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Q: What is the biggest water-user in the home?

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A: Inside the house, the toilet is the biggest water-user because we flush so many times a day.

Modern, high-efficiency toilets use less than 2 gallons of water per flush.  If you cannot replace your older toilets, consider placing bricks and/or milk jugs filled with water in the water tank.  Also, be sure to fix leaky toilets.  They can waste 200 gallons of water every day!

We recently replace one of our old toilets with a dual flush toilet.  Push the big button for a big flush, small button for a liquid flush.  Kids of all ages find the dual flush toilet fascinating.  The technology was perfected years ago in  Australia, where water shortages are critical.  Our dual flush toilet cost no more than a good quality regular toilet.

When Matthew gave a talk at a seminary, one of the women present was from South Korea.  She said that the biggest surprise to her was not the big grocery stores or huge malls but the fact that we emptied our bladders in drinkable water.  

FYI… only 3% of the earth’s water is fresh.  Americans flush 4.8 billion gallons of freshwater down the drain every day. Many experts are predicting that water will soon become the new oil, with shortages causing upheaval, war, and death.  Saving water can literally save lives.

 

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