An Easy Tip To Stop Wasting Water
You will all recognize yourself in what I am about to describe. We are all guilty of this behavior though some of us are definitely serial offenders. You meander over to the kitchen sink to get a nice cool glass of refreshing water. You turn on the tap only to realize that the water coming out is not to your standards as it isn’t cold enough. So you let the water run at the highest setting, and stand there waiting for it to reach the right temperature for your drinking pleasure. Your mind drifts off to other things and never once stumbles upon the thought of how the water poring down the drain is perfectly drinkable.
You could be wasting up to an entire gallon of water while you wait to get but one glass to drink. Did you ever realize that? The same holds true for the hot water when you run it long enough to get to an acceptably high temperature to plug up your sink and fill it with dishes.
When you crunch the numbers by the amount of people in your household, the time they spend at the sink using this method of temperature determination and multiply that number by the times in the course of each day that they perform this ritual, you come to see how substantial the water being lost is over a year. All of the small amounts add up over time to very big amounts.
If you could plug up your sink and let it accumulate all the water that is instead going down the drain, you’d get a sense of just how much water is being lost. It’s easy not to notice the loss as it’s happening a little at a time because you don’t have the awareness, so I don’t blame you.
One of the possible solutions to this problem would be to install an additional smaller sink that captures the excess water while you wait for the running water to reach an acceptable temperature.
By installing this small sink in the cabinet underneath your regular sink, you are creating a containment for the water rather than having it diverted directly to the sewer system. The water that is being contained, is called “gray water” and even though it may have some soapy residue, household cleaning products or organic matter mixed into it, this water is recyclable for use in watering your lawn or indoor plants.
Having this containment sink is a benefit as you always have a system in place to collect this water making it immediately available to use.
In contrast, “gray water” that is captured from washing machines, dishwashers and bathtubs, being full of chemicals and detergents must be pretreated before it can be reused. So even though you can still recycle this water, it is quite labor intensive if you want to get the best use out of it.
Although our planet is covered with water, only 1% of it is drinkable. So the next time you go to the sink for a glass of water, give some thought to just how much you are wasting and try to set a goal for yourself of reducing it. In this sense, a little really does go a long way.
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