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Tips to Save Water

By practicing the following tips you can help conserve water. 

What you can do indoors: How much you can save:
Turn off the water when you brush
your teeth.
3 gallons per day
Shorten your showers by one or two
minutes
5 gallons per day
Fix leaky faucets 20 gallons per day
Wash only full loads of laundry 15 to 20 gallons per day

 

What you can do outdoors:

How much you can save:

Water your yard only before 8 a.m.
to reduce evaporation and
interference from wind.


25 gallons per day

Install a smart sprinkler controller.

40 gallons per day
Use a broom instead of a hose to
clean driveways and sidewalks. 
150 gallons each time.
 

Check your sprinkler system for leaks,
overspray and broken sprinkler heads.

500 gallons a month.

Talk to your family and friends about saving water.  If everyone does a little, we all benefit a lot.