet where safe drinking water is not equally available to all, yet we all need it to survive - we literally cannot live without it.
This is sometimes hard for us to grasp in the UK, where we’re a small island surrounded by water and it seems to rain more often than it doesn’t. Yet we’re always one dry spell away from a water shortage.
We’re all familiar with climate change, rising temperatures, and the prospect of warnings to not waste our tap water after a couple of weeks of no rain. So , when our natural supply of water is increasingly becoming imbalanced, how can we balance the flow in our own homes? In this article, we share some top water saving tips that will help you reduce your water usage.
Saving water is important for a few different reasons. It saves the planet by keeping more water in wildlife and reducing the stress on ecosystems; it reduces energy consumption by minimising the heating and filtering that’s needed in water production; and it saves you time and money.
Our local water companies capture far less rain than we might assume. 12 out 23 water companies in England are classed as being under stress.
Most of us aren’t aware of the extent of our water consumption, and we assume we each use around 50-100 litres a day. Yet, on average, we currently go through around 140 litres each every day.
We’re using almost twice as much water as we were 60 years ago and our demand is only set to rise. This puts stress on the planet, as we’re needing to use more water to provide for everyone.
It drains the supply of our most precious commodity quicker than we can refill it. In turn, ecosystems are put under stress as their homes are being destroyed.
By reducing water usage, water companies won’t need to resort to using more and more water, and the planet’s wildlife can live peacefully.
Lots of energy is needed to filter, heat, and pump water to your home. By reducing water usage and lessening the demand for water, there won’t be as much energy needed to produce water (especially at times when water is in high demand).
Figuring out how to save water will not only help protect our planet, but it will help reduce your energy bills and generally improve the efficiency of your home and garden.
Heating the water in our homes constitutes a significant chunk of our energy bills, and demanding more tap water only puts the water companies under more pressure to collect, treat and pump more and more water into our homes more quickly. This uses up more and more energy, costs more money.
Follow these water saving tips to help bring down your household costs and do your bit to help protect the future of our planet.
Simply adding these to your daily routine will eventually become a habit and will save vast amounts of water.
Hopefully here we’ve given you lots of ideas on how to reduce water usage at home. While some of them are a bit more involved, others are super easy.
Even if some of them mean a bit of an upfront cost, in the long term they’ll be saving you water, and saving you time, energy and money.
These water saving tips will also help save the planet at a time when climate change not only threatens our weather patterns, and therefore our supply of drinking water, but also the natural environment for thousands of species of wildlife.
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