• Get rid of baths – Do not take baths, take showers. You will in average save about half the amount of water that you would if you were taking a bath.
• Do not get bottled water – Instead of bottled water get a reusable container to carry water. Also you can get a filter to make your home tap taste more like bottled water. It is definitely more cost efficient.
• Shorten your shower – Every minute you cut from your shower is roughly 5 gallons of water. The less time your shower takes, the lower your impact on the environment.
• Recycle Glass – If you do not recycle this, it will take a million years to decompose.
• Turn Down your Thermostat – Every degree lower in the winter or higher in the summer you put it is a 10 percent decrease on your energy bill.
• Turn off your lights – An easy one. Turn off your lights when you are not using them. The benefits are obvious.
• Do not get a paper phone book – Instead of getting a paper phone book use an online directory.
• Give things away – Take things that you are not going to wear or use and give it to a charity or someone who will use it.
• Go to a car wash – Going to a car wash is a lot more water efficient than washing your car at home.
• Buy Rechargeable Batteries – Even though it will take a good investment to buy these you will find yourself gaining it back in no time.
• Pay your Bills Online – If every house did this then we would save 18 million trees every year.
• Get a reusable bag – You cannot recycle plastic bags; instead get yourself a reusable bag so that you will not have to worry about carrying your necessities.
• Inflate your Tires – If your tires are inflated at all times your car will run more miles on less gas.

• Plant a Tree – It is good for the air, can keep you cool, and can increase your property value.

• Walk or Ride Your Bike When you can – If you have to go somewhere close consider riding your bike or walking there instead of using your car. It is better on the environment and healthier.

Our lives depend on a great extent of water, the spring of life. But with the indiscriminate use of water the world over, it looks like water will be pretty hard to come by in the future.

Mankind is likely to face severe water shortage in the next few decades unless remedial action is taken immediately. Are you anxious to make a difference to save our natural resources?

Here are a few easy suggestions how to save water (and money) at home:

• Close the tap when cleaning your teeth (this saves up to 20 liters of water), or when shaving (this saves up to 45 liters!).
• A bath uses an average of 160 liters of water – a five-minute shower uses 60 liters. Shower rather that bath, but if you have to bath, run a smaller bath or share your bath.
• Ensure your washing machine and dishwasher is fully loaded before starting them.
• Think before rinsing glasses and cutlery under running water.
• Cut down the amount of water flushed down the toilet pan. Installing a “Hippo” bag or putting a 2- liter plastic bottle full of water in the cistern of your toilet could save you up to 7300 liters of water each year.
• Check if your toilet is leaking by adding a few drops of food dye to your cistern – if the color seeps into the bowl, you have a leak. A toilet leak can waste up to 30 liters of water an hour!
• A dripping tap (one drop per second) could waste up to 30 liters of water an hour – which adds up to 10,000 liters a year!)
• Make a point of checking for toilet and tap leaks in your home, school or workplace and engage a plumber to repair any problems. In most instances the money that will cost to repair the leaks can be recovered through lower water bills over a period of time (usually less than a year).
• Do you wash your car with a hosepipe? Consider using two buckets of water to wash your car. This can save you up to 300 liters of water each time.

Saving water in the garden:

• Lawns are generally grossly over-watered and use up to four times more water than other plants. Check your irrigation system, does your water run down the street?
• Only water your garden before 10:00 or after 16:00.
• Consider re-using your bath water and sink water on your garden. Professional Grey-water recycling systems are available on the market.
• Remember this tip: watering your garden less frequently, but deeper (for longer), actually encourages a deeper root system, which results in stronger plants. This practice can make water wise plants out of most established plants.

And for the Industrial and Commercial Sector:

• Does the factory or building you work in, manage, or own, automatic flushing urinals? These are the ultimate water wasters. If you cannot have these modified to be user activated, please turn off the water after hours and over weekends. As an example schools doing this have saved up to R5,000 on their annual water bill.
• Does your building Manager still wash down forecourts and paved areas with a hosepipe? This practice is literally water down the drain (and that means money too).
• Have you had your plumbing checked for leaks?
• Maintenance on toilet fittings can also save thousands of liters of unnecessarily flushed water. Toilets should flush for two to four seconds and urinals six to eight seconds, maximum.

Greening or reforesting is not only useful for improving the quality of health and beauty. Reforestation is also able to reduce the risk of fire.
The fire that burns itself that is because it has no media that can withstand the heat of the earth. For example, the fire in the warehouse came from the pile of goods. Piles of goods in the warehouse over time remove the heat. Because there is nothing to absorb the heat, the fire had come.
The trees, is the media that absorbs heat released earth. Thus, there are piles of goods in the warehouse fire is not sparked.
Realizing the importance of greening the environment, in developed countries campaigns are conducted for citizens to do reforestation, at least in the front yard of each house. It’s mean that one person, one tree. But, in one house, at least one tree. In addition, it also gives a tree to the citizens.
In addition to planting trees, it also conducts emission tests on a regular basis. They also can appeal to the visitors into green shopping using the shopping bag that is environmentally friendly and can be used multiple times.