World Water Day 2011: How To Save Water And Money (SUBMIT YOUR TIPS)

March 22nd means it's World Water Day again! Established by the U.N., World Water Day has been observed annually since 1993 as a way to raise awareness around protecting the world's water resources.

According to WorldWaterDay.org, 27 percent of the urban population in the developing world doesn't have access to piped water at home, and poor people in developing countries pay exponentially more for their water than people in North America.

But water shortages aren't restricted to any one country or continent. As climate change continues to exacerbate environments around the world, recent droughts seen everywhere from the Amazon to the U.S. may become more frequent and more intense. If you haven't started making every effort to conserve water, this World Water Day is the best time to start.

Here are some easy tips to start saving water at home, which will likewise lower your water bill. Submit your own tips to conserve water below, or tweet your idea with the hashtag #SaveWater and we'll add it to the slideshow.

CLICK HERE to see how you can get involved with organizations that are helping to provide clean drinking water to those in need around the world.

 

Submit Your Tips To Save Water!

Find a picture, click the participate button, add a title and your water-saving tip as the caption and upload your picture

1 of 21

Megan Rascal

1 of 22

First Slide

Previous Slide

@MeganRascal
Megan Rascal

Reduce meat consumption. By consuming less meat, you can save 100s of gallons of water a day. #savewater

gadgets/slideshows/223989/slide_223989_930216_small.jpg

Tornado In France: F1 Storm Touches Down South Of Toulouse (VIDEOS)

Gulf Oil Spill Anniversary: Spills Around The World Since Deepwater Horizon

Green Shipping Tips: How To Send Eco-Friendly Packages

Five Natural Sites Where Humans Threaten Biodiversity (PHOTOS)

Dried Salton Sea Could Produce 'Clouds Of Toxic Dust' Under San Diego Water Authority Plan

Green Festival 2012: Fostering Community And Sustainability In New York City And Beyond

comments(88)

Total comments: 88 | Post a Comment

1 of 22

This Tip

Rank #2  |  Average: 4

Dry Idea A Flood Of Good Advice

• 
  1
• 
  2
• 
  3
• 
  4
• 
  5
• 
  6
• 
  7
• 
  8
• 
  9
• 
  10

Top 5 Water-Saving Tips

loading...

Top 5 Water-Saving Tips

UserName

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Top User Slides

← Prev|Next →

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Users who voted on this slide

← Prev|Next →

loading...

Comments

[mamacat]

04:13 AM on 03/27/2011

The recommendations seem to apply exclusively to residential uses of water. Here in Cali, as in most states, 20% of the water is used residentially, and 80% of the water usage is by farmers. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that where we really need to save water is on the farms.

For instance, here in semi-arid Cali as much water is used by farmers flooding their fields to grow the tropical crop, rice, as is used by all of the residential users in the state, and the rice farmers are given their water at below cost. So, homeowners have to pay more than their fare share in order that a rice farmer can flood his field? And this makes sense in what universe?

[Kenz300]

04:28 PM on 03/26/2011

Water, food, oil, tuna, phosphorus, rare earth metals and other resources
are all coming head to head with the worlds ever growing population.
The world added a billion people in the last 12 years and will add another
billion people in the next 12 years.

Where will all the jobs, food, oil and other resources come from?

[tacevad]

01:41 PM on 03/24/2011

There is no less fresh water in the world today than there was thousands of years ago... there is only less CLEAN fresh water.

[goingstrong]

04:06 AM on 03/23/2011

They say the next World War will be over water...its no laughing matter

[fiddler3]

11:44 PM on 03/22/2011

Water Day??? This has been going on for nearly twenty years?? They need to hire a better publicity firm.

[ICIP40]

11:41 PM on 03/22/2011

Save water for what? It's a scam, It's another way to get you to spend money (your labor in the field,work place,/to spend your labor on something that surounds us ) do the progressives really want us to go back to the old days when we had to use Out Houses? Now even if we do, the EPA would be all over us with fines for peeing in our own back yards without their permission. Sounds like a Defacto Dicktatorship.

[BBackSoon]

11:07 PM on 03/22/2011

As far as the outside water, my yard has not been dry in at least 3 months. But come August it will be dry as a bone.

[rjmtx]

10:59 PM on 03/22/2011

Here's my advice: Use common sense.

No water features or green lawns in the desert. Don't waste the stuff. If you live in a place that is drought prone, don't waste a ton of water when you get the occasional wet year. I could go on, but it's just a lot of common sense stuff. Not rocket science.

[goingstrong]

04:07 AM on 03/23/2011

you are awfully kind to assume most people posses common sense...you know how the saying goes

[rjmtx]

08:23 AM on 03/23/2011

Yeah, I know. Not kind, but tired.

[Dale D]

10:32 PM on 03/22/2011

All greenshirts should sacrifice for their cause of saving the earth by having a water boycott. Trust me. Boycotts work. Just don't drink water fro a week or so. I'll check back on ya later.

[MaggieNYS]

09:26 PM on 03/22/2011

Put a brick in your toilet tank so it holds less water. Take shorter showers. Turn off the water while brushing your teeth. Don't water your lawn, or if you must water it, use recaptured rainwater. Only run the dishwasher and washer when they are full. If you handwash dishes, turn off the water while washing, and only use it to rinse. Very simple, easy and FREE things you can do every day to conserve water.

[goingstrong]

04:08 AM on 03/23/2011

yes, its actually quite easy to conserve it but it takes people to stop being lazy first and foremost

[EcoDrinkShield]

09:15 PM on 03/22/2011

You can help by taking advantage of this Groupon special to donate $15 (a $25 value) to Help Water.org Provide Safe Drinking Water to People in the Developing World. What better way to celebrate World Water Day than to help others get clean water? http://www.groupon.com/deals/water-org

BECOME A BOTTLE SAVER by safely reusing the plastic water bottles you already have! It's an easy, inexpensive and practical way for everyone to Go Green! www.EcoDrinkShield.com

[pita143]

08:16 PM on 03/22/2011

Far too many people buy into the Castle mentality. They have to have a rice green lawn that requires so much water and care it is not funny. We waste more fresh water by not capturing and using rain water and just allow it to run down our sewer lines. People like to act like they are wealthy, and do not have to consider recycling, saving water or even using Alternative Energy. I had the pleasure of living on Puerto Rico for a while and saw roof mounted Solar Water Heaters everywhere. The house I rented had a rain water capture system that allowed us to water the garden of Natural Plants with the rain water.
It would be nice if the next for of being Chic was to conserve and reuse.

[MaggieNYS]

09:29 PM on 03/22/2011

The weeds in my yard are quite drought tolerant ;)

[johuyik]

07:43 PM on 03/22/2011

What would our tap water taste like if all of our politicians were legally required to drink only tap, aka no bottled, water?

[rjmtx]

11:01 PM on 03/22/2011

My tap water tastes just fine. Not as good as the well water I was once on (when we weren't in a skull splitting drought), but it is good. Bottled water is the biggest scam of the century.

[waterrecycle]

06:49 PM on 03/22/2011

Californians should consider installing a laundry to landscape (L2L) greywater system, it's legal without a permit, it saves an avg. of 50% of the water bill, and UCLA reported that if only 10% of So. Cal. homes had one it would save enough water to offset a large desalination plant.

[goingstrong]

04:10 AM on 03/23/2011

wow sounds VERY cool!