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Our gardens are beautiful and can be an excellent way to put our eco friendly green thumbs to work. But plants need water, and lots of it. If it doesn’t rain regularly, that usually means using the hose or sprinklers. Unfortunately this is very wasteful of water–it runs off where it isn’t needed, it evaporates, [...]

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I’ve previously written about the importance of installing a low flow showerhead if you’re serious about going green and saving money. Many shower head fixtures, especially older ones, are extremely wasteful of water–with the worst ones wasting 5 or more gallons per minute. Newer and more efficient ones can cut the amount of water used [...]

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According to the EPA, showering represents about 17 percent of residential indoor water use in the US. This amounts to over 1.2 trillion gallons of water every year or almost 3.3 billion gallons a day. That water comes out of our rivers, streams, and lakes while causing great harm to these fragile ecosystems. All this [...]

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