Let me show you how easy it is.

Lets start by turning off the water while we brush our teeth. If you brush twice a day for one minute you will conserve 2100 gallons of water every year.

Installing a low flow shower head can save more than 3 gallons of water every minute that you’re in the shower. If you take a 10 minute shower every day you will save more than 12,000 gallons of water in one year. Of course spending less time in the shower is another way to save thousands of gallons more.

And a low flow toilet can cut your water use by more than 2/3 every time you flush. If we flush three times a day that a water savings of 3200 gallons every year.

All together, you’d conserve more than 17,000 gallons of water every year. In Mecklenburg county that’s a savings of about 145 dollars on your water bill every year. In Gastonia it’s a savings of about 235 dollars a year and in Mooresville it’s more than 300 dollars a year. And these savings are per person so a family of four in Mooresville could save more than a 1200 dollars a year on their water bill!

These saving will more than cover the cost of buying and installing a low flow shower head and a low flow toilet. That makes it an easy decision to do your part to conserve water in the bathroom!