WATER
I dug out our most recent water bill to check what our water usage is per person. According to the chart we use on average 69 litres per person which means we're well under Target 155. Melbourne's current water levels are at 36.7% and we are on level 3a water restriction.
Ways in which we save water are:
- We don't have a bath
- We have a water efficient shower head (and very low water pressure!), take short showers and sometimes we share :)
- Sponge bathe
- We wear clothes more than once before washing them (unless they're smelly or dirty)
- We have a front loading washing machine (uses less water than a top loader) and wash on a cold quick wash
- We don't leave the tap running and run the water gently when needed
- Our garden is full of native plants and we have no lawn
- We water plants with cooking water
