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 with 15% of the vote.

• Eating little or no meat claimed 7% of the vote. It takes a lot of water to get a package of beef to the store. . .

• Compost instead of using the garbage disposal and wear clothes more than once both came in at 6% of votes, while taking fewer showers/baths received 5% of votes.

• And it seems most of you do a mixture of all the choices with 46% of the vote as “at least 5 of the above.” In retrospect, that choice probably made this poll confusing to interpret. I won’t do that again.

And a different sort of poll –

Here are the most read water posts at Tree Hugging Family in July:

Green Product Review: SIGG Water Bottle

Green Product Review: Klean Kanteen Water Bottle

Dishwashers Use Less Water

Easy Toilet Leak Test

10 Handy Water-saving Tricks

As Jennifer mentioned, we’ll sprinkle in more water posts throughout the year. And if you have some students in your family, please don’t miss all the Back to School posts at Tree Hugging Family throughout August.

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Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes, and green challenges going on at Tree Hugging Family in August 2008