Show Title: A Drop To Drink
Producer: Erin Easterling
Time: 27:40
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>>>TODAY ON IMPACT... SAVING A PRECIOUS RESOURCE--WATER.
---(There's a tremendous competition for water, among urban users, agriculture, and industry.)---
---(We're looking for people who are sprinkling, watering their yards during the middle of the day when they're not supposed to.)---
---(It's the most important thing, if you don't have water, immediately, you're shut down.)---
>>>THIS IS IMPACT. A WEEKLY LOOK AT ISSUES AND ANSWERS THAT IMPACT OUR LIVES AND THE WORLD AROUND US. PRODUCED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES.
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>>>WHEN THE WEATHER HEATS UP, IT'S ONLY NATURAL TO LOOK FOR A PLACE TO COOL DOWN. WHAT BETTER PLACE TO COOL OFF THAN IN A SWIMMING POOL....OR A WATER SLIDE...OR EVEN IN A FOUNTAIN. BUT WHAT IF THERE WASN'T ENOUGH WATER TO FILL THE POOLS? THEN WHAT?
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---( You need water not only to drink. Water is a vital part of life.)---
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>>>WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK. THAT SAYING MAY BE COMING TRUE A LOT SOONER THAN WE THINK. WATER COVERS THREE QUARTERS OF OUR PLANET BUT LESS THAN 1% IS AVAILABLE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.
>>>GERI CASHION- UF MANATEE COUNTY EXTENSION: And I think a lot of times there's a reluctance on the part of the general public to acknowledge the fact that indeed there is a crisis.
>>>WITH FORECASTERS PREDICTING RAPID POPULATION INCREASES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES BY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, OUR NATURAL RESOURCES WILL UNDOUBTEDLY FEEL THE STRAIN.
>>>DR. ALLEN OVERMAN -- UF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER: There's a tremendous competition for water, among urban users, agriculture and industry.
>>>AS THE DUST SETTLES, MANY PEOPLE WONDER WHO WILL BE LEFT HIGH AND DRY.
>>>WALTER VIDAK-TALLAHASSEE FARMER: The farmers may be the first ones to give up some of their water rights and that's going to be detrimental to Florida agriculture.
>>>WATER SYSTEM MANAGERS SAY WE DON'T HAVE TO FACE A DRY AND DUSTY CONCLUSION AT THE END OF A TUG-OF-WAR OVER WATER USE... NOT IF WE REDUCE CONSUMPTION AND PRESERVE THIS FINITE RESOURCE.
>>>DAVID RICHARDSON-GRU ENGINEER: If you can reduce the demand on the resource...your resource is going to last much longer so what we save today we're really saving for future generations.
>>>ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO LOOK FOR WATER SAVING IDEAS IS WHERE THE MOST WATER IS BEING USED. IN THE UNITED STATES, THAT WOULD BE FLORIDA. STUDIES SHOW THE AVERAGE FLORIDIAN USES 175 GALLONS OF WATER EVERY DAY. THE NUMBER EXCEEDS THE NATIONAL AVERAGE BY 65 GALLONS. SO WHERE DOES ALL THAT WATER GO? 39% OF THE WATER USED IN FLORIDA EITHER GOES DOWN THE DRAIN AT HOME OR IS USED OUTSIDE FOR LANDSCAPE IRRIGATION. THAT KIND OF WATER USE HAS TRIGGERED EFFORTS TO CRACK DOWN ON WATER WASTERS.
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>>>DURING THE DAYS OF SILENT MOVIES, THE KEYSTONE COPS ALWAYS GOT THEIR MAN. THE SAME IS TRUE TODAY WITH THESE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT BEAT, THE WATER POLICE TAKE THEIR JOB VERY SERIOUSLY.
---(I wanted to give you this water conservation rule, it tells you when you can water and when you can't)---
>>>IT'S 2:00 PM. AND THE WATER POLICE ARE HOT ON THE TRAIL OF A SUSPECT. THE CRIME????
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>>>WATERING THE LAWN.
