An old subject, but worth a visit. I have been experimenting with a number of ways of conserving water at home and the results are surprisingly reassuring.
For starters, I learnt to wash dishes, providing many moments of mirth and relief to my wife. If you are slow to open the tap and get just the right amount of water flowing from it, the saving is enormous, a factor that I find frustrating to explain to the house maid. In addition, I have also tried to wash dishes (other than the one used to boil milk) with used lime peels. I first rinse under a tap and get the food bits off, after which lime peels are used to scrub the vessel clean, followed by a rinse.
This has a number of benefits (in addition to the lime juice, that is)
1. the phosphates in detergents are not released into the environment - phosphates are bad for plants and the worms in the soil and do not degrade, leaching instead into the groundwater.
2. its better on your hands
3. the second rinse water is best collected in a vessel and used to water the garden. Of course, if your drain leads to a backyard garden, the water from the first rinse is excellent as well for plants.
If you want to go completely organic, use coconut fibre to scrub the vessels - its great for your biceps......
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