» Some of the worst water leaks we find are at toilets...
where you can lose 100 gallons a day and never know it. Listen carefully for the faint, high whine of a toilet leak. Find out if tightening the water supply shutoff beneath the tank will stop the noise. Or, put some food coloring in the toilet tank. If the color appears in the bowl without flushing, you have a leak. Have you ever seen a "hung" toilet, where the mechanism catches in mid-flush and water rushes continuously out the drain? If you ever discover a toilet in your home that occasionally hangs, don't take chances, have it repaired. One flush uses about 7 gallons of water; a hung toilet that pours out a gallon every two seconds will lose 43,200 gallons in a day. Every once in a while a water customer has a toilet hang as they leave for a weekend...or longer. In just a few days, water loss is in the hundreds of thousands of gallons. The utility rate for metered water consumption is $1.22 per 1,000 gallons.......For 200,000 gallons: 200 x $1.22 = $244. Don't take chances with a hanging toilet: Costs can get out of hand in a hurry.

» Bathroom power vents are left running...
sending expensively cooled air to the out of doors. Run these vents only as long as needed to clear that one room of its moisture. If the bathroom is 10 feet by 12 feet with an 8 foot ceiling, it holds 960 cubic feet of air. Most bathroom fans remove about 50 cubic feet of air per minute. In the above example, nineteen minutes of fan operation sends out one roomful of air.

» Don't scrub nails or wash hands under a running stream...
Fill sink for washing and rinsing, you'll use half as much water.

» Try five minute showers instead of 30 minute tub baths or showers...
You'll use 25% less hot water. In a year it can amount to nearly $50 for a family of four in water heating costs.