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Save green and lower your utility bills

17 ways to lower your water bills

Given area water-sewer rates are increasing up to 35%, now's the time to learn how you can save water and money the easy way.

1. Faucet aerators can save 25% or more of your water
   Bathroom low-flow aerators can deliver 0.5 to 1 gallon per minute with the same force of spray, but often in a more pleasing fashion. Kitchen faucets may require a higher flow rate of 2 to 4 gpm if you regularly wash dishes. If you tend to let the water run when washing dishes, the lower flow rate of 0.5 to 1 gallon per minute may be more appropriate. Some kitchen aerators will allow you to flip between two flow rates without affecting the water temperature.
2. New faucet saves water and looks great
   Old faucet can use up to 5 gpm. New high-efficiency faucet can use 1.5 gpm or less. The average family home, retrofitted with water-efficient fixtures, can save up to 30,000 gallons per year.
3. Leaky faucets can waste 20 gallons per day or more.
4. New toilet can save up to 6 gallons per flush (gpf)
   Toilets use approximately 30% of our water. Family of four would save more than 14,000 gallons of water per year by installing 1.6 gpf toilets and more than 17,000 gallons of water per year by installing dual flush toilets (1.6 gpf solids or 0.8 gpf liquids). Did you know you flush five times...continue reading
5. Check for toilet leaks
   Add food color to the toilet tank and wait 30 minutes. Check toilet bowl to see if coloring appears. If so, your toilet leaks. Flush toilet to make sure tank is not stained. If the toilet flush handle frequently sticks in the flush position, letting water run constantly, replace or adjust it.
6. Leaky toilet can waste 10,000 gallons a year - EPA says 20-40% of all toilets leak!
   Toilet flappers last about 5 years - unless you are using those white puck-like toilet bowl cleaning tablets - then you may find that your flapper is leaking in 2 years or less! Touch the flapper. If the coloring from your flapper gets on your fingertips, your flapper is deteriorating and needs to be replaced. A silent toilet leak can waste from 30 to 500 gallons of water per day, while the ones you can hear will waste much more.
7. Stop wasting, waiting for hot water in your bathroom
   Save up to 16,000 gallons of water each year and use less energy than it takes to run a 25-watt light bulb…to say nothing of the tremendous ecological benefit that goes along with it. Get instant hot water at every faucet. Demand hot water re-circulator pump.
8. Shower - If you shorten your showers by one or two minutes, you can save 5 gallons per day,. Did you know if you took 10 minute shower everyday with a 5 gpm showerhead you'd use 18,250 gallons a year.
9. Low flow showerheads reduces your water waste up to 60%
   Standard showerhead uses 4-7 gallons per minute (gpm). A low flow showerhead uses 2.5 gpm or less. With a 50:50 mix of hot: not-hot water the heated water savings would be about three gallons per minute of showering so a 5 minute shower equals about 15 gallons of heated water. Multiply that by a spouse and two teenagers(and longer shower times) and you can easily pour 60+ gallons of heated water down the drain in just one day of showering. You'll enjoy a low flow showerhead in more than one way.
10. Washing full loads of laundry can save 15 to 50 gallons per load.
11. Dishwasher - run only when full - save 2 to 5 gallons per load.
12. Washing dishes by hand, don’t leave the water running for rinsing.
13. Shaving - Don’t let water run while shaving. Save 8 gallons a day.
14. Store drinking water in the refrigerator. Don’t run the tap until it gets cold.
15. Garbage disposal - use sparingly.
16. Brushing teeth - By turning off the water when you brushing you can save 8 gallons per day.
17. Use a broom instead of a hose to clean driveways and sidewalks - save 8-18 gallons per minute.

Choose new energy efficient plumbing, heat, ac equipment

1. Water heater - older water heater can waste 27% in energy and provide less hot water.
2. New efficient furnace or boiler - New high-efficiency heating system can often cut your fuel bills and your furnace's pollution output in half. Upgrading your furnace or boiler from 56% to 90% efficiency will save 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year if you heat with gas. US Dept. of Energy
3. New ac system - old unit can waste up to 40% of your energy. Average home consumes more than 2000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, causing about 3500 pounds of carbon dioxide and 31 pounds of sulfur dioxide to be emitted at the power plant. US Dept. of Energy
4. Earn up to $1500 tax credit with new high efficiency water heater and heat-cool system.
   Let the Feds help you buy new high efficiency equipment that can pay for itself with lower bills. If your water heater or heating & cooling system is over 12 years old, you could be wasting 30% or more of your cooling & heating utility bill. Call PDM for more details.
5. Programmable thermostats is one of the easiest ways you can save energy, money, and help fight global warming. Lower heating & cooling utility bill 3% to 14% a year. Save automatically.
6. Whole building power ventilator fan can replace all of the stale air every two minutes with fresh outdoor air.
7. Front load clothes washer uses 40% less energy than standard washers and uses 18–25 gallons of water per load, compared to the 40 gallons used by a standard machine. EnergyStar
8. Waterless urinalwork completely without water or flush valves. The waterless urinal is touch free, improves restroom sanitation and eliminates odors. A Waterless fixture can save 40,000 gallons of water per fixture per year. Virtually splash-free surface along with odorless, easy-to-maintain performance.

More energy saving ideas

• Tune-up helps avoid furnace or boiler breakdown and wasted energy.
  Stay safe and save with an energy squeezer heating tune-up.
• Bottled water
  Swells plastic trash, uses 1.5 million barrels of oil to make the plastic and can cost $1.28 to $2.56 to over $7.00 a gallon. Learn how pure filtered water from your faucet can add convenience and savings.
• Plug air leaks.
  According to the EPA and Energy Star, save up to 10 percent on utility bills just by plugging air leaks.
• Energy Star fluorescent light bulbs
  Use about 75 percent less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer. If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.

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