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Toilets

Don't Use the Toilet as an Ashtray or Wastebasket
Every time you flush a cigarette butt, facial tissue, or other small bit of trash, you're wasting gallons of water. Put them in the garbage, or better yet, recycle.

Laundry

Use Clothes Washer for Only Full Loads
With clothes washers, avoid the permanent press cycle, which uses an added 5 gallons (20 liters) for the extra rinse. For partial loads, adjust water levels to match the size of the load.

Shower

Install Water-Saving Showerheads, Shower Timers, and Low-Flow Faucet Aerators
Inexpensive water-saving low-flow showerheads or restrictors are easy for the homeowner to install. Long showers can use five to ten gallons every unneeded minute. "Low-flow" means it uses less than 2.5 gallons per minute. You can easily install a ShowerStart, or add a ShowerStart converter to existing showerheads, which automatically pauses a running shower once it gets warm.

Faucets and Sinks

Fit Household Faucets with Aerators
This easy and effective home water conservation method is also the cheapest! A simple low-flow aerator saves water in the bathroom, while a swiveling aerator can serve multiple purposes in the kitchen

Turn Off the Water After You Wet Your Toothbrush
There is no need to keep the water running while brushing your teeth. Just wet your brush and fill a glass for mouth rinsing.

Rinse Your Razor in the Sink
Fill the sink with a few inches of warm water. This will rinse your razor just as well as running water, with far less waste of water.

Opt for the Dishwasher Over Hand Washing
It may seem counterintuitive, but it turns out washing dishes by hand uses a lot more water than running the dishwasher, even more so if you have a water-conserving model. The EPA estimates an efficient dishwasher uses half as much water, saving close to 5,000 gallons each year.

Leaks

Check Faucets and Pipes for Leaks
A small drip from a worn faucet washer can waste 20 gallons of water per day. Larger leaks can waste hundreds of gallons. Some faucet leaks are easily spotted, but others take a little more effort to locate. Dry sinks and tubs thoroughly and allow to sit for an hour. If you notice wetness, you've found a leak. To find leaks from faucet handles, dry the area around them before running water. You'll see water collecting next to them if there's a leak.

Check Your Toilets for Leaks
Put a little food coloring in your toilet tank. If, without flushing, the color begins to appear in the bowl within 30 minutes, you have a leak that should be repaired immediately. Most replacement parts are inexpensive and easy to install.

Use Your Water Meter to Check for Hidden Water Leaks
Read the house water meter before and after a two-hour period when no water is being used. If the meter does not read exactly the same, there is a leak.

Extending Your Conservation Measures

Recycle Your Water Where You Can
Collect the cold water you run before it's hot enough to shower and use it to water plants or flush the toilet (known as a bucket flush). Rinse water from dishes and food preparation can be collected and used to soak other dishes.

Eat Less Water-Intensive Foods
Our diets account for roughly half of all the water we use. All food has a water footprint, but some are much larger than others. Eating less beef, one of the most water-intensive foods, is a smart place to start. Shifting away from animal products to a plant-based diet can shrink your water footprint significantly.

Buy Less
Consumer products are an often-overlooked source of water use, accounting for up to a third of most people's water footprint. Buying less of everything-from clothing to electronics to household goods-can dramatically decrease your water footprint.

Vegetable Garden

Maintain Your Irrigation System
If you use an irrigation system, check that it's operating correctly toward the beginning and end of each season. Clear any visible clogs, and adjust the settings according to the needs of your plants and the time of year. Plants will need less water in cooler weather and more in hotter weather, and correct settings will not only save water but ensure that plants are getting the right amounts. Also be sure the timer waters in the morning to reduce loss to evaporation and prevent moisture from staying on plants overnight.

Add Organic Matter to Your Garden Beds
Adding organic material to your soil will help increase its absorption and water retention. Areas that are already planted can be 'top dressed' with compost or organic matter every year. Turn a healthy dose of compost into new garden beds when preparing the soil for planting.

Control Weeds to Reduce Competition for Water in the Garden
Weeds use water, too! If you don't weed, the garden invaders will take up water meant for your plants. A good layer of mulch around your plants not only conserves soil moisture but helps keep weeds under control.

Lawns and Shrubs

Native plants will use less water and be more resistant to local plant diseases. Consider applying the principles of xeriscape for a low-maintenance, drought resistant yard. Plant slopes with plants that will retain water and help reduce runoff.
Group plants according to their watering needs.

