Public materials on water conservation

Save water when taking a shower

Use a nozzle to take a shower: (1) Learn to adjust the ratio of hot and cold water. (2) Do not leave the water on the nozzle all the time, let alone leave it open. (3) Get wet from head to toe as much as possible, then apply soap and scrub the whole body, and rinse thoroughly for the last time. Do not wash your hair, upper body, lower body and feet separately. (4) When taking a bath, you must concentrate on taking the time and do not take it leisurely or chat while washing. Don't even have a big fight with your best friends in the bathroom. Remember: time is water! (5) Do not use the opportunity of taking a bath to wash clothes and shoes "by the way". When taking a bath in the bathtub, be careful not to fill it with water. 1/3-? basin is enough.

Water Saving in Toilet

(1) If you think the toilet water tank is too big, you can put a brick or a large Coke bottle filled with water vertically in the water tank to reduce water consumption. Amount of water for each flush. However, be careful not to place bricks or Coke bottles that impede the movement of water tank components. (2) The water tank always leaks the most. If the water inlet sealing rubber is not tight, the water will not stop filling. When the water is full, it will flow away from the overflow hole; if the water outlet water sealing rubber is not tight, the water will continue to flow away and the water inlet pipe will not stop. Water enters the ground. (3) Use collected household wastewater to flush toilets, which can be used for multiple purposes and save clean water. (4) Regardless of size or thickness, garbage should be removed from the garbage channel and should not be flushed with water from the toilet.

Tips to solve leaking toilets

In the past, the bucket in my toilet often leaked. I came up with a simple and easy way, and after using it for almost a year, I have basically solved the leakage problem. The main reason why the water tank leaks is that the copper wire used to connect the handle to the leather bowl is often stuck, preventing the leather bowl from falling. If the leather bowl cannot be lowered, it cannot completely block the leakage, leading to water leakage. You can twist a plastic belt into a plastic string, pass the plastic string through the iron ring on the leather bowl, pick up both ends and connect it to the handle rocker. The plastic rope is strong and not afraid of blisters, so it needs to be replaced every six months. Users with leaky water tanks may wish to give it a try.

How to save water in a washing machine

Washing clothes in a washing machine is labor-saving and convenient, but it also has a shortcoming, that is, it uses three-fifths more water than washing by hand. How to save water as much as possible? You may wish to insist on washing more than three pieces of clothing in the washing machine, and insist on washing one or two small items by hand. In particular, you must insist on shaking off the foam first and then rinsing, so that the clothes will be clean after rinsing them twice. As a result, more than one-third of water can be saved.

One water for multiple uses

(1) After using the face wash water, you can wash your feet and then flush the toilet. (2) A large bucket for collecting waste water should be prepared at home, which can fully guarantee the amount of water required for flushing the toilet. (3) Rice washing water and water used to cook noodles can be used to wash dishes and chopsticks to remove oil and save water. (4) The water used for fish farming can promote the growth of flowers and trees.

Washing tableware to save water. When washing tableware at home, it is best to wipe off the oil stains on the tableware with paper, then wash it with hot water, and finally rinse it with more warm or cold water.

Toys are children’s close partners. However, some toys (such as water spray guns) consume a lot of water and are not worth recommending, especially in areas where water resources are scarce. There were also some naughty teenagers who had a water fight with each other under the faucet of the tap water. The water splashed everywhere and they were very happy. Unknowingly, the clean ground got wet, and the passers-by were scared to avoid the large amount of water. Also wasted. How bad!

In winter in the north, water pipes are easy to freeze and crack, causing serious water leaks. Special attention should be paid to prevention and inspection. For example, (1) the covering sand washed away by floods in the rainy season must be filled before winter to prevent the shallow soil from freezing and damaging the water pipes. (2) Antifreeze equipment (antifreeze plugs, antifreeze wooden boxes, etc.) must be installed on faucets and water pipes outside the house. (3) If there are icy areas in the house, they should also be wrapped in torn sacks and wrapped with straw ropes. (4) For houses with water pipes, seal the cracks in doors and windows, and pay attention to thermal insulation inside the house. (5) Once the water pipes are frozen, do not use fire or boiling water (this will cause water pipes and faucets to be damaged due to sudden expansion). You should wrap the faucets with hot towels to help thaw them.

Household water records

As the saying goes, writing diligently saves thinking. If you record the readings of your home water meter at a regular time every day (at a fixed time in the morning or evening), there will be many benefits. (1) The water consumption per day, month, and year can be easily calculated, and paying water bills is no longer blind. (2) Since the water consumption situation has been recorded, you can see whether there is any waste, and you will know where to start saving water.

(3) It is not very difficult to write down one note every day, but it is not very difficult to do it every day for several months or several years, which is a moderate test of perseverance, perseverance, patience and carefulness. (4) Write down this running account to see changes in water consumption. What is the relationship between this change and factors such as temperature, cloudiness, dryness and humidity? Is it related to changes in family living standards (purchasing electric fans, refrigerators, air conditioners, changes in eating habits, etc.)? Who says this is not scientific research?

Flow rate is the amount of water flowing out (flowing through) per unit time (such as 1 second). Measuring the flow of tap water at home is the same as measuring the flow of the Yangtze River, but the methods are different. First prepare a regular bucket and calculate its volume (for example, 18.6 liters); then prepare a stopwatch, an ordinary watch will do. When measuring, first open the faucet to the maximum extent and wait for the water flow to balance. When the bucket is full, stop the timing and read the duration (for example, 23.4 seconds); the measured flow value is the volume divided by the duration, that is 18.6/23.4=0.795 liters/second. For the sake of reliability, measure three times and take the average of the three results. If a water meter is installed in your home, you can know the amount of water passing through the meter by reading it, making it easier to measure the flow.

Water-saving experiment

When you think of a water-saving method, it will be interesting to do an experiment yourself. For example, if you put bricks in the toilet water tank, you can know the changes in primary water consumption by measuring the flow. From household water use records, we can also see the changes in water consumption in a day and a month, and we can roughly estimate the amount of change.