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Draining the Water Supply
A running toilet or dripping faucet can drive you crazy and keep you up at night.  They can also drain your wallet. Don't let leaks and drips wash your money and our precious water down the drain.  The EPA estimates that the average household spends as much as $500 per year on its water and sewer bill.  Repairing water leaks can cut your water consumption in half and save you a lot of cash too.  

Toilets and faucets alone account for over 43% of a household's water usage.  A toilet that keeps running or has a leak can waste 200 gallons of water a day and a dripping faucet can waste over 1000 gallons per year.  Fixing drips and leaks will save wasted water and could also save you hundreds of dollars per year.

What Makes It Green?
Water conservation also reduces water demand.  This decreased demand allows rivers and streams to maintain adequate water levels and flow, which helps to sustain healthy aquatic ecosystems.  

Indirectly, saving water also helps to reduce energy consumption for water and wastewater development, treatment, and distribution.  It takes a considerable amount of energy to deliver and treat the water you use everyday. The EPA says that American public water supply and treatment facilities consume about 56 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year-enough electricity to power more than 5 million homes for an entire year.

What You Can Do

If a faucet drips at a rate of one drop per second, you would waste 2,700 gallons in a year.  

The month that we found and fixed a water leak in the pipe outside our meter, our consumption was 4 times that of an average month (almost 16000 gallons).