{"id":4083,"date":"2009-01-22T19:02:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T01:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2009-01-22T19:02:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T01:02:48","slug":"learn-to-flush-away-less-water-and-save-money-with-epas-watersense-widget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/learn-to-flush-away-less-water-and-save-money-with-epas-watersense-widget\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn to Flush Away Less Water and Save Money with EPA’s WaterSense Widget"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Curious about new ways to save water and money?\u00a0 EPA’s WaterSense Program<\/a> recently unveiled a WaterSense widget<\/a> that brings monthly water-saving facts and tips directly to your website or social network.<\/strong> Each month, new seasonally-relevant content will be added to help you increase your water efficiency and keep more cash in your wallet.<\/p>\n With drought conditions throughout many western and southern states in the U.S.<\/a>, the time is ripe for increasing water-saving efforts.\u00a0 More pragmatic than the infamous “Save water – Shower with a friend”<\/a> campaign of the 1970s, EarthSense focuses on actionable items and tidbits.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This month’s feature promotes EarthSense-labeled toilets.\u00a0 As I learned on my first visit to a wastewater treatment plant, their largest single pulse of wastewater comes at halftime on Super Bowl Sunday – when fans all get up to use the bathroom.\u00a0 According to EarthSense, if everyone were flushing EarthSense toilets, it would save almost 200 million gallons of water<\/a>.<\/p>\n EarthSense estimates that replacing a conventional toilet with an EarthSense-labeled one will save a household $90 per year.\u00a0 Its toilet fact sheet<\/a> also says, “If every American home with older, inefficient toilets replaced them with new WaterSense labeled toilets, we would save nearly 640 billion gallons of water per year, equal to more than two weeks of flow over Niagara Falls!”<\/p>\n So, EarthSense provides an idea for you to go beyond that flushing feeling<\/a>.\u00a0 However, if you’re not remodeling or building, and don’t want to replace your toilet, remember that there are still ways to reduce your water waste in the bathroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n Flush less down the toilet, and keep your wallet more flush.\u00a0 A win-win!<\/p>\n Image Credit<\/strong>: limonada at Flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curious about new ways to save water and money?\u00a0 EPA’s WaterSense Program recently unveiled a WaterSense widget that brings monthly water-saving facts and tips directly to your website or social [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":4084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,79,21,13,7],"tags":[129,2451,8512,839,104,2452],"yoast_head":"\nWhy Conserve Water?<\/h3>\n
This Month: Toilets and the Super Bowl<\/h3>\n
Non-replacement Alternatives<\/h3>\n