Sentences with phrase «household water consumption»

«With the average person flushing five times a day, toilets make up about 31 % of overall household water consumption.»

They have a few other sustainability projects already going on there, like a grey and black water recycled program designed to reduced household water consumption by 50 %.

Anyway, I got around to reducing our household water consumption by about half, without hardly noticing any difference in lifestyle, and saving $ $ $ in water bills and gas (to heat the water) bills.

Similar to a Nest thermostat but for water use, the glowing disc helps you keep track and manage your household water consumption.

According to the US Geological Survey, US household water consumption is declining to mid-1990s levels.

Not exact matches

Some water heaters have a label that tells you the expected energy consumption for the average household.

Forty percent of a typical U.S. household's summer water consumption goes toward tending the lawn and garden, according to the EPA.

This has impacted heavily on the women and children who now have to walk further to fetch water for household consumption from different water points where they scramble for the meager resource with livestock.

Shrubs, flowers and plants based in soil require constant watering, and a household's water consumption can easily increase dramatically.

In short we may be in the position of trying to determine if a kitchen stove boils water by measuring the humidity in the living room versus household natural gas consumption.

According to the US Department of Energy (DOE), heating water today accounts for up to 14 percent of the average household's energy use, and nearly four percent of total US energy consumption.

The total tax burden imposed on households in Denmark in the form of taxes on energy use of all kinds, water consumption and waste production, etc., is considerable.

On water, even though actual compliance enforcement is patchy and the penalties are light, Brisbane households have the lowest water consumption in the developed world.

Every week, the Wa $ ted team, led by Annabelle along with «green» handyman Holter Graham, audits a household's waste, energy, water and transportation consumption.

South Africa is cited as an example of a country that would benefit, as electric water heating currently accounts for a third of average household (coal - based) power consumption there.

The Pew Internet report, in conjunction with Elon University, found that 51 percent of survey participants agreed that by 2020, the connected household will have «become a model of efficiency, as people are able to manage consumption of resources (electricity, water, food, even bandwidth) in ways that place less of a burden on the environment while saving households money.»

Bentley, my Studio Assistant, is waiting to show you some of our new «water-wise» plants and ways that we are adding color to the garden and at the same time helping us continue to reduce our water consumption by 35 % by saving household water and using «grey» water from the shower and kitchen to water the container plants.