REDUCE
Why reduce water usage when it rains all the time in Swansea?
Treating water uses up energy and the production of energy creates carbon so you can reduce water usage to reduce your carbon footprint.
Also using less heated water in the home reduces your carbon foot print and saves you money.
There are several ways to reduce water usage:
- Take a shower instead of a bath, though power showers can use as much as a bath)
- Turn of the tap when brushing your teeth
- Don’t wash up under running water
- Install taps which act like a shower rather than deliver a solid stream
- Install dual flush toilets
- Put a brick or Hippo in your cistern so it uses less water
- Water your garden at night so that water soaks in rather than evaporates
- Get water butts and save rain water for the garden
- Compost – a garden with loads of humus in the soil doesn’t need watering as much as the soil holds more water
