What would be some good home water conservation ideas for the water crisis in georgia?

Question

I am doing a project (poll) on what people think for ideas for saving water AT HOME to help with the water crisis throughout georgia. Your answer can beas creative as you want, but this is a project, and i need serious answers.

Answer 1

Take shorter showers and turn off water or turn down pressure of water while soaping/shampooing.  Turn it back on or up to rinse.

Wash dishes by hand in a full sink, or at least don't double wash (washing before putting in the dishwasher).

Only wash clothes when you have a full load.

Only flush the toilet when needed (if it's yellow, let it mellow).

Don't run the water unless you're using it.  It seems obvious, but not everyone practices it for some reason.

Make sure you don't have any leaky faucets.  Fix any leaks found.

Keep a bucket in the shower to catch the water that runs while waiting for it to warm up.  This can be used to water plants, wash a car, etc.

If you have a yard, keep it planted with green things.. the plants will help absorb water and cut down on run-off.  There's a particular style of gardening for this, but I forget the name.

Use rain buckets to catch rainwater.

Don't use fresh water to water the garden, use the caught water from showers/rain buckets.

If you do use fresh water, water only at night and don't over-water.  Make sure the water used is actually hitting the target spot and not "watering" the driveway or other area where it will just cause run-off.

Wash a car only when necessary, not just when wanted.  

Wash a car on grass if possible.

Any glasses of drinking water not finished can be used to water plants.

That's all I can think of right now..

Answer 2

I thought all that rain that's been going on for the last few weeks had already taken care of that problem.

But still, there are many ways to conserve water.  For one thing, you could save the water that comes down during the rainy season and funnel it from your gutters into large tanks where it can be used during the drier times.

Water retention and conservation methods are used all over that area of the country.  I read where in north Georgia the department of agriculture digs out low areas and dams them up where they meet rivers, creating lakes and ponds to hold water for times when it's needed.

Most new business parks do the same thing.

Of course, it's good not to waste water either if you can help it.

Answer 3

Tuesday Smith has some really good ideas. Recycle all the water from your sink and bathtub, the soapy water shouldnt hurt your plants if you buy a biodegradable kind. Use a dish pan to was dishes and when you are done, water your plants with it, same goes for your bath, fill the tub when you shower and bucket it out to water palnts or your lawn with...makes perfect sense, oh and dont leave the water runnin gwhile brushing your teeth!

Answer 4

Put a brick in every toilet water box. The volume of the brick will reduce every flushing of the water box by an equivalent water volume. It is a simple solution and costs nothing. Imagine if this was done in all the toilets all over the states. Please guys who are taking Arithmetics 101 calculate the daily water savings!!!

Answer 5

Water that is used to irrigate, be it lawns or gardens, is the main loss of water to be concerned about as far as a whole state is concerned. Water that returns to the ground and sinks in, or which can be reclaimed further down stream is not lost at a state wide level. Water that goes into the air, as in irigation, is lost unless it happens to fall again as rain.

Now we can capture rain in tiny thimbles or we can use horizontal berms running across the country side on a horizontal contour. We can build significant reservoirs that can hold all the water that will fall in a couple wet years to get us through  several years of severe drought.

When our rivers are about to flow into the oceans, we can do a final rescue, pumping that water back up to reservoires up-country. This offsets a lot of leaky fawcets and long showers.

Many small dams and ponds can build up the volume of water in our aquifers. The problem with a lot of this is that private owners of these reserves tend to go on using them for luxury irrigation even when the rest of the state is parched. After all, that is what they built the reserve for. And after all, having those private reserves does serve the public good too. We want to encourage private reserves,but private reserves should not be drawn from public waterways when there is a drought in place. Depending on where the private reserve is, it may always be getting water from public waterways, In this case it will be necessary to restrict irrigation from that private reserve during drought, just as it is necessary to prhibit drawing from aquifers for irrigation during a drought.

Answer 6

Shower with a friend!

Before yard sprinklers, there was Mother Nature.

Dig a well & put a few filters on it.

Buy up-dated washing machines that use 3/4 less water to do the same cleaning job.

When you brush your teeth, instead of letting the water run while your doing it, run a "glass full" to rinse.

Answer 7

best way is to save the rain water in barrels also maybe time to look at old technology something called a cistern this was a underground tank or trough in the basement of homes  years ago ask your grandparents they may remember someone WHO had one the cistern collected the rain water for use in the home during dry spells