Use less in the sink

In the grand scheme of simple things to do, turning the tap off while brushing your teeth is up there with remembering to breathe. You don’t need a degree in tap turning off studies; you don’t need the hand-eye co-ordination of a Chinese ping pong player – you just need to turn the tap back round from whence it came. It’s such an easy thing to do – and if everyone in England, Scotland and Wales did it, we’d save 446 million litres of water a day.

Here are some other great ways to save water:

• Household leaks account for a staggering 15% of indoor water use. So get yourself a leak detection kit on the double. And fix those dripping taps while you’re at it.
• About 85,000 litres of water falls onto your roof each year – so it makes sense to collect some in some sort of water butt or other. This site has nice ones shaped like a Roman column, a beehive, and even a giant rock. And if you wanted to be ironically post-modern you could even get a butt-shaped butt.
• If you’re really serious about conserving water, a rain harvesting system like this one or this one can collect rain water, filter it, and pump it throughout your home for all your non-drinking needs.

More info from the Green Thing wiki >>

Here's a thing……every day in London, around 300 Olympic-size swimming pools’ worth of water are lost through leaks. If we don’t get that sorted by 2012, the 400m men’s butterfly is going to be a complete non-event.

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