Stewart Plumbing can help you choose quality, water-efficient products. Many products are available, and don't require a change in your lifestyle.

Some faucets and faucet accessories (such as aerators) are high-performing, water-efficient fixtures. If every household in America installed a water-efficient faucet or aerator, we could save more than 60 billion gallons of water annually.

Save Water, Save Money

 The average household spends as much as $500 per year on its water and sewer bill. By making just a few simple changes to use water more efficiently, you could save about $170 per year. If all U.S. households installed water-efficient appliances, the country would save more than 3 trillion gallons of water and more than $18 billion dollars per year! Also, when we use water more efficiently, we reduce the need for costly water supply infrastructure investments and new wastewater treatment facilities.

  Americans use large quantities of water inside and outside of their homes. A family of four uses 400 gallons of water every day. This amount can increase depending on location; for example, the arid West has some of the highest per capita residential water use because of landscape irrigation.

  WaterSense, a partnership program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, helps conserve water for future generations by providing information on products and programs that save water without sacrificing performance. In fact, the average home, retrofitted with WaterSense labeled toilets and bathroom faucets or faucet accessories, can save more than 11,000 gallons per year. If one out of every 10 homes in the United States upgraded to WaterSense labeled fixtures, we could save more than 120 billion gallons and more than $800 million annually.

Water saving tips

  Indoors:

• Install faucet aerators, low-flow shower heads, and low-flush toilets.
• Fix leaky faucets, toilets and hose bibbs. You can save 20 gallons of water per day for every leak you stop.
• Shorten showers - you can save 2.5 gallons per minute.
• Turn off water when brushing teeth - saves 1 to 2 gallons per minute.
• Wash only full loads of clothes - saves 15 to 50 gallon per load.
• Installing a hot water recirculation system will save water and energy by circulating hot water through your household plumbing faster and more efficiently.

  Outdoors:

• Install covers on pools and spas - saves an estimated 30 gallons per day.
• Water before 6 a.m. and after 8 p.m. - estimated savings of 20 to 25 gallons per day.
• Adjust sprinklers to prevent overspray - saves an estimated 15 to 25 gallons per day.
• Growing native plants can save more than half the water normally used to care for outdoor plants.
• Water plants deeply, but infrequently. Most plants do best if the soil is allowed to dry out between watering. Homes with a large number of plants could save 750 - 1,500 gallons of water each month.
• Add mulch (2"-3") around trees and plants (1,000 sq ft) - estimated savings of 25 gallons per day.