Water Efficiency

Basic assumptions For ease of understanding, let’s calculate that water costs 1 cent per gallon. We are also assuming a two-person household, averaging five toilet flushes per person per day, […]

It is interesting the way the human mind stores memory. I am quite convinced that humans have a relatively inaccurate sense of the past, both short- and long-term. One week

Feature: Large rainwater catchment systems explained By on 03/22/2010 Size: 6,000-gallon underground system capturing rain water and HVAC condensation off 9,000 sq. ft. office  Use of water: Used for landscape irrigation  Where: Asheville Eye,

Feature: Efficient hot-water heating By Amy Musser and Matthew Vande on 03/22/2010 Domestic hot water — used by showers, faucets, clothes washers and dishwashers — is the second largest energy-using system

Plumb green with graywater By Georg Efird on 03/16/2009 Graywater is not a new term to many of us. It is water that has been used in the kitchen sink, washing

EPA WaterSense Program By Candice Black on 03/16/2009 Source: https://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/water

Rain harvesting By Shawn Hatley on 02/01/2008 What about rainwater harvesting? It’s true that in order to collect rainwater, it must rain. But when it does rain, as many as 60,000

Use rainwater management as a ‘best management practice’ By Shawn Hatley on 03/16/2006 A national campaign promotes rainwater management as a best management practice, or environmental protection practice, to achieve large-scale