A lot of water is wasted every summer day on residential and commercial yards throughout the Wichita area. Ordinarily, it's simply because sprinklers overspray water onto surfaces or areas where it is not needed and because turning off faucets or managing automatic controllers is inconvenient.
Do you throw the hose, pouring out 600 gallons of water per hour on the ground because it's too far to walk back to the faucet? Do you water an area too quickly, too long, when it's raining? Do you water with the wrong type of sprinkler, wastefully flood the driveway or street, water the neighbor's fence, or the side of your house?
Check the ways you allow water to run uselessly. Chances are there are simple ways to avoid waste. Here are examples of just a few of the many aids available to help you conserve water.
- Start now to put water on properly and to turn it off promptly. Your neighbors will take the clue from you. The first thing you know, we'll all be in the habit of using the water we need, but no more than we need.
- Use water conservation devices. Today, more than ever before, the marketplace offers effecient devices that precisely control irrigation. Still, the human hand remains the ultimate controller.
- A flip of the wrist on the faucet or the touch of a finger to an automatic controller can easily halt the needless flow of water. Water running aimlessly is wasted water. Wasted water, costs as much as water that is used!
- Research the latest devices that help your hands save water, time, and high water costs.
Across the nation, cities are searching for new water sources to meet consumer demand. Wichita, too, is searching. New water will be more expensive. The cheapest and best way to keep our present supply longer is to use water carefully, every day - in every way.