April 3rd's Tip
Brushing Your Teeth Follow Up: Following on from last week's great tip on saving water while brushing your teeth, I thought I would take it one step further. Instead of trying to remember to turn the tap off while brushing your teeth, why not try this instead. Make it a small challenge every day to not turn the tap on at all for the purpose of brushing your teeth. Take a large glass of water with you when you brush your teeth. Use some of the water to rinse your mouth after brushing and the rest to clean the toothbrush. A good glass full of water is more than sufficient, and just think how much water you will have saved over a year. Try to get others in the household to do the same - this will be an awful lot of water saved in the long term.
This tip was submitted after last week's tip by Mr. Dirty Boots. I have to add that Marlene also suggested this idea in a comment on last week's post (after Mr. Dirty Boots emailed me the tip!). Thanks to both of you!
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10 Responses
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GregR
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Excellent Tip, I find people do leave the tap running, I alway try to use a cup and turn off the tap quickly
Cheers
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Jon
April 4th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
You'll find that people on water metres dont leave the tap running, i know i certainly dont.
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web development
April 5th, 2009 at 2:55 am
It is really a nice tip to save water while brushing your teeth taking a large glass of water rinse your mouth.
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honeybee
April 5th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I do that in the evening... and then in the morning I brush my teeth in the shower.
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Baby pushchairs
April 6th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Eco-friendly, organic ...we should start replacing these words with the new Black... Thoyght i would get that out. Yes full glass of fresh water does the trick.
Thanks for the info
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Marlborogirl
April 7th, 2009 at 3:08 am
that is for sure something interesting,
We never think about the water issue until we have problems with the water.
Think about the Africa, where people do not have the privilege to let the water running from the tap.
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Stefanie
April 7th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I think Marlborogirl sums it up... we never think about water until there is a problem. This can be one step to take to help avoid a problem.
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Property Sale
April 9th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Great way!I believe that is sufficient enough for cleaning our mouth full of foams.Shall try that out!
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Stefanie
April 10th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Property Sale, it should be, just so long as you don't pour the hole cup out to rinse off your toothbrush!
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pays to live green
May 6th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Really nice tip. I would think that simply making sure your faucet is off while brushing was enough, but this takes that a step further.