Put a Layer of Mulch Around Trees and Plants
Mulch will slow evaporation of moisture while discouraging weed growth. Adding 2 - 4 inches of organic material such as compost or bark mulch will increase the ability of the soil to retain moisture. Press the mulch down around the drip line of each plant to form a slight depression, which will prevent or minimize water runoff.
Learn more about different mulch materials and their best use.

Position Sprinklers Carefully
Position your sprinklers so water lands on the lawn or garden, not on paved areas. Also, avoid watering on windy days.

Water Your Lawn Only When It Needs It
A good way to see if your lawn needs watering is to step on the grass. If it springs back up when you move, it doesn't need water. If it stays flat, the lawn is ready for watering. Letting the grass grow taller (to 3″) will also promote water retention in the soil.

Most lawns only need about 1″ of water each week. During dry spells, you can stop watering altogether and the lawn will go brown and dormant. Once cooler weather arrives, the morning dew and rainfall will bring the lawn back to its usual vigor. This may result in a brown summer lawn, but it saves a lot of water. You can also replace thirsty Kentucky bluegrass lawns with Eco-Lawn, a grass seed mix that lowers your lawn's water needs by over 85%.

Use Efficient Watering Systems
You can greatly reduce the amount of water used for shrubs, beds, and lawns by strategically placing soaker hoses installing a rain barrel water catchment system;
or installing a simple drip-irrigation system. For trees and woody shrubs, consider deep watering with slow-delivery irrigation like the Treegator. Be sure to avoid over-watering plants and shrubs, since this can diminish plant health and cause yellowing of the leaves. When hand watering, use a variable spray nozzle for targeted watering.

Plant in 'Hydro-Zones' to Maximize Water Use
Grouping plants with similar water needs means you won't be wasting water on plants that don't need it. Keep your water-wise and xeriscaped plants together, and do likewise with thirstier plants. Water only certain zones regularly, while watering drought-tolerant plantings less frequently.

Plant Trees in the Yard for Shade
In addition to making your house cooler and storing carbon, adding shade trees can lessen the need for watering. By protecting plants and soil from the afternoon sun, shade trees help conserve water.

By using water-saving features you can reduce your in-home water use by 35%. This means the average household, which uses 130,000 gallons per year, could save 44,00 gallons of water per year.

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45+ Ways to Conserve Water in the Home and Yard

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Toilets Don't Use the Toilet as an Ashtray or Wastebasket Every time you flush a cigarette butt, facial tissue, or other small bit of trash, you're wasting gallons of water. Put them in the garbage, or better yet, recycle.

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https://newsela.com/read/water-scarce-drought/id/40766/
Ttile: What is really scarce in a water drought?
Author:Christian Science Monitor Editorial Board
Summary: This site is about how there is a place where there was not a lot of water because they had a major drought.

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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/12/06/road-salt-water-pollution
This website is about one human invention that is used for our safety but pollutes the water. That is road salt.

This website is about how we use water on a daily basis.

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https://www.fluencecorp.com/what-is-water-scarcity/

This website was about how water scarcity is spreading and how it is bad. It also talks about what water scarcity is.

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https://earth911.com/inspire/encourage-water-conservation/

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Fresh water is a limited resource by itself. But humans make it even worse by polluting it. We think our inventions are really helpful to us and though that may be true it is very bad for the water. For example road salt. When then snow melted the road salt would be carried to near rivers and streams. Also one teaspoon of road salt can pollute 5 gallons of fresh water and is almost impossible to get rid of. In minnesota 730 million pounds of road salt gets dumped on the roads. On a daily basis we use about 80-100 gallons of water. We use about 24% for toilet, 20%shower, 19% for faucet, washing clothes 17%, 12% for leaks, 8% for other.

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From: Earth 911-11 Steps to Encourage Water Conservation in Your Community
Practice what you preach
Engage with others.
Seek out allies.

Starting Outreach: What to Teach Others
Give people a reason to save.
Provide entry-level strategies.
Encourage others to challenge themselves.

Think big.
Widening Your Influence: How to Teach Others
Choose a monthly focus.
Start an in-person conversation.

Host an event.

Be neighborly.

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How do we impact this limited resource?

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How can we get the word out?

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We can help prevent it by just reduce water usage at home. By just taking showers that take less time, fixing leaky faucets, and washing only full loads, you can help prevent water scarcity by just doing a simple task. If everyone helps, we can prevent one of the biggest problem in the world.

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This impacts us because if we don't have enough water we may have  droughts which causes us to not have food or water and most people don't have a lot of water so many people will not have enough.

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Water scarcity is where you do not have a safe access to clean fresh water. Water scarcity is spreading all over the world people are having less access to clean water everyday and in order to live a healthy human life water is the main factor

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How can we prevent it?

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What is water scarcity?

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