Consume twice less!
All starts with choices simple and not inevitably expensive.
Limit the pressure in the pipes. In the new buildings, a pressure regulator is generally placed between the water meter and the various health facilities. It makes it possible to limit the flow for an identical result.
Your toilets, choose the water hunting with dual control. The adjusting device of flow contains two buttons: one which releases between three and five liters of water and the other all the contents of hunting (between 6 and 10 liters).
Place mousseurs-savers on your taps. They avoid the escapes and decrease the flow by injecting air in water. The pressure is identical to that of a tap not equipped. Privilege the thermostatic mixing valves: by reaching very quickly the wanted temperature, one avoids losing an large amount of water.
Intelligent: the stop shower. This small system is fixed between the tap and the flexible tube of the shower. Recommended for the valves and fittings without mixing valve, it stops water while temporarily preserving the desired temperature.
Choose sparing , by basing you on the label energy. In addition to the class of the hardware, power consumption and the acoustic level, it specifies the water consumption for the dishwashers and washing machine. A modern washing machine of energy class has uses less than fifty liters for a cycle of washing. Over the lifespan of the machine about fifteen years , the saving water and electricity vary between 500 and 600.
A rain of cost savings
Another runway to make economies: to recover the . A practice encouraged by the public authority via a tax credit.
The installation of a tank of rainwater recovery is adapted perfectly to a project of new house since it is necessary to double the network.
The principle: the , are drained roof towards the cable routing channels. They are collected and stored in a tank to be pumped and filtered there to feed the various posts of water other than food and body. In other words, the is reserved for medical, washing and watering.
Which tank? Privilege the polyethylene tanks. The cement tanks are not completely tight and can especially amend the chemical composition of water, in particular its degree of acidity (pH).
At Which Place? The tank must be installed more close possible of the house and buried of any fixed charge or passage of vehicle. It must remain accessible for a regular conversation and have an inspection door. All grounds to accommodate this type of installation: the characteristics of the ground must thus be studied.
Caution: This type of installation is a business of specialist. A research department must gauge the volume of storage, dimensions, the flow and the pressure of distributed water. In addition, the installation must be in conformity with the European standard IN 1717 on the separation of the networks.
Dimension garden
Not needs to use drinking water to sprinkle! The recovery of the will irrigate your plantations. It will be enough to install a tank from 250 to 300 liters along a cable routing channel. You will associate to him a pump of surface equipped with an hosepipe.
Do not sprinkle your grass the summer. If you agree to see it yellowing during July and August, you will save cubic meters and it will be only more robust.
Install drips, porous pipes, even of the microcomputer-asperseurs. They will give to the plants only that which they need.
Integrated watering remains best solutions to rationalize its consumption. You will design this installation at the time of the development of your construction project. Then, of the trenches will be dug to install the pipes which will sprinkle the vegetation with the drip.
Good with knowing To be equipped with a recuperator of remains before a whole gesture citizen. Indeed, it is necessary to count several years before making profitable its investment. An example? A cistern of of three or four cubic meters for an external use (watering, cleaning), makes it possible to save from ten to fifteen cubic meters of water a year. That is to say a saving in approximately 68 /an, when the tank and its installation return approximately to 4.000.
The alternative? To privilege the good behaviors, the malignant accessories and the small equipment.
Sparing gestures
Prefer the shower with the bath. A bath can make you consume between 150 and 200 liters of water whereas you consume 60 to 80 liters of them by taking a shower!
- Close the valve when you wash yourselves the hands, the teeth, you soap yourselves or you shave.
- If you have a sink with twin-bin, fill your two vats rather (for washing, the other for the rinsing) than to let run water.
- Made hunting for the escapes. They can account for 15 to 20% of the consumption of a chamber.
- Completely fill your washing machine or your dishwasher before starting them or use the key “” or “half load”.
- Sprinkle your garden the morning, just after the dew when evaporation is minimal.
- Privilege the watering-can with the jet if your garden is small, the water run-off being slower, the ground absorbs it then more slowly. Use the that you will have retained beforehand in a cistern or a can.
Did you know? Each French consumes on average and per day 150 liters of water. For a shower, count 30 to 80 liters, against 150 to 200 liters for a bath. The dishwasher uses 25 to 40 liters, washing machine 70 to 130 liters. Count 10 liters for a water hunting with simple flow. And approximately 200 liters when you wash your car. Lastly, note that 7 % only of your total intake are reserved for drink and the preparation of food.
Source: the Agency of water