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Just taking your daily shower can cost a surprising amount of money - especially if someone in your house likes long showers!
Here's how to reduce the mount of how water you use:
- Rinse dirty dishes in cold water rather than hot before you put them in the dishwasher.
- Don't use hot water to wash your hands at a sink where the water gets hot just as you turn off the tap.
- Installing an efficient shower head if you have mains-pressure hot water could save you around $500 a year. Efficient shower heads have a maximum flow rate of 9 litres a minute but some can be as low as 6 or 7.
- Fixing a dripping hot-water tap could save you over $35 a month. A drop a second might not seem like much but it adds up to more than 80 litres a day – all for the lack of a washer costing a couple of dollars.
- Installing volume-control aerators on taps can halve the water flow through them. The air mixed into the water stream means you don't notice any difference in how well the tap "wets". (But don't use them on taps you regularly use to fill sinks, buckets or baths. You'll end up waiting twice as long.)
Source: www.consumer.org.nz