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Saving water in the home: These tips help the environment and your wallet

2023-01-08T14:07:04.531Z


Saving water in the home: These tips help the environment and your wallet Created: 2023-01-08 14:56 By: Ines Baur The dripping faucet is a waste of drinking water. (Iconic image) © Jimbophoto/Imago A dripping faucet isn't just annoying. He wastes up to 120 liters of drinking water a day. Saving water in everyday life works in many ways. Like putting a plastic bottle in the toilet tank, install


Saving water in the home: These tips help the environment and your wallet

Created: 2023-01-08 14:56

By: Ines Baur

The dripping faucet is a waste of drinking water.

(Iconic image) © Jimbophoto/Imago

A dripping faucet isn't just annoying.

He wastes up to 120 liters of drinking water a day.

Saving water in everyday life works in many ways.

Like putting a plastic bottle in the toilet tank, installing a shower timer, or fixing the faucet. 

Munich - Drinking water is often a little-noticed, self-evident good in this country.

Which is accordingly wastefully dealt with.

On average, every person in Germany uses almost 130 liters of drinking water in their household every day.

Not a drop in the bucket: Saving water in everyday life helps the environment and your wallet.

It wasn't long ago that the whole of Italy suffered from water shortages.

In Germany, drought is not only an issue for farmers.

Save water in the household and reduce it at the largest "water consumer".

According to Greenpeace, the activities that consume the most water on a daily basis include: bathing, showering and washing hands at 36 percent.

Then flushing the toilet with 31 percent, followed by doing the laundry with twelve percent.

Nine percent of water consumption is used for cleaning, seven percent for washing dishes and five percent for cooking.

If you want to save water, you should start in the bathroom.

A lot of water is used when showering, bathing, brushing teeth and flushing the toilet.

When flushing the toilet, there are simple and inexpensive tricks - such as the plastic bottle trick - to save water.

Save water with technical gadgets

Water-saving shower heads are not only worthwhile for those who shower a lot.

A conventional shower head uses between twelve and 15 liters of water per minute.

After ten minutes of showering, that's 150 liters.

This amount can be reduced to around half with a water-saving shower head.

The shower head mixes oxygen with the water so that the water pressure remains the same, but only around 6 liters of water are used per minute, according to the news channel

n-tv.de.

Another neat gadget is a shower timer.

It is attached to the bathroom tile with a suction cup.

Anyone who jumps into the shower presses the button that measures the shower time to start.

Colors show how long you have been showering.

If the light flashes red, more than twelve minutes have passed.

Fix leaky taps and save up to 120 liters of drinking water per day

Fix leaky faucets.

That may sound petty at first.

But a single dripping tap can waste up to 120 liters of drinking water a day, and a leaky toilet flush up to 600 liters, according to Greenpeace.

To find out if there is an undetected leak in your home, all the water is turned off.

Then you write down the meter readings of the water meter.

If these rise, there is obviously a leak somewhere.

If you cannot identify them yourself, you should consult an expert.

Save water with an intelligent new device purchase

Older dishwashers or washing machines use a lot of water.

If you buy a new device, you should opt for A-classified household appliances.

Old or new - users should only run dishwashers and washing machines with a full load.

Source: merkur

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