How can you save water?

• We consume very little water for drinking and cooking. You can usually get most of the water. R. save with the toilet, then when doing laundry and finally when showering and bathing.
• You should have and implement good resolutions all year round. Saving water is a good resolution that is easy to achieve.

How to save in the bathroom and laundry room

• To save water, get a cistern for your toilet that has an economy button. Or have a stop button built in so that only water flows as long as you keep the button pressed. In a pinch you can alternatively (temporarily, if you want to act immediately) a brick, a bottle filled with water or screwed-on glasses or similar filled with water in the cistern place. Then less water flows into the cistern and when you pull, less water flows which is wasted. If necessary, simply pull twice in a row if necessary.
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• Take a shower instead of a bath. The water consumption is usually much lower (only around 50 to 100 liters instead of around 150 to 200 liters).
• You can also use a so-called. Install "shower stop". The point is that you can conveniently press "Stop" when you are soaping yourself up without having to find the water temperature you have set again.


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• With a water-saving shower head you can save water in a tricky way. A water-saving shower head mixes the water with air.
• Only wash when your washing machine is as full as possible. However, the alternative of washing laundry by hand is not necessarily recommended. As a rule, you use more water than when you use the washing machine.
• How old is your washing machine? Today's washing machines use much less water than models from twenty years ago, up to 50 percent.
• Turn off the water supply (under the sink at the corner valve) a little so that the water does not come out with full force the line shoots, and that makes sense if only the hands are to be washed, for example at the sink for the Guest toilet.
• Stop the water flow when you lather your hands. With so-called Single-lever mixers can do that with the elbow.
• Replace the aerators on your fittings to save water. The standard aerator resp. Aerators do not add as much air to the water as is necessary. (However, this is only possible if there is a certain water pressure.)

So you use less water in the kitchen

• Using a dishwasher is more economical than hand washing dishes if you want to save water. Only turn it on when it is full. It is not necessary to pre-wash the dishes "by hand". There is also often an economy button on your dishwasher that you should turn on to save water.
• Never let the water flow out of the tap when you are not using it.
• Vegetables (potatoes, etc.) can also be washed in a suitably sized bowl instead of in the sink. This also reduces water consumption.
• If you want to save water, always wash dishes in one larger wash-up and not every plate, fork, and pot individually.
• You don't necessarily have to rinse out yogurt pots and other plastic containers for the yellow bag. If a smell develops that you don't like, or if you fear mice, go to the yellow bin with your accumulated plastic waste and collect plastic waste in a bucket Lid.

How to save water in other places

• Do you wash your car every weekend? Ask yourself whether this really has to be the case, because this can also save a lot of water.
• Use your shower or bath water after showering and bathing to wipe up your apartment with a damp cloth.
• If you own a garden, put a water barrel / cistern there and collect rainwater to water your garden with.
• Often times you have to run the hot water tap for a long time until you have warm water. There are so-called "intelligent" pumps that can help.