- Ask Dad to check faucets and pipes for leaks, even the smallest leak can waste 20 or more gallons a day.
- Tell Mom not to let the faucet run while you clean vegetables.
- Put plastic bottles filled with sand or pebbles in your toilet tank. They will displace and save ten or more gallons of water a day.
- Check your toilet for leaks by placing some food colouring in your tank. If colour appears in the bowl you have a leak.
- Take shorter showers, long, hot showers waste 5 to 10 gallons every unneeded minute.