What’s gray, clear and green all over, the best guilt-free way to water your lawn and garden? Instead of sending all that nearly clean water from your tub soak down the drain, send it out to soak your roses. Self-styled gray water guerillas have recycled household water on the sly for years. But now thanks [...]
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You don’t have to wait for government regulation to start conserving water. There are many things you can start doing today to reduce your personal water “splashprint” (think carbon “footprint”). Just as people jumped on the recycling bandwagon and started carting their recyclables to neighborhood centers long before municipalities began curbside pickups, it’s time for [...]
Like ozone-eating pollution, the growing threat of water crisis demands that people take matters into their own hands and not wait for effective government intervention, which always seems to come too late. There are quite a few things that you and I can do to quickly and easily reduce our personal water consumption. We’ve proven [...]
Little boys in Pennsylvania were happy, but their parents weren’t pleased. A water crisis last week meant no baths and McDonald’s for dinner in many homes. Low water tank levels in Washington County outside Pittsburgh caused Pennsylvania American Water to ask residents to voluntarily stop using water for showers, dishwashing, flushing, cooking or drinking. Drinking [...]
Declaring the drought officially over, Georgia has turned the water spigots back on after two and a half years of tight water restrictions. Generous spring rains have rehydrated the state, refreshing groundwater levels and replenishing Lake Lanier which supplies much of the state’s water. Georgia officials applauded citizens for adopting water conservation habits that cut water [...]
Mandatory water conservation schedules
Water conservation rebates
Water restriction plans
The heat of summer is still two months away and parts of the country are already feeling parched. Drought has hit some parts of the U.S. hard, forcing cities and states to implement mandatory water restrictions, limit or even halt outdoor watering, and offer rebates to encourage people to voluntarily [...]
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Everything old is new again! Remember that childhood song, “Playmate come out and play with me …” There’s a line that goes, “Jump in my rain barrel …” As a kid I had no idea what they were talking about. I grew up in the city during the wasteful ’60s where there always seemed to [...]
Americans use 13 million gallons of water every minute of every day, much of it to flush the country’s 300 million toilets. The older the toilet, the more water used per flush. Before 1980, toilets used a whopping 7 to 5 gallons per flush. Better technology allowed toilet manufacturers to drop that to 3.5 gallons [...]
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Las Vegas residents are ripping out their lawns to save water. The measure may seem extreme in a city that boasts more than its share of impressive fountains; but after years of excess, the desert dwellers of Sin City are having a tough time meeting basic water needs. The current water shortage calls for desperate [...]
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It’s exciting to contemplate some of the amazing ideas floating around the scientific community to save water, save energy, save the environment, and, ultimately, save the planet. In the future, a swimming pool full of water could provide enough energy to power the world (see our last post). In the future, technology could allow us to reclaim, [...]