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Archive for the ‘Water’ Category

August 3rd, 2008

How You Save Water

Thanks for participating in last month’s water conservation poll. We’ll have a new one in the sidebar soon.
What measures do you take to conserve water?
I’m not listing each answer, but here are some highlights:
• Most popular answer (aside from “At least 5 of the above”) was turn off water while washing dishes and brushing teeth […]

By Peggy -- 4 comments

July 30th, 2008

Wear & Wear Before Wash

Since July is almost over, we’ll be taking down the water poll in a couple of days. Please take it if you haven’t. It’s in the sidebar.
In glancing at the poll results, I’m a little surprised that only four voters have said that they wear clothes more than once before washing. But we did include […]

By Peggy -- 13 comments

July 22nd, 2008

Building & Installing a Rain Barrel

If you can get past the guy in the intro with the unnaturally tall mustache, then you’ll learn how to build a rain barrel from a food barrel. The video also goes into installation and maintenance tips, as well as some interesting facts. It’s 4:57 from HGTV.
If you’d prefer written directions, go to HGTV’s […]

By Peggy -- 1 comment

July 19th, 2008

Help me out here - which is worse - wasteful trash or wasting water?

Remember when I posted about ice pop molds? Well, I got three sets of the Tovolo Molds, and we really like them. It’s the first time we’ve had single style molds, and the first summer we’ve been completely ice pop trash free. We did used to make homemade pops, just not as often because the […]

By Jennifer -- 12 comments

July 17th, 2008

10 Handy Water-saving Tricks

Not tricks exactly, but they’ll work like magic to keep you from wasting water. Most of us know about low-flow shower heads, but have you thought of all the other little ways to save water?
Didn’t finish that glass of water? Pour it into your window box or the flower bed outside instead of down the […]

By Peggy -- 5 comments

July 16th, 2008

What’s grey water?

Grey water isn’t exactly gray. And some people call it graywater, grey water, or gray water. Confusing, eh?
Unless Jennifer disagrees, I’m going to call it grey water.
Grey water is any water that has been used in the home: shower, sink, laundry. Toilet water shouldn’t be reused. Grey water can be used for different purposes, like […]

By Peggy -- 0 comments