>>>HARRIS GEORGE--ST. JOHNS WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT.: We're looking for people who are sprinkling, watering their yards during the middle of the day when they're not supposed to when we do see this, we stop at their house, we advise them that it's the wrong time to be watering.
---(You're not supposed to be watering from 10 in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon)---
---(Is that already in effect?)---
---(Yes ma'am well, it's permanent)---
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>>>THE HOMEOWNER WHO GETS OFF WITH JUST A WARNING ON THE FIRST OFFENSE, SHOULD CONSIDER THICSELVES LUCKY. THE WATER POLICE WON'T BE SO FORGIVING THE NEXT TIME.
>>>GEORGE: If we come back in the area, and see them doing it again, then we issue a consent order and at that time, they'd have to pay a penalty of $50 for domestic water use, for commercial use, it would be $100. -
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>>>THE WATER POLICE PROGRAM WAS CREATED BY FLORIDA'S WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS AS A WAY OF EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER CONSERVATION.
>>>GEORGE: When I don't have to give out citations, I feel real good about it. We've educated people, we've made them aware of the rule. I don't like catching people, because I feel like we've failed in our job.
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>>>LANDSCAPE IRRIGATION TAKES A HUGE TOLL ON OUR WATER RESOURCES. IN FACT, IN THE AVERAGE HOME AS MUCH AS HALF OF ALL THE WATER USED GOES ON THE LAWN AND GARDEN.... EXPERTS SUGGEST HOMEOWNERS TRY TO REDUCE ALL THAT SPRAY TO JUST A TRICKLE.
>>>GARY KNOX - UF HORTICULTURIST: You can get very dramatic savings in water use by convert to a micro irrigation or drip or trickle irrigation system as they're called. The reason is, is that you're not spreading water all of the place, you're only concentrating water to the root system of the plants where they need it most, and so that's the reason why you're conserving so much water that way.
>>>HOMEOWNERS SHOULD ALSO MAKE SURE TO USE THEIR WATER AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE.
>>>KNOX: Mulch is an excellent water conservation tool if you apply it, so after settling it's about 3 inches deep, the more mulch, in terms of area, the better, in terms of water conservation. Another way is to make sure when you're irrigating, is to make sure that the water hits the soil, and not the sidewalk or the street or other impervious surfaces like your patio. When water hits the sidewalk, it's just wasted, runs off evaporates and so on.
>>>MORE AND MORE, PEOPLE ARE JOINING TOGETHER TO TRY TO CONSERVE WATER IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. ONE EXAMPLE IS THIS COMMUNITY ON FLORIDA'S WEST COAST..
>>>PHYLLIS WALTHIUS--RESIDENT: We definitely do want to conserve on water, and that's why we're putting in xeriscape plants and we're making large beds so we don't have as much grass that needs more water than these natural plantings.
>>>RESIDENTS OF THIS SUBDIVISION BELIEVE THAT WATER CONSERVATION NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED YEAR-ROUND.....NOT JUST SEASONALLY.
>>>NANCY RECHCIGL -- UF Manatee County Extension: This community has a landscape management policy that they go by, which includes trying to include more naturalized areas within the community so that they don't have to irrigate it, and also to use xeriscape concepts whenever they do any relandscaping
>>>CONCERN OVER THE FUTURE OF OUR WATER SUPPLY IS AFFECTING MORE THAN JUST HOMEOWNERS. THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY IS ALSO FEELING THE IMPACT.
>>>D.C. MCCLURE -WEST COAST TOMATO INC.: It's the most important thing, if you don't have water, immediately, you're shut down.
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>>>FLORIDA PRODUCES AROUND 800 THOUSAND TONS OF TOMATOES EACH YEAR,...TO GROW THAT LARGE OF A CROP REQUIRES MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER. IT'S EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHY THEY'RE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO CUT WATER CONSUMPTION.
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>>>PHYLLIS GILREATH - UF MANATEE COUNTY EXT.: One of the ones that 's most visible technique as far as water conservation is going to a water conservation system like drip irrigation or micro jet or micro irrigation system, whereas you're using about half as much water that way with a conventional seep system like we've used for many years here in Florida. I think more of the growers, the packing houses in this area at least are all trying something new, they're trying new ideas, new systems, new techniques, because they can't afford to wait.
