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Green Building Principle #2
Water Management
Water Management is
the conservation of water usage inside the home
and irrigation to the plants outside the home.
Some Home Builders go to the extreme of reusing the grey water
from a home and/or rain water collection for
landscape irrigation. I heard where in the
southern United States, landscape irrigation accounts
for 70% of water consumption.
See current drought conditions. Presently,
the Texas Hill Country is under "Exceptional"
drought condition. That's worst than Extreme.
Water is becoming more and more scarce. We need
to begin taking a serious view of how we waste
the water inside our homes now and begin
retrofitting new methods today.
Specifying
Low-Flow Shower Heads is the first step in water
management. A 5 minute Old Shower Head shower
can use over 30 gallons of water which half of
that was heated by your water heater. Install a
low-flow shower head and your saving money
already and saving the environment. The same is
true in the Kitchen and the Dishwasher. Did you
know that washing dishes in an energy efficient
automatic dishwasher uses less energy than
washing dishes by hand?
Continue to Principle #3 -
Sustainability |
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