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That’s a good idea, Spud. I never thought of that, and I do sometimes just lean over the tub to wash my hair. I’ll have to use your trick.

We have also started using the bath water to flush the loo. There are some areas where I feel we use too much water, and so I try and economise else where. So if my toddler has just had a sink bath I put the water down the loo instead of the drain, and get a free flush essentially.

That sounds like a great idea. I never thought of that, and I’ve never heard that tip from anybody else. I think my family wastes a lot of water in the bathroom, or at least more so than everywhere else.

It works great, you just have to be careful to not let the water sit for too long or it becomes stagnant. But you can put some in a bucket and keep it for six hours or so, when you get out of the bath, or can save the first water that runs whilst waiting for the shower to heat up.

You could also conceivably use that water for washing the floor or something—the water that goes into the bucket from rinsing hair or waiting for the shower to warm. I wouldn’t want to use bathwater for that.

Here is a great little device that you put under your sink. It basically catches all of your sink water, filters it and uses it to flush your toilet.

They cost about $200 and they will save allot of water every day. I saw one of these at the architecture convention in San Antonio. Great little product and you can get some LEED points just for using it.

Here is the link:
http://www.watersavertech.com/AQUS-Diagram.html

Wow, never seen anything like that before. It’s a wonderful idea for making your water more usable for other things, but might be a bit of overkill for just flushing the loo. I just can’t see that you need to filter the water quite that much just for a flush.

Yeah, it doesn’t make much sense to me why the water needs to be filtered that much if it’s merely going to flush the toilet. Looks like a great idea though, and not too expensive in comparison to the water it will save.

I have heard of people only flushing the toilet when they absolutely need to, but I don’t think that I could do that. I guess I just get grossed out if there’s anything at all in the toilet.

It’s not so hard when there is only one person using the toilet. Of course you can’t ignore, um, certain things, but for a pee it’s easy to not flush. This is likely to change when my daughter is potty trained of course, but I don’t have a problem with it.

I’m a little reluctant to try this as I’ve actually never heard of it… I’m sure there are other ways I can make up for it.

I would not go as far as not flushing my toilet everytime but the idea about brushing your teeth is a good one. Easy way to save money and save water.

This is a great idea, can you put two in?

Guess who has an empty Dr.Pepper bottle on the counter right now 8)

Also if you are married or close with your live in partner then shower together. That will save you a lot of water if you do it every time instead of taking individual showers everytime.

yea, its also much more fun than showering alone.

That is of course if you love your spouce.

Or if you’re not married you can just invite a couple of your opposite gender friends over. I’m sure they will understand you’re just trying to save water 8)

I started using the bottle in the tank thing, but I’m using a 2 liter. Will that make a big difference in how much water is in the toilet? Should I go get a 1 liter bottle?