>>>THAT'S WHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCHERS ARE HELPING GROWERS CONSERVE WATER BY LOOKING FOR WAYS TO EXPAND THE USE OF DRIP IRRIGATION.
>>>GARY CLARK--UF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER: We look at proper design techniques for the system and ways to manage it that will make it easier for the grower, so that they'll be more acceptable of a system that requires little change on their part to keep it going.
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>>>THE NURSERY INDUSTRY ALSO DEPENDS ON A HEALTHY WATER SUPPLY FOR SURVIVAL. MARTY ORBAN, A BRADENTON GROWER, KNOWS ALL TOO WELL THAT WITHOUT WATER, HIS PROFITS, PLANTS, AND BUSINESS WOULD DRY UP.
>>>MARTY ORBAN - NURSERY OWNER: There is a lack of water in Florida, but there are a lot of things that could be done like using effluent water and recycling it in their yards and fields and golf courses and that would really help solve that problem.
>>>MORE THAN 10 YEARS AGO, MARTY ORBAN DECIDED TO DO HIS PART TO CONSERVE WATER. INSTEAD OF PUTTING IN A SPRINKLER SYSTEM AT HIS NURSERY, HE CHOSE TO FLOOD THE PLACE.
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>>>ORBAN: We use a concrete floor with a curve around it and we flood the floors for anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending upon the size of the pot, size of the crop. The water is taken up into the soil by capillary action and we developed this system. We started in about 1982 with our first house and we do probably about 70% of our irrigation is done with this method.
>>>ORBAN SAYS HE'S SEEING ABOUT A 30% SAVINGS BY USING FLOOD IRRIGATION OVER CONVENTIONAL METHODS.
>>>ORBAN: We're very concerned with conserving water and also with nitrate runoff and the other pollution that you can cause by spraying and that sort of thing, and so this system here lends itself really well to recycling the water and we feel that we get about 30% of our water back recycled and also we have zero nitrate runoff with sub-irrigation because the water is moving up in the pot instead of down so we get no drenching, no leaching of fertilizer from our soil.
>>>ALTHOUGH FLOOD IRRIGATION WORKS WELL AT THIS NURSERY, DRIP IRRIGATION IS ALSO BEING USED TO A LESSER EXTENT. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA EXTENSION AGENTS ARE HELPING GROWERS OPTIMIZE THE PRODUCTION PROCESS.
>>>GERI CASHION - UF MANATEE COUNTY EXTENSION: That's really the key. We have more and more growers now that are using low volume irrigation delivering the water right to the pots especially in larger containers, containers larger than 5-7 gallons where they can have an individual emitter in each pot. How it ties in with the overall well being of the plant number one, you're able to manage your fertilizer better when your water management techniques are optimum and the plant is not going to be as stressed. What we want to avoid above all are damaged or stressed plants. And if the plant doesn't have to undergo excessive watering or poor water management techniques, then you're going to grow a healthier, stronger plant.
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>>>ANOTHER WAY TO GROW HEALTHY OUTDOOR PLANTS IS TO USE SOMETHING CALLED "RECLAIMED WATER"
>>>DAVID RICHARDSON-GRU ENGINEER: It is a cost effective, environmentally acceptable means of the disposal of the treated waste water. Some of the initial uses that you could put reclaimed water to is, you can use it of course for landscape irrigation. Some people are using it for fire fighting purposes. Some people are using it for toilet flushing where it actually goes into multi-family homes and is used for toilet flushing. We are using it in this application as a ways of increasing the wildlife value of a fairly dry area.
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>>>BELIEVE IT OR NOT, EVEN THIS WATERFALL IS MADE UP OF RECLAIMED WATER. DAVID RICHARDSON OF GAINESVILLE REGIONAL UTILITIES HELPED DEVELOP THIS WILDLIFE SETTING AT KANAPAHA BOTANICAL GARDENS. HE DESIGNED THE WATER GARDEN TO SHOW THE PUBLIC RECLAIMED WATER IS AN OASIS WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED.
