Organic Gardening: Water Conservation / Saving

Hotlinks to Additional Internet Resources:

A Green Home is a Healthy Home:  The ways that you use water and energy even what you do with your backyard can have a very significant health impact

Business Conservation Initiatives:  A water audit is an excellent place to start determining where excess water is being used

Clotheswasher Savings Calculator:  Calculate your savings in common areas laundry rooms

Composting Toilet Feasibility Report:  Composting toilets have the potential to reduce water use and divert pollutant loads from the sewerage system directly to agriculture

Drop by Drop:  A How-To Guide: Starting a Water Conservation Program

Ebb and flow irrigation system:  Innovative greenhouse watering ways where water conservation is a great side benefit

H2O Water Saver Home:  California Urban Water Conservation Council Water Saver Home. Take a tour of water saving opportunities in your home.

Island tourism industrys innovative approaches to water savings:  Including time switches in collective toilets and showers; flow meters in common services.

Multi-Family Laundry Rooms Save Water:  Help implement this cost-saving and resource-friendly water and energy conservation method

New Hampshire Dept Of Environmental Services – Database:  $100,000 annually saved on water, sewer, and energy cost reductions. The retrofit cost will be recouped in 3 1/2 years.

Permanent Water Conservation Measures:  watering gardens, grounds and nurseries in Australia

Pricing promotes efficiency and conservation:  Market-based pricing of water use would enable consumers to prioritize their water use.

San Diego expands landscape conservation programs:  Water savings continues with plans for the next five-to-ten years.

Software for environmental awareness: 

Toiletology 101 Care And Repair:  For some time now a growing group of people have been trying and succeeding to make diesel fuel out of used cooking oil (waste vegetable oil, WVO) by themselves. There are many magnificent articles on this subject on the Internet that can teach you how to get started.

Towards a water-sustainable future:  The Toronto Atmospheric Fund was established by Toronto City Council to finance local initiatives to combat global warming and improve air quality. 

Water Efficiency Manual

Water Efficiency Retrofit Program:  A New Hampshire Medical Center’s successful approach to saving water throughout its building

Waterwiser Drip Calculator:  Measure and Estimate Water Wasted Due to Leaks

Who is Water Wise?:  The Effects of Paper Recycling on Timber Harvests – Peter Ince, September, 1995

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