Water Saving Challenge

I randomly filled out the city of Austin's online form to estimate how much water my family uses a day.  The chart takes into account showers, baths, loads of laundry, toilet flushes, minutes washing dishes, and dishwasher cycles per day.  With my guesses (how am I supposed to know exactly how many times we flush the toilet a day?!) the chart said we use 89 gallons a day.  Overtime, the numbers add up to about 2,500 gallons monthly, and more than 32,000 gallons yearly.

That's a lot.  So the city is pushing a challenge for people to save 10% of water every day.  Maybe that means one less load of laundry or dishwasher cycle.  (Does that also mean less work?!  I doubt it, unfortunately).

But what I think this boils down to is a lifestyle change.  The 3C Challenge encourages people to commit, calculate and conserve and that each person saving 10% will save 13 million gallons a day.  Calculate your own use and, if you'd like, sign the pledge.