I can’t take credit for dreaming up any of these but here are some super easy things you can do to help conserve water at home. Some of the very obvious things you can do are like not running the water while you brushing your teeth or setting a timer when your watering plants or grass. But there are a lot of little things that add up to serious water conservation around the house that you may not have thought of.
1. Have a bucket by your shower to catch water normally wasted while you’re waiting for the shower to warm up. I really like this one because the bucket serves two purposes. A. It makes for a good fresh water bowl for the dogs, and B. You can water house plants from the bucket.
2. Do the same as above with your kitchen sink. When we are getting ready to do the dishes, use a pot (dirty or otherwise because plants don’t mind a little bit of spaghetti in their water) to capture that sink water while you wait for it to warm up.
3. Capture condensation from your A/C return pipe. In the summer time in South Texas, we captured as much as 5 gallons per day of A/C condensation. Once again, great for plants. In the summer months, when I got that much water, I also used it to fill my water harvesting barrels for more long term storage and use.
4. Dog bowl water, and half-empty cups of water that you leave on the night stand all make good plant water. There’s no reason to throw that water down the drain. House plants aren’t terribly picky when they are thirsty.
