How to conserve?

Question

How can I conserve water in the house?

I want one way that can conserve the most water possible.

Answer 1

route all your taps, showers, and possibly your dishwasher and washer into a tank with a filter that removes large particles. Then route this tank to all your toliets. This way you conserve your water by reusing your water.

HOpe that helps

Answer 2

Without water, all of us would be…well…not here. It is the lifeblood of life on earth and as time goes on, it is becoming harder to find and use for many people on the planet. You would not know it living here in the U.S., but around the world there are tons of places where safe water is hard to find. That being said, there are a few things you can do to lessen your impact on the world’s water supply.

Check your faucets for leaks. If you have a leaky faucet that drips only once per second or so, you are wasting 1 gallon of water per day. Combine all the leaky faucets around the world, and it adds up to a ton of water being wasted.

If you don’t have a dishwasher, be sure to not leave the water running the entire time you are washing dishes. Today’s dishwashers are more efficient than washing all your dishes by hand with the water running, so if you don’t have one, just fill up one side of the sink with soapy water and the other side with clean water, or just turn the faucet on when you need to rinse each dish.

Run your washing machine only when you have a full load of laundry to do. Doing a few half loads during the week just because it is convenient for you wastes a ton of water.

Put something in the back of your toilet tank to displace some of the water. Be it a plastic bottle full of rocks or something else heavier than water, displacing even a liter of water for every flush will save a ton of water. And no, you won’t lose any flushing power.

Turn off the faucet when you are brushing your teeth! This is a huge waste of water as you stand there staring at yourself in the mirror. Get some water on your toothbrush and turn the water off until you need to rinse. Could save a few gallons a day!

Take showers instead of baths. Filling up a bathtub takes a LOT of gallons of water. A quick 3-4 minute shower should be all you need. Of course, I need to work on the wife on this one. (sorry honey)

In above said shower, make sure you have a low-flow shower head. The low-flows of prior days did in fact stink…they gave you a little tiny drizzle that required 30 minutes to wash the shampoo out of your hair. Today’s shower heads use air to make it feel like a regular shower head, so you don’t lose much pressure at all.

For you guys out there who shave at the sink, turn off the water. Just fill up the basin, close the plug, and rinse your razor off in this water until you are all done shaving. Since shaving takes a little while, leaving the water running the entire time can waste gallons upon gallons of water that you aren’t even using.

If you live somewhere that it rains a lot, put some cisterns under your gutters. You can re-use rain water to water plants, clean the car, etc. Some cities give away cisterns for free; I know here in Santa Monica they do but since A. I live in an apartment and B. it barely ever rains, I don’t think I am going to get one.

Fill up a water pitcher with water and put it in the fridge. Getting your cold drinking water from there saves you from letting the water run until it is nice and cold from the faucet, which can save a few gallons a month.

Just because you get water easy at your house does not mean that everyone else does. So be considerate of the everyone else around the world and of the planet, as without clean water we are all goners!

Answer 3

stop watering your garden

Answer 4

Water is very important to conserve because, lakes, sailors, springs, wetlands, moss, plants, fish, and trees need it. Also many people would like to have crusies once in a while and without water we would have cruises or any other water transportations. Plus if you use too much underground water it will be most likely your house would be destroyed by huge sinkholes. It will also spread to a couple of other houses, next door or around. Our food chain will also change without water fish would die, and some islands, or even countries who relies on fish to live will eventually the people will die of starvation, without water people will also die of thirst. Hamburgers, Steaks and other meat product are wasting about 1,000 gallons of water, to raise and feed them. Cow's drink about 200 gallons of water in their lifetime but what about the grass? It takes lots of water to fernish the grass. You wouldn't want to pay large amount of water bills either*So thats why you need to conserve water. *.*

Answer 5

use a combination of different ways. there is no one gd way due to different lifestyle and habits of people.

1. Take showers instead

2. Reuse water from washing machines for other purpose

3. Use water saving equipment

Answer 6

1. check out the daily routine of ur house where most water is used.

2. usually bathing, instead of using the shower directly, use a bucket to bath. in this way u will restrict to only one bucket.

3. Replace small nosels pipes instead of large nosels.

4. Do not let the water flow while u r washing ur hand or tooth brushing. etc.

Answer 7

How to Conserve Energy at Home

Inside This Article

1. Living Efficiently

2. Conserving Energy in All Seasons

3. Conserving Energy in the Kitchen

4. Conserving Energy in the Bathroom and Laundry

5. Conserving Energy Around the House

6. Fireplace Tips

7. Conserving Electricity

8. Additional Tips for Conserving Electricity

9. See all Energy Efficiency articles

                                       Living Efficiently

What is "energy"? Where does it come from? And how do we pay for it? When you learn the answers to these questions, you can also learn how to live more efficiently in your home. In this article, we'll discuss how to be smart about how you use energy, how to know when to turn electrical power on and off, and how to use natural gas, propane, and fuel oil in the most effective way.

Basic Concepts of Energy Efficiency

You can make a lot of progress toward improving the energy efficiency in your home by simply plugging the many places through which air can get in or get out. Plugging your home is called "air sealing," and it is one of the most important first steps to take when weatherizing your house to increase its energy efficiency.

Increasing the amount of insulation in various places in your home should be a high priority. Insulation, in its many forms, helps stop the transfer of heat from one place to another. A good example of this is the insulation in your attic. A thick layer of insulation helps stop heat flow from the house to the attic during the winter. In the summer, that same insulation helps stop heat transfer from the hot attic to the rooms below.

