10 Things You Can Do To Save Water

Although water covers 71% of the earth’s surface, 3% of it is fresh water, and only 0.5% is available fresh water. The other 2.5% is unavailable—locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps, atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far under the earth’s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost, According to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamations.

Knowing these facts reinforces once more the need for saving water. Since the human body can survive longer without food than without water, the good news is that there are a number of things we can all do to help conserve water:

1. Fix or replace any leaking faucets.

If your faucet drips once every second, you would be wasting about 5 gallons per day or 2,082 gallons per year. In many cases fixing a leaky faucet is a very simple procedure that does not require you to call a plumbe