>>>RICHARDSON: The idea here is that if we provide a format so that people can familiarize thICSelves with reclaimed water... when it becomes available in their neighborhood, they won't have reservations about using say for landscape irrigation for instance.
>>>THE BOTANICAL GARDEN NOW USES 80-THOUSAND GALLONS OF RECLAIMED WATER FOR THEIR PONDS AND IRRIGATION. BEFORE THIS PROJECT, VALUABLE DRINKING WATER WAS USED INSTEAD.
>>>RICHARDSON: What we're doing through the reuse system is actually using the water we take From the ground more than once before we put it back into the ground. We're using it at least twice because we're using it for drinking...it goes to the waste water system...we treat it again...and we then put it to a lower quality use which is reuse or reclaimed water that people can use for landscape irrigation for instance.
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>>>RECLAIMED WATER CAN BE AS VALUABLE TO FARMERS AS WELL. UNDER THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCE, CERTAIN CROPS CAN THRIVE USING THIS TYPE OF SYSTEM.
>>>WALTER VIDAK-TALLAHASSEE FARMER: Water reclamation is important to me as a farmer on this project because for one reason, number one we can make use of a non-renewable resource that being nitrogen in the effluent. It assures me of a constant supply of water through the sewage being reused here. It affords me affordable farming environment through the irrigation equipment and the access to the property and the grounds.
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>>>DR. ALLEN OVERMAN, AN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA WORKED WITH THE CITY OF TALLAHASSEE TO SET UP A WATER RECLAMATION SYSTEM FOR FARMERS LIKE WALTER VIDAK. TALLAHASSEE WAS THE FIRST IN THE STATE TO USE RECLAIMED WATER ON SUCH A LARGE SCALE.
>>>DR. ALLEN OVERMAN -UF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER: Well, they irrigate about 1800 acres of crop land, 15 million gallons a day of discharge. And that provides water and some amount of nutrients for the agricultural operation, reduces the amount of ground water pumping and also reduces the amount of ground water use.
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>>>THE RECLAIMED WATER IS USED TO GROW FEED CROPS SUCH AS CORN, AS WELL AS BERMUDA GRASS FOR HAY.
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>>>UF RESEARCHERS SAY BEFORE THE SPRAY FIELD WAS IN PLACE, THE TREATED WASTE WATER WAS PUMPED INTO A NEARBY LAKE EVENTUALLY.
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>>> PRESSURE FROM LOCAL CITIZENS FORCED CITY LEADERS TO LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVES. JOHN DEAN, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SEWER DIVISION IN TALLAHASSEE SAYS THE SOLUTION OF USING THE RECLAIMED WATER TURNED OUT TO BE A WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR THE CITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
>>>JOHN DEAN-TALLAHASSEE SEWER DIVISION: What's unique about this one as compared to others in the state of Florida is we reuse 100% of the water that comes through this plant. About 16 million gallons a day through this treatment plant and not one drop of it is going into surface waters so we're not creating any surface water pollution in lakes and streams. We're reusing 100% of it on agricultural reuse system, a farm if you will.
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>>>ECONOMICS ALSO PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE DEMAND OF RECLAIMED WATER. RIGHT NOW, CITY OFFICIALS IN GAINESVILLE SAY DRINKING WATER USED FOR IRRIGATION PURPOSES SELLS FOR ABOUT A DOLLAR THIRTY FOR EVERY THOUSAND GALLONS WHILE RECLAIMED WATER IS FREE AT THIS POINT. TO A HOMEOWNER, THAT MIGHT NOT SOUND LIKE A GREAT SAVINGS, BUT TRY WATERING AN 18-HOLE GOLF COURSE EVERY DAY.
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>>>BOB ROWE, A CO-DEVELOPER OF HAILE PLANTATION FEELS THE BENEFITS OF USING RECLAIMED WATER FAR OUTWEIGH ANY INITIAL INVESTMENT.
>>>BOB ROWE-HAILE PLANTATION: We've been able to develop our community successfully and build a golf course in an environmentally sensitive area. We've been able to complete our objectives and at the same time, address the objectives of those concerned about wildlife protection, exotic plant protection, and other types of public concerns.