But while better air sealing and insulation in your home can do a lot to reduce your utility bill, that's not where the story on energy efficiency starts and ends. There are many other ways to conserve, some of which require only simple changes of habit or lifestyle.

Electricity powers lights, appliances, and electronic devices in your home. It also runs air conditioners, heats water, cooks food, dries laundry, and in some cases is used for space heating. Natural gas, propane, and oil are mostly burned to provide space heating and hot water; and secondary uses for these gases include cooking, clothes drying, and fireplace fuel.

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­ ­Electricity: Electricity enters a home through a service-entry cable either above or below ground. From there it passes through a main electrical service panel containing fuses or breakers and is distributed throughout the house through wires, receptacles, and switches. Electricity is billed to the consumer by the kilowatt-hour (kWH). Each kWH costs approximately 8 to 15 cents, depending on where you live and your utility company's fees.

One kilowatt-hour equals 1,000 watts of electricity used for an hour. To understand how kilowatts are calculated, picture a 100-watt lightbulb. Burning that bulb for one hour uses 100 watts of electricity. If it burns for 10 hours, that equals one kilowatt (100 watts 3 10 hours = 1,000 watts, or one kilowatt). And burning that one bulb for those 10 hours costs between 8 and 15 cents.

Natural gas: Natural gas is delivered to homes through a network of underground pipes. After natural gas passes through a meter outside of a house, the gas is piped to where it is needed inside -- to a furnace or boiler, water heater, or gas fireplace -- through a series of smaller metal pipes. Natural gas is billed to the consumer by the cubic foot of gas used.

Propane: Propane, or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), is transported by truck from a utility or gas company to a storage tank on a homeowner's property outside the home. From there it enters the house through a pipe and is distributed via a system similar to that used for natural gas. Propane is billed by the gallon.

Oil: Fuel oil is also transported by truck, is pumped into a storage tank either inside or outside the house, and is piped to the appliances where it is needed. Fuel oil is billed by the gallon as well.

So that's how energy arrives at your house and how it is billed. What happens after that -- how you use these energy supplies -- has everything to do with how large your utility bill is at the end of the month. Every time you turn on a light or a TV, use hot water, or switch on the air conditioner or furnace, you consume energy.

Watch the Thermostat

Dialing down: In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appeared on national television for the first of what were later dubbed "energy speeches." The country was going through an oil crisis, and Carter advised us to "dial down" our thermostats. His line of reasoning was that, by reducing the temperature in our homes, we could conserve heating fuel.

President Carter's words of nearly 30 years ago still ring true today: The best way to conserve energy is to not use so much of it. And one of the best ways of reducing the use of heating fuel in the home is to simply turn down the thermostat.

Because space heating constitutes the largest energy expenditure in many homes, even a little conservation of heating fuel goes a long way toward achieving a lower utility bill. Dialing down the thermostat one degree during the winter can result in about 1 to 3 percent less fuel use, and a similar reduction in your heating bill.

A furnace or boiler has to maintain a differential in temperature between the inside of the house and the outdoors in order for the house to feel comfortable. On cold days that difference can be as much as 50 to 60 degrees (say, 20 outside and 70 inside). Any time the differential can be reduced, even by a degree or two, the heating system comes on less often, less fuel is burned, and savings result. The downside of turning down a thermostat, of course, is that the house is cooler. But Carter had a solution for that -- simply slip on a sweater. That makes sense, too. Instead of turning up the heat to increase the overall warmth in the huge volume of space inside the house, you can simply increase your personal insulation to help retain body heat.

Though dialing down might seem a hardship at first, after a while your body will adjust to the "new normal" house temperature and wearing sweaters and socks inside will become a part of everyday life.

Dialing up: The concept of dialing down can be reversed for energy savings during the warm months. "Dialing up" is an effective method of reducing the cost of cooling a house with room or central air-conditioning.

The same principles apply: The less the temperature differential the air-conditioning system has to maintain between the inside and outside, the less often the compressor comes on, the less electricity is consumed, and the lower the utility bill.

Instead of setting the thermostat to the point that the air-conditioning system makes the house cold, try dialing it up a few degrees and adjusting your clothing to deal with the slightly warmer temperature. Chances are you'll never notice the difference. And, as is the case with heating, dialing the thermostat up when you're away from the house results in lower energy consumption.

Close Empty Rooms

If there are rooms in your house that aren't being used, shutting the doors to those rooms results in an overall reduction in the amount of area that the heating and air-conditioning systems have to heat and cool. When a child moves away from home to go to college, or when parts of the basement aren't being used, isolating those areas from the rest of the house means less demand in terms of heating and cooling, and a lower energy bill. The less space you need to supply with conditioned air, the less often the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems will need to operate.

Stay Under the Covers

Many people prefer to "sleep cold," and they don't mind turning down the thermostat into the low 60s or mid-50s at night. Some even like to turn off the heat entirely in the bedroom and sleep with a window open. Those who are comfortable dialing back this dramatically are able to reduce their heating fuel consumption substantially at night, as the heating system does not have to maintain a large temperature differential between the inside and outside.

For those not so inclined, there are means available to stay warm under the covers, even while dialing back the thermostat. Down or synthetic-filled comforters provide insulation with little weight. And electric blankets generate warmth at a small cost in electrical energy.

Answer 8

Conserve what? Pickling things? For as conserve/economising/ saving energy and the like consumables? Ask you self if the big consumers really give a d**n/care about? Then you should get concerned about such trivial thing!t