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Saving water
It's amazing the amount of water I use. *Do you know how much you need daily?* **For drinking only I need 4 liters a day.** With five wolves around I need **50 liters** more. If it's hot they like to jump in the pond but there's no water. The pond is empty over one year by now. I never refilled it since my water comes from my own well. There are only two plants in my house. They can survive without much water. Once in a month **one mug water** is enough. Those plants can do without much light and are the only ones so far who survived the cold winters. Winters we are not able to heat the house and sit inside wearing our winter coats, gloves, sit underneath a blanket and a beanie, and still feel cold. **Once awhile a shower would be nice.** I have a tub but it's years ago I used it. By now even a short shower once a week is no longer an option. It's no problem. With water, soap and a washcloth one can be clean too but that costs me water. So does brushing teeth twice a day (4 glasses a day). Washing my hair is an issue. Dirty smelling hair is no fun neither is an itchy head. I have no idea how much water is needed for that but I guess about **5 liters**. How to wash my long hair, pouring the water on my head I didn't figure out yet. **What more do I need water for?** Cooking, doing the dishes about **5 liters**, cleaning the house (I skipped most of it and use vinegar) **10 liters** mainly to mop floors, flushing the toilet **40 liters**, and doing the laundry (one washing machine a week) needs about **20 liters**. How to reduce water? The fact I know how much I use is because buckets and bottles of water are filled daily. If it comes to drinking, cooking, doing the dishes, brushing teeth, and washing I use the water from the city tap. I need to drive for it but there's no other option. As long as the winter did not start the taps are open. Without rain, I, use it for the wolves too. `If there would be rain (we had a bit yesterday for long) I use it for the wolves and if there's more to flush the toilet about 2, at times 3, times a day.` **Cleaning up the place** There's not much cleaning with water these days. I use vinegar in a spray bottle. Vinegar is cheap plus it kills a lot you do not like to have around. A broom and wet cloth get rid of sand and dust too. I do the dishes every few days. The water I reuse to flush the toilet if it isn't too dirty. **The laundry** My main problem. I ran a washing machine and poured water into it each time I heard it trying to add water. It partly worked (the noise worries me though) so I need to work out something else. **I found a laundromat.** It was closed because of the Coronavirus but the lady was willing to do the sheets. This will cost me money but without water, one hasn't many options and it's good to have clean sheets for a change. For sure no water means I have to spend more money to get it. Driving up and down to the city tap cost me gasoline, so does the laundromat plus I buy water and orange juice and some different food so I do not need water for cooking and have fewer dishes to wash. Hopefully, a hairdresser isn't needed to wash my hair.
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Nice article my dear.. Drinking water is a good habit.. We have to drink more water.. Thanks for sharing.
Some say we need to drink more others say we don't because the kidneys aren't a sieve and need to work hard. Thanks for stopping by. 😁
Right.. Do you drink others?? Just for fun..Don't mind my dear..😆
Actually I thought about a book I read about one till two generations ago. The author said during these days people hardly drank. It made me think. Were people more hydrated or are we because we eat different food? I drink water tea and started with orange juice for vitamin C 😂💕
Ooo...this is really good my dear.. I also like to drink tea and orange juice.. 😍
Very good work!keep it up! I like your description!water is life!take adequet amount of water everyday.
What is adequate? This is more about reducing the amount of water we use daily. Most water needs to be cleaned before we use it. I read in the newspapers some water companies give less water because there isn't much. If you live at the end of the waterline you have hardly any water pressure because others used it.
I just want to say that every day we waste a lot of water due to unnecessary negligence, we should be careful.
We should indeed and think about how to reduce it. It wasn't one or two generations ago people were more dirty but for sure they didn't use so much water as we do. Thanks for your contribution to this subject. 👍💕
Your part of the world really have issue of water. Here in my part we get water when ever we want and do everything went to do with water without really thinking about the cost, cause it doesn't really cost much here. Though we have to buy water sometimes from water vendor yet we do not count the cost because it is readily available whenever you need it. From your article, i think i will henceforth be conteous about how we use water here.
Isn't that strange? I mean rivers flow, there's so much sea in this world. How can there be a lack of it?
That's really strange. Are you sure you are not facing a position drought in the near future
What can we do without water?
I wish I had the answer. It would make life way easier.
Water is one of the essential in man needs ,we use it everyday so what is good to the body
You have written a nice article about your usage of water. It reminds how much water we actually waste daily. There are people who faceses lacking of water. So, it will be wise not to waste from now.
You have written a very nice article about water 💦 thanks
Water is very abundant. Even where I live which is the desert 🌵 🐫 right now there are only Sands and our only source is the sea.. but still here I am abundant of water.
"Water is life". Do you know you can survive for some time without food, but you cannot without water. We must not joke with water affairs.