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“There is a huge misconception that going green is a costly exercise, however, home owners can start by making small changes in their homes to improve their water consumption,” says Debra Retief, Marketing Manager at Tile Africa.

Facts about water consumption:

-    A shower can use 20 litres of water every minute.

-    A five minute shower can consume approximately 100 litres of hot and cold water. That is 36 500 litres of water a year if you take a shower daily.

-    The largest daily user of water in our homes is the toilet. It uses approximately 11 litres of water when flushed and a family of four can use 176 litres of water when they use it four times per day.

-    For every tap that is constantly dripping, around 90 litres of water is wasted every week, that’s 4 680 litres of water wasted every year.

Here is how to help improve water consumption in your home:

•    Fit a flow regulator to your shower head you’ll reduce the amount of water you use by 50 percent or 18 250 litres and 640Kw a year. You can either invest in taps, mixers and shower heads fitted with aerators or retrofit aerators. They reduce water consumption without affecting the water pressure and amount of water delivered. A water flow regulator maintains a predefined, constant flow-rate regardless of the line pressure as it reacts to water pressure changes and adjusts to decrease the amount of water passing through. Pressure variations are compensated for and water consumption can be reduced from 30 to 10 litres per minute. Water-saving shower heads allow consumers to spoil themselves with larger shower heads as the size doesn’t influence the amount of water being delivered.

•    Opt for a dual flush toilet – it has a split flush button that gives you a choice of pressing the smaller button for a four litre flush, ideal for liquid waste, or the larger button for more substantial waste. Four times out of five you’ll only need to use the smaller button, giving you an average saving of three litres per flush.

Tile Africa has affordable water saving and eco-friendly taps, toilets and shower heads.

For more information on these products, contact Tile Africa on 0800 002 783 or visit www.tileafrica.co.za. For saving water tips and inspiring décor ideas follow Tile Africa on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Want to start conserving water in your home? Enter our competition to stand a chance of winning a water saving product hamper worth R3400. Visit www.tileafrica.co.za to enter.
 

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