Saving water
Here is another I used for saving water.
Recycle your washing machines rinse water to use for the next wash. I know I often have more than one load to do when I wash. I got a large barrel a plastic garbage can would work, and just moved the drain hose to empty into this when the washer drained when on rinse. Then I used a cheap swamp cooler pump to pump the water back into the washer for the next wash. I don’t see why you couldn't do this with bath water as well. The Wash drain water you could use for you garden or lawn. It's what they call "gray water" I didn't want the barrels of rinse water in my laundry room so I set a platform up out side the window. Water is getting expensive and even the local water department made a comment about how little water we were using and I even had a green lawn!
You might want to check if you city allows you to use "gray water'.
Another thing many people might not know is that soapy water is an old fashion cure for some types of bugs on their plants and flowers. I would not recommend water with bleach, but the water with bleach didn't seem to hurt the lawn in anyway. But I sure did have to mow it more often.
I solved that problem of mowing too. Just like the old days I did what they did at the White House. I got some sheep. They don't over graze or pull the lawn up by its roots. The chomp away is an even level and even fertilized it at the same time. LOL
Our small town allowed us to have the sheep. We later added two turkeys and a few chickens. These were penned up of course and had fresh eggs everyday. The extra eggs we sold to a local company that sold them to the stores.
Incase no one has heard, in England they are advising people to cut back on food because of the food shortage. The government there says the high costs for food is because of the food shortage and suggests people go back to practices done during World War 2.
Recycle your washing machines rinse water to use for the next wash. I know I often have more than one load to do when I wash. I got a large barrel a plastic garbage can would work, and just moved the drain hose to empty into this when the washer drained when on rinse. Then I used a cheap swamp cooler pump to pump the water back into the washer for the next wash. I don’t see why you couldn't do this with bath water as well. The Wash drain water you could use for you garden or lawn. It's what they call "gray water" I didn't want the barrels of rinse water in my laundry room so I set a platform up out side the window. Water is getting expensive and even the local water department made a comment about how little water we were using and I even had a green lawn!
You might want to check if you city allows you to use "gray water'.
Another thing many people might not know is that soapy water is an old fashion cure for some types of bugs on their plants and flowers. I would not recommend water with bleach, but the water with bleach didn't seem to hurt the lawn in anyway. But I sure did have to mow it more often.
I solved that problem of mowing too. Just like the old days I did what they did at the White House. I got some sheep. They don't over graze or pull the lawn up by its roots. The chomp away is an even level and even fertilized it at the same time. LOL
Our small town allowed us to have the sheep. We later added two turkeys and a few chickens. These were penned up of course and had fresh eggs everyday. The extra eggs we sold to a local company that sold them to the stores.
Incase no one has heard, in England they are advising people to cut back on food because of the food shortage. The government there says the high costs for food is because of the food shortage and suggests people go back to practices done during World War 2.
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