[getforfree]

I do not have meter on my water right now. But I will about a month from now. I would pay 14c for every 100 gallons. I have no leaking fausets anywhere right now.

I came up with som strategies that I am going to use.

I will take faster showers. Right now I allow myself to use 20 min hardly warm shower, and it's summer now, so I don't need really hot water anyways. But when I will have to pay for every gallon of cold water, I will have to limit it. For the kids, I fill up half of the tab with the warm water, wash them and let them play in it, then I rinse them with clean water for about 1 min each. But because they are boy and a girl, I would have to wash them separatly a few years from now, now they are 1 and 3 yrs old. Now I even can take them to the shower with me, they don't care.

I will also collect the water from my shower and water plants with it. Yes, the dirty water too. I wonder if it's possible to flash the toilet with the used dirty shower water.

In the rain season, I plan to have a few clean backets outside and collect the rain water to use in washing machine for cold washes, but for hot washes, I will still have to use nomal water. I can add water to my washing machine, and then it will just add less to the full load. I have a really old washing machine, and I think it has a water level sensor. So the newer machines must have it too.

Once I used some hot water in my wash after I cooked eggs in it, but it was like 1 quart of water, so I saved about a quart of hot water, probably 1-2cents.

I will also ask everybody not to flash the toilet every time, or make sure everybody uses the bathroom and than make only 1 flash after few people use it. But I am not planning to keep my toilet dirty for a few hours untill someone decides to use the bathroom again.