More Tips on How to Save Water in the Bathroom
In my last post, I focused on how much water we can save if we just turn off the faucet while brushing our teeth. In this post, I will give you more tips on how to save water and money in the bathroom.
1. Use pail and “tabo” instead of shower or bath tub. Filipinos’ use of dipper is actually a water efficient technique. You can control the amount of water to pour on your body while you are taking a bath when you use a tabo or dipper.
2. Avoid taking long showers. You don’t have to stay under the shower for 30 minutes. One minute of shower uses at least half a gallon of water. If you take a bath for more than 10 minutes, that’s 10 gallons of water wasted every day. If you are using pail and tabo, use only the water that you really need for your daily bath.
3. Turn off the shower while you are soaping or shampooing.
4. While shaving, don’t clean your razor on running water from the sink faucet. Use tabo to clean your razor or plug the drain so that you’ll have water stored in the sink.
5. Use recycled water when taking a bath. During summer when there is scarcity of water, there are many Philippine households who store water whenever there is rain. Drums and pails are used to collect rain water. We can do this all year round, not just during summer. The collected rain water can be used in the bathroom.
I’m sure there are many other ways you can think of to save on your water consumption. If we conserve water today, we will have more storage of water in our dams when the El Nino or the summer season comes.
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