[ cafechi ] slightly organic

i got my first issue of natural health magazine and i scanned through it. i did read the article about taking 5 minute shorter showers on the last page. for a family of 4, that would save more than 30,000 gallons of water a year!! oh my! the article also offer suggestions on how to conserve.

i then visited these sites, h2ouse.net and flex your power, which are very helpful.

i found out that one of the toilets in our house is a new model, at 1.6 gpf (gallon per flush), and the other toilet is an older model i believe because i can’t find anything on it. it’s a mansfield 160. oh well…it works and flushes great though so i don’t know exactly how much water it uses.

both our shower heads are not the slow flow ones so we’re using much more water than we need to. per the magazine article, pre-1994 shower heads uses 5-7 gallons per minute. i searched around and found this: delta fluidics adjustable shower head. it uses 1.85 gallons per minute! wow! i’ll probably be ordering it soon. it’ll cut down on the energy bill and help us conserve water.

i also found these for our sinks (kitchen and bathrooms): aerator for kitchen and aerator for bathroom sinks. they use 2 gallons and 0.5 gallon per minute respectively. i mean, how many times have i (or you) feel guilty about how fast the water run? especially in the bath sinks? i’m going to feel so much better once these are on. hmmm…although i don’t know how i’ll get the faucet aerator on my kitchen sink since i have a water filter installed???

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