If you are determined to reduce your utility bills, you should also consider your water consumption. While the monthly bill may not be very high, if you want to make long-term savings, it would be wise to calculate your expenses over a whole year.
Here are some tips to keep in mind if you want to reduce the water consumption of a home and implicitly the bill:
1. Avoiding leaks
Even if leaks are small, they add up, and over the course of a year, significant amounts of water can be wasted. Therefore, if you know you have minor losses in your sink pipes, repair them.
2. Toilets
Toilets consume the largest amount of water. If you have an older model, about 10 years old, consider replacing it. Old toilets consume at least twice as much as the latest models. In this case, the amount of water that is flushed from the tank matters. If you have a tank that is too large, you can put a bottle filled with sand in it.
This will reduce the amount of water entering the tank without affecting its proper function.
3. Showers
Reducing the time spent showering can save between two and five liters of water per minute. Installing an economical showerhead can save you a lot over a whole year.
