General Tips

• Save 15% of your home’s hot water use by taking showers instead of baths.
• Install low-flow shower heads.
• Turn your faucets all the way off. Replace worn out washers.
• Attach an aerator to the end of a faucet to reduce the flow rate by about half.
• Do as much household cleaning as possible with cold water rather than hot.
• Only run full loads in the dishwasher. Use the air dry (or energy saver) option if available. Heat drying is a high energy user.
• Rinse dishes in a tub of clean water instead of under hot running water.
• Fix any leaky faucets. One constant drip can waste up to 182 litre-sized bottles of water per week. If it’s a hot water faucet that’s leaking, you’re literally sending your energy dollars down the drain.