Archive for 'water saving ideas'

Reduce your toilet water usage

Posted 28 October 2007 | By Luke | Categories: water saving ideas | 1 Comment

Wikihow has one of the simplest step by step instructions on how to reduce the amount of water you use when you flush the toilet. Even a monkey could follow this one. It’s as simple as grabbing a plastic bottle, such as a used water bottle, refilling it with water and placing in your toilet [...]

Do water filters help save water?

Posted 11 August 2007 | By Luke | Categories: water saving ideas | No Comments

I have a theory that water filters help save water.  Maybe it’s psychological on my part but when we had (yes had – it broke) a water filter, I reckon we were more careful with the water we poured out of it; we treated the water like it was more precious.  Now that the water [...]

Design a water saving device and win a Wii

Posted 09 August 2007 | By Luke | Categories: water saving ideas | 1 Comment

Two things near and dear to my heart, saving water and Nintendo Wii!  Core77 have issued a water saving design competition where the winner can win a Nintendo Wii.  All you have to do is design a novel water saving device for the bathroom and submit it to the Core77 Water-saving designs for the bathroom [...]

Smoking ban in pubs and clubs will save water

Posted 31 July 2007 | By Luke | Categories: media water stories, water saving ideas, water saving tips | 2 Comments

How many times have you been our at a pub or night club only to wake up the next morning (somewhere) stinking of cigarette smoke?  Your hair and clothes smell like you’re a two pack a day smoker. The fist thing I do the morning after is throw all my clothes in the wash then [...]

Transporting large quatities of water in bladders

Posted 10 July 2007 | By Luke | Categories: media water stories, water saving ideas | No Comments

Brisbane physicist Dr Ian Edmonds has had a novel idea for transporting water from rain soaked North Queensland down to the drier regions of South East Queensland and NSW.  Dr Edmonds has suggested floating large volumes of fresh water down the Australian east coast in large plastic bladders.  With the natural current that flows from [...]