water saving

Countless gallons are wasted every day in homes around the world simply by leaving the sink running while washing dishes or brushing your teeth. In fact, about 95 percent of all water entering a house ends up going down the drain. Eulo has come up with an ingenious solution for conserving water in the kitchen with its Grey Water Recycling Sink.

Developed by Australian Ainslie Asher, the Eulo Grey Water Recycling Sink takes the used water going down the drain and sends it through a series of filtering steps before sending it out for other uses. First the water passes through a strainer to get rid of large particles such as food etc. After passing through the

If you have been consuming too much toilet water lately, Brondell may have found a solution. The company has devised a new product called EcoFlow that will allow toilets to save a considerable amount of water. The product basically allows your toilet to flush with two different amounts of water, depending upon your needs. According to Brondell, EcoFlow takes just 30 minutes to install. The resulting half/full flush option will, they claim, reduce water consumption by up to 50 percent. Personally I think it would reduce it by more than that (think off all the flushes per day for #1 compared to #2, in fact Brondell says 9 out of 10). According to Brondell 40 percent of indoor water usage in a typical household is from the toilet and about 55 billion gallons of water are flushed each day.

This is actually not a new product or concept at all. Having just returned from a nine country trip in Europe, I think every single hotel/hostel I was in had the half/full flush option and probably 90