“A drop of water is worth more than a sack of gold to a thirsty man.”
We all have done it. We turn on the water to brush our teeth and leave it on while we go through the steps or we leave the water on while doing dishes. It’s a common waist we are all to blame for and in many cases, you figure it only a few dollars on the bill not that big of a deal right.
In no way am I going to preach politics or saving the world in any of my blogs or I will do my best not to. In this instance may it convert into a world saving thing absolutely, but it is not my point.
We take so much for granted when things are easy to receive the water you use that comes from the city water supply at the turn of a handle but for us it is so much more. To get water we take our large truck 20 miles into town with a 250-gal water tank, fill the tank for a few dollars and drive it back home.
Did you know? On average a family uses 300 gallons of water a day in the United states. We have 6 people in our home and can honestly say when we lived in town, we used more than that. An average American pays around $3.00 a day for water $90 a month. Like many of you we use $3.00 worth of water but about $15 in gas per load and at the national average we would have needed two loads a day. That’s right around $990 a month…
No one can afford that…ok there are those well-off people out there, but the average American can not afford that. So, we learned to conserve. We washed dishes with a three-bucket system. 2.5 gallons of water in each bucket. Wash, rinse, sanitize. One cap full of bleach for the sanitizer water.
Showers were cut to every other day. By the way this is not bad for you it allows for your natural oils to reproduce. All water used from showers dishes were reused. All but the bleach water could be used for the plans the bleach for cleaning. We researched low pressure water systems and installed them and soon we will be collecting water. On average we now use around 250 gal for about 5 days this of course dose not cover the horses or other livestock, but it was a huge conservation which was a big win for The Rockin Boondox Ranch.
For more information on conserving water check out my links bellow.
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