Or An Idea with Merit, but hardly Practical
Our Director sent out a Memo, basically restating what the Mayor had said about cutting our water consumption by 10%. I totally wanted to reply to it asking if that meant instead of drinking 5 bottles of water per day I should only drink 4 1/2, but I refrained. Probably a wise idea ;)
Seriously, how do they expect people who work in an office to reduce water consumption. Actually, here are a few ideas )
To: All Staff
Re: 10% reduction in Water Consumption.
Date: Today! Now!
Here are a few suggestions to assist staff with the Mayor's goal of reducing water consumption by 10%
* Drink 4 1/2 bottles of water per day, not 5.
* Only fill the 10-cup coffee maker to the 9-cup mark.
* Keep track of your trips to the restroom. On the 10th trip do not flush the toilet or wash your hands.
* Every 10th person who wants to wash their coffee cup or lunch dishes in the sink...cannot.
Please feel free to include other helpful suggestions of how we can all save water. Together we can make a difference.
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We have a jackass in our neighborhood that is a lawn nazi. He mows 3 times a week to golf course height and proceeds to water the hell out of his lawn to keep it deep green all summer long. AND he'll put his sprinkler on the very corner of his yard (he's on the corner of hte street) so that it waters not only his yard, but the street as well. What a WASTE! One of these days I'm going to go down there and have a talk with him.
I'd considered spraying random bits of his lawn with Round-up to punish him, but then figured he'd just retaliate by re-seeding and watering more heavily. *sigh*
I don't understand why people around here feel the need to have lush green lawns in the middle of July. It's just ridiculous. And such a waste of water.
We sometimes drive by and see people washing their drive-way. Why??? It is going to get driven over by your dirty car again, again, and again...
And at lunchtime today I saw several people get interrupted while washing their dishes, so they turned to talk to the person and just let the tap run straight down the sink.
So much for conservation.
Simple. America needs to enforce the half-flush dunny. In Australia (for you yanks out there) we have two buttons on the top of the toilet - half flush and full flush. The full flush on average uses 6 liters of water. The half flush... you guessed it.
Do a little save a lot. This is one area that one of the worst consuming countries (USA) in the world can save in massive portions.
i like the half flush idea though i've never seen anything like that in use in the US or the UK/IE. i've always been told to put a brick in the tank ofthe toilet. it displaces a brickly amount of water and still keeps the water level high enough for flushing justice. that would work in an office.
...and lemme think - i always turn hte water off while i'm brushing my teeth though it's recommended to just use a cup of water to manage teeth brushing but my cup always has tea in it. i dunno if you have many people in the office brushing their teeth, i'm just sayin'.
you can use any leftover coffee from the pot to water some types of plants (once it's cooled down i mean).
i hear that tap water in london has been through a human body 11 times.
blergh...
I heard it was 5... like that's much better than 11 :D
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