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Top 10 Tips

Top tips to help you save water around your home and garden

  1. Use a bucket! It really is the simplest and easiest grey-water system available! Place it in your bath or shower, scoop out bath or basin water, place it in the sink when you are washing fruit and vegetables and if possible, catch the water from your washing machines last rinse cycle. You’ll be amazed at just how much water your conserve.

  2. Connect a grey-water diverter to your outdoor piping and collect grey-water in a large container. Remember grey-water must be used within 24 hours unless it has been treated.

  3. Ask your plumber to install a permanent grey-water system. If thinking about a grey-water system, speak with your local council for advice and approval.

  4. Install AAA rated water efficient showerheads and flow control valves on your tapware.

  5. Check for leaks! Inspect both your indoor and outdoor taps, pipes and plumbing fixtures for leaks. Just one dripping tap can waste 2,000 litres a month.

  6. Mulch, mulch and mulch! Mulching helps to conserve moisture in the soil and keeps weeds at bay. If you live in a bushfire prone area, you could try using materials such as gravel, decomposed granite, course river sand or stones.

  7. Use your plug! Put the plug in the sink when washing your hands or rinsing dishes instead of holding them under running water. Washing fruit and vegies in a half-filled sink instead of under running water is another way you can cut back on water wastage.

  8. Try to only use your washing machine when you have a full load.

  9. Shave at the basin not under the shower. Put a timer in the shower so everyone knows when their 4 minutes is up.

  10. Water your garden for longer but less often. This will promote deeper roots and hardier, healthier, drought tolerant plants. Depending on the restrictions in your state, remember to only use a hand-held hose with a trigger nozzle, watering can or install drip irrigation (about 12 millimeters of water an hour is enough for most sessions.)

  11. For more information on adapting to the water restrictions come into True Value Hardware
    – we’ll make it easy.