What do you do to save water?

All great suggestions! Here's one I didn't see unless I missed it. We don't, but a friend of ours keeps buckets in the kitchen, bathroom, wet bar, etc., and collects the cold water when they run water waiting for the hot to come. We where looking at installing the instant hot water tanks under the sinks. Haven't taken that step yet. They are fairly expensive. And we don't use that much hot water from the faucets other than the showers.

 

I don't collect water or re-use water and we flush every time. Looking up at our bill ours is 3 billing units each month. The billing unit is 1 cu. yd. which I just looked up is = to 202 (606 total) gallons of water. Household of 3 thats adds up to about 6.5 gallons per person per day. This includes that I water my front lawn for about 10 minutes most mornings and wash my car nearly each weekend at home in the driveway. Common sense conservation

 

No way. Showering alone puts you about there unless you're doing Navy style showers. A five minute shower with a low flow shower head (1.6 gal/min) uses more than that. So there's no way you're only using 6.5 per person. Your meter is broken or you're not reading the bill correctly. Probably the latter.

 

no broken meter, they even recently changed all the meters in the neighborhood to the new ones where they can read them remotely from the street.
Thanks for calling me out as being an idiot because in actually looking at the bill the billing unit is 1 unit = 100 cubic feet. 1ccf = 748 gallons
3 units X 748 gal. = 2244 gallons per month
2244 / 30 days = 74.8 gallons per day and an average of about 25 gallons per person per day, including the car washes and the lawn. My bill runs $29 per month for those who are interested and that includes the sewer and waste water treatment facility fees.

 

yeah, no worries mate. We all cock it up every now and again. 74.8 gal/day does make a lot more sense.

On our water bill each unit is 1000 gallons. You're still kicking arse and taking a few names though. Watering our yard is what gets us. I'm seriously considering ditching the blue grass (which really makes no sense in Colorado) for something less thirsty. Reducing the overall amount of grass in our yard is another goal.