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Many
people ask how they can
conserve
during this crucial time.
Below, please find some
conservation
tips your family might find beneficial.
Rebate Programs:
Please note that
Willowbrook customer's qualify for Denver
Water's Rebate Programs.
Denver Water is pleased to
offer five kinds of rebates for residential customers interested in
improving high-water-use appliances or adding efficiency enhancers to
their irrigation systems. The rebates will be available all year, for
purchases made between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2006.
Read the rules for qualifying, and then
make your purchase, fill out your application, and mail it to
Willowbrook Water & Sanitation District.
Commercial/business/HOA property managers, owners
of income-generating property, and government facility managers should
contact Denver Water's Conservation Hot Line, 303-628-6343 or email
conservation@denverwater.org
for details on rebates and incentives.
For more information,
please contact Denver Water at
(303) 628-6000 or visit their web site at
www.denverwater.org.
Ten Tips for Ten Percent
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Cut your watering time by
10 percent, and lighten up on the fertilizer.
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Tune-up your automatic
sprinkler system.
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Water only early in the
morning and after sundown. Check out
www.watersaver.org
for the amount of time to water yards.
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Find those leaks and fix
them. Do you hear an annoying drip or a remote hissing? It
could be a leaky spigot or a toilet (costing you 15 gallons every hour).
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Cut down your shower time.
The average person showers for 8 minutes (yes, we've been checking).
You can shower for 6 and be semi-speaky clean.
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Run your dishwasher 10
times in 2 weeks? Run it chock full 9 times.
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You're doing 10 loads of
laundry each month? Load up the washer and do 9.
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Use a bucket instead of a
hose when washing your car. One for soap and one for rinse.
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Get out the real broom
instead of the water broom and sweep your walks and driveways instead of
hosing them down.
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Sorry, kids. No running through the
sprinkler and swooping down the water slides this year. The
neighborhood pool will have to do.
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Bathroom
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Flush toilets only
when necessary. Try to flush two fewer times per day.
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Shower quickly (no
more than five minutes).
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Fix all leaky toilets, faucets and pipes.
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Install a low-flow
showerhead and take only a 4-minute shower or 3-inch bath.
(Showers
useless water than baths.)
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Replace your
high-water use toilet with a new low flow one.
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Insulate
your water heater and water pipes so you waste less while waiting for
hot water to flow.
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Catch water in a
bucket or watering can while waiting for hot or cold water and add to
house plants., or use to flush a toilet.
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Turn
off the water while shaving, brushing your teeth, and lathering in the shower.
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Shave
with a small amount of water in the sink rather than running water.
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Put a water
displacement bag or plastic bottle in each toilet tank.
Kitchen
and Laundry
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Wash only full loads
(laundry and dishwasher). Try to wash two fewer loads per weeks.
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Wash vegetables and
fruits in a bowl or basin using a vegetable brush; don't let the water
run. Use water on house plants.
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If you have to
pre-rinse dishes, soak them instead of running water.
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Chill drinking water
in the refrigerator instead of running the faucet until the water is
cold.
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Defrost food in the
refrigerator, not in a pan of water on the counter or in the sink.
Besides saving water, it's less likely to breed bacteria.
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Run
garbage disposals only when necessary. Compost your food waste
instead.
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Replace
your inefficient clothes washer with a highly-efficient
horizontal-axis clothes washer.
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