What does reducing water usage have to do with reducing energy consumption of a home?

Question

I don't get it. How does reducing water usage in a home reduce the energy consumption in that home? I thought we only reduce energy consumption by reducing electricity usage?

Answer 1

I am giving answer as per my knowledge. in most of the homes people use bore well water or municipal water to have that water in the tanks people use motors and motors use lot of energy. so using less amount of water i.e, by not wasting it we may save a little bit of energy .and I have many more reasons-teja man @yahoo.com

Answer 2

Water collection, water treatment, and water distribution use heaps of energy and chemicals.

Some places are using distilled sea water. That costs a lot of energy too.

Answer 3

More water consumption leads to more energy consumption for the following reasons.

1. Water is energy, wasting it is a waste of energy. maybe not to the end user, but to the whole community (think of hydropower)

2. More water consumption, means more hot water consumption. And hot water is produced via electricity or any other means of energy.

Answer 4

If you wash your clothes in cold water in stead of hot, you are reducing the energy needed to heat the water, same goes for shorter showers.  Those are the only two I can think of.  If you do reduce water usage you are saving water, and you are reducing energy needed to pump the water to your home.

Answer 5

There is electricity used to purify and deliver water.  But saving water is a good idea in general.

Answer 6

Not sure where you are, but in California there is vast amounts of energy to move water from the source to the people.  Much of the water starts in the mountains via snowpack and gravity is used to get it to reservoirs.  But moving water from the reservoirs to the water treatment plant to local water tank/towers takes vasts amounts of energy.

Answer 7

Where do u think the water is getting enough power to go out of the ground? It's getting out with electrical power.