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Bathroom and Kitchen:
| - Repair leaky plumbing fixtures, such as taps and toilets. A dripping tap can waste 30 - 200 litres a day, while a continuously dribbling tap can waste up to 600 litres per day.
- Replace worn out washers.
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- Make sure to turn taps off properly.
- Reuse cold household water, eg don't pour unfinished glass of water down the sink, pour it on the garden.
- With council approval, used water from showers, basins and washing machines can be reticulated to flush toilets or water gardens.
- Install a water efficient showerhead, or put a restricting washer in it to reduce the water flow. An AAA rated showerhead only uses 9 litres per minute.
- Take shorter showers. An eight-minute shower with a standard head uses 120 litres of water.
- Bath children together.
- Shower rather than bath when possible.
- Install a dual flush toilet - or even a composting toilet (subject to council approval).
- Using the half flush on a toilet where appropriate can save a four-person family more than 36,000 litres of water a year.
- To tell if a toilet cistern is leaking, place a few drops of food colouring in the cistern. Wait 15 minutes. If the colouring appears in the bowl there is a leak. A leaking cistern can waste 16,000 litres of water a year.
- Put a water saving device in the toilet cistern.
- Purchase a power and water efficient dishwasher.
- Only use the dishwasher when it is filled to capacity.
- Use the economy cycle on your dishwasher.
- Purchase water efficient appliances - look for the Water Conservation Rating and labelling scheme, introduced by Standards Australia. A = Acceptable, AA = high, AAA = excellent.
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