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>>>HAILE PLANTATION IS THE FIRST GOLF COURSE IN THE CITY TO IRRIGATE WITH RECLAIMED WATER.
>>>RICHARDSON: Haile Plantation is using reclaimed water to irrigate their new golf course that they just put in and they're also putting it into residential areas. Some of the primary reasons that they're doing that is from the golf course point of view, they want a reliable source of water. So that they've got a fairly large investment in landscaping. They need to keep people playing golf every day even when it's hot and even when it's dry. If they're using groundwater, they could be curtailed from using that groundwater during times of drought. One of the benefits to them if they have reclaimed water available, like they're using, even during drought periods they're able to irrigate the golf course as much as they need to keep it in good, playable condition and really keep their investment alive.
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>>>SOME NEW RESIDENTIAL AREAS CAN ALSO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF RECLAIMED WATER AS A LOW COST WATER SOURCE....BUT THE SERVICE ISN'T OFFERED EVERYWHERE.
>>>RICHARDSON: In the future, as water supplies become more scarce, that will result in higher drinking water prices, which will make people accept using reclaimed water even more.
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>>>IN AREAS WHERE RECLAIMED WATER IS NOT AVAILABLE, HOMEOWNERS AND GARDENING ENTHUSIASTS CAN STILL REDUCE WATER USAGE THROUGH A PRACTICE CALLED ELM.
>>>RECHCIGL: ELM stands for Environment Landscape Management which is a program that the University developed in order to help residents and landscape managers care for their landscape managers care for their landscape in a more environmentally sensitive manner and it really includes a lot of the concepts that you find in xeriscape which include using appropriate plant material and grouping plant material with similar needs together in landscape beds using micro-irrigation when possible, mulching, using plants that very few insects or disease problems because that will require less maintenance also in the landscape and using some other proper landscape management practices such as keeping the land mowed at proper mowing height, pruning the trees properly, and basically just a lot of common sense maintenance practices that people don't normally think about on a regular basis.
>>>OTHER IDEAS MIGHT BE AS SIMPLE AS PLANTING A SHADE TREE OR REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF GRASS IN THE YARD. THE BEST NEWS OF ALL, THE LANDSCAPE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE UNATTRACTIVE TO SAVE WATER. DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS CAN BE JUST AS BEAUTIFUL.
>>>RECHCIGL: There are several shrubs that can be considered drought tolerant or have very good drought tolerance, and that, one would be the Dwarf India Hawthorne, this is a wonderful little shrub that flowers in the springtime, stays very low to the ground, doesn't get taller than about two feet and is very drought tolerant once established and has very few problems.
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>>>RECHCIGL: Having an environmentally friendly yard doesn't necessarily mean that your yard has to have a wild, unkept look. It's just a matter of selecting the appropriate plants for the type of growing conditions that you have on your site. And learning how to manage that in a proper manner.
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>>>IN THE SOUTH, WHERE THE WEATHER CAN GET HOT AND DRY, ELM OFFERS SOME RELIEF TO ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS LANDSCAPERS....
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>>>SOME HOME BUILDERS IN THE 90'S DON'T LIKE WASTING WATER EITHER AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE BUILDING NEW HOMES WITH WATER CONSERVATION IN MIND.
>>>PAUL MCARTHUR - BUILDER: They are using some restrictive devices in like the faucets and the shower heads. And we're using the one-and-a-half gallon toilets now instead of the three gallon, so that's going to help quite a bit.
>>>ALL NEW HOMES IN FLORIDA ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE WATER CONSERVATION DEVICES INSTALLED DURING CONSTRUCTION... UNFORTUNATELY, MANY OLDER HOMES ARE NOT AS EFFICIENT. SO INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNERS MUST TAKE THE INITIATIVE TO INSTALL WATER SAVING DEVICES.
>>>BRENDA ROGERS- UF MANATEE COUNTY EXTENSION: These are readily available at a hardware store or a plumbing supply store or any kind of home maintenance kind of shop and they're not very expensive and it's a good way to cut down on the amount of water that's being used in the shower or in the bath, you can limit that as well. There are also flow restrictors that can be inserted between the showerhead and the spout where the water actually comes into the shower and those can, you can get them in a variety of sizes that you can choose the one that works best for you. And again they're very inexpensive.
