{"id":586,"date":"2010-09-01T07:23:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T12:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2011-05-06T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:06:10","slug":"save-10-gallons-of-water-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/save-10-gallons-of-water-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Save 10 Gallons of Water a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygreen.com\">The Daily Green<\/a> website)<\/p>\n<p>The old folk wisdom that says place a brick in your toilet&#8217;s water tank is partially correct: It&#8217;s an effortless way to save water, but a brick isn&#8217;t the best choice of object. Use a plastic bottle filled with water instead.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, you don&#8217;t have to turn hippie and &#8220;let it mellow if it&#8217;s yellow&#8221; in order to save clean water \u2014 which is an increasingly scarce resource. Most toilets will flush perfectly well with a little less H2O. The average model uses three to seven gallons per flush. A bottle in the tank will displace enough water to save half a gallon to a gallon each use, or up to about 10 gallons a day in a typical home.<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is drop a little sand or some pebbles into a bottle, fill it with water, and put it in the tank, making sure not to disturb the toilet&#8217;s working parts.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s wrong with a brick? They have been known to disintegrate in toilet water over time, leading to damaged plumbing. If you are a mason or otherwise determined to use a brick, wrap it in a sturdy plastic bag first. Interestingly, some utilities in Europe give away special sachets, called Save-A-Flush, which were specifically designed to displace water in toilet tanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(From The Daily Green website) The old folk wisdom that says place a brick in your toilet&#8217;s water tank is partially correct: It&#8217;s an effortless way to save water, but a brick isn&#8217;t the best choice of object. Use a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","tag-green-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}