Save Water With The WaterSense Program

The WaterSense program, which is a partnership program that is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, makes it very easy for Americans to save water, lower water bills, and protect the environment.

When shopping, look for the WaterSense label in order to buy quality, water-efficient products. Many different products are available on the market, and they don't require a change in your lifestyle to save water.

By making just a few simple changes in the products that you, and if you use water more efficiently, you could save about $170 per year. For example, by just letting your faucet run for just five minutes, you use about as much energy as letting a 60-watt light bulb run for almost 15 hours.

In order to be considered for the WaterSense label and the program, water saving products must:

• Be over 20 percent more water-efficient than the average products on the market.
• Perform better than their less water efficient counterparts
   

Examples of WaterSense products include :

• Toilets : Older, inefficient toilets that are installed in homes are responsible for the majority of the water wasted in America, and for families increasing water bills. Replacing these older, inefficient toilets with WaterSense labeled toilets could save nearly 2 billion gallons per day across the country.
• Irrigation : All too often, landscape irrigation systems waste water, as much as 1.6 billion gallons of water every day across the country. WaterSense irrigation systems and partners can help you lower  your water consumption, save money, and at the same time maintain a healthy and beautiful landscape.
• Faucet : If every household across America installed an efficient WaterSense faucet in their home, we could save more than 61 billion gallons of water annually.
• Showerhead : Showering uses up about 18 percent of residential indoor water use in the United States. If you use a WaterSense shower head, you can significantly lower your water bill. More than 1.2 trillion gallons of water are consumed each year from showers.