>>>CONSUMERS CAN TAKE SEVERAL STEPS TO REDUCE CONSUMPTION AND HELP KEEP WATER BILLS DOWN.
>>>ROGERS: In the dishwasher, you're going to use about 12 gallons per load, so the best thing there of course is to make sure that your dishwasher is absolutely full it cost the same amount of water to wash three forks as it does to wash a full load, so if you keep that in mind then you make a better decision about running the dishwasher. If you're washing your dishes by hand, it's better to, especially the rinse, to not rinse under running water, but to rinse in a pan of water
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>>>ROGERS: And then in the toilet, you can devise ways to displace water so that every time you flush, you do not totally have to replace the entire amount of water that's in the toilet tank. The average tank for homes five years or older is seven gallons per flush. You can get various stages of that all the way down to 1.6 gallons which is what's being used as of January the 1st, but in some of the older homes, you can use toilet dams which are inserted into the toilet tanks and permit the water--a wall of water, toilet dams they hold back the water so that only the water necessary for the mechanism of the tank has to be replaced and that's one of the ways you can reduce the amount of water. Another place, another way is to use a plastic container to displace some of the water in the tank and this is recommended over something like this. You can see this brick is worn. You'll probably want to take it out, because the sand and clay and stuff can really mess up the mechanics of your toilet tank and clog up some lines.
>>>CONSERVING WATER IN THE HOME ISN'T JUST ABOUT GIZMOS AND GADGETS, IT'S ALSO ABOUT PERSONAL PRACTICES AND PEOPLE DECIDING TO DO THEIR PART.
>>>BILLY HAMILTON - FLORIDA RESIDENT: I conserve water at home by using a reducer on my shower that doesn't put out a strong output but it puts out just enough to clean yourself.
>>> GLORIA WILLIAMS - FLORIDA RESIDENT: Around my home, I don't use a very lot of water. I do not waste water. I do not have water running just to have water running. It has to be very important. I don't wash my car every day.
>>>STEVE GARVIN - FLORIDA RESIDENT: I don't leave the water running...I don't leave the hose running...I don't leave the shower running if I don't need it. To me, water is probably the most important thing to me.
>>>RIGHT NOW, FLORIDIANS ARE AMONG THE TOP WATER CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD, BUT THAT RANKING DOESN'T HAVE TO STAY THAT WAY. EXPERTS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SAY IF PROPER WATER SAVING STEPS ARE TAKEN NOW, BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER COULD BE SAVED IN THE FUTURE.
>>>ROGERS: The simplest thing would be to start with the sink and brushing your teeth and turn the tap off as you brush and then turn it back on to rinse. For shaving the same thing, don't rinse your blade under running water, but rinse it in the sink and then rinse everything out in the end. The bottom line is that we're all dependent upon it and we all have to do our part, and even a small part works towards the total picture, and we've got to look beyond having green, everything green, and the car clean and the dog clean today, to what we're going to have ten years and twenty years, and a hundred years from now.
>>>FLORIDA'S POPULATION IS PROJECTED TO GROW BY NEARLY A THOUSAND NEW RESIDENTS A DAY AND OTHER STATES WILL SEE DRAMATIC INCREASES AS WELL. THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THERE WILL BE ENOUGH WATER TO QUENCH EVERYONE'S THIRST? CONSERVATIONISTS SAY MAYBE NOT.... UNLESS WATER SAVING MEASURES SUCH AS ENVIRONMENTAL LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT, WATER RECLAMATION, AND LOW-FLOW RESTRICTORS ARE USED. IF WATER CONSUMPTION IS REDUCED IN THE FUTURE, OUR PRECIOUS WATER RESOURCES CAN BE PRESERVED. . . .AND WE MAY ALL HAVE A DROP TO DRINK.
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>>>IMPACT, A WEEKLY LOOK AT ISSUES AND ANSWERS THAT IMPACT OUR LIVES AND THE WORLD AROUND US. IT'S PRODUCED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES.
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