This document provides tips for reducing water usage and saving water through small changes in daily habits. It recommends turning off the water while brushing teeth to save 9 gallons per brushing. Taking showers uses less water than baths. Watering lawns in early morning or evening reduces water needs. Using cloth bags for groceries rather than paper or plastic bags helps reduce waste of natural resources. Reusing bags by bringing them for other trips or lining trash bins also helps save resources.

1. Tips for Reducing your Carbon
Footprint 2
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Reducing your Carbon
Footprint Series

2. Saving Water
• Altering minor things
in your daily routine
can help reduce the
amount of water
wasted in a day.

3. Save when Brushing
• One thing you can do is
turn the water off while
brushing your teeth.
• Only turn it back on again
when you need to rinse
off your toothbrush or
wash out your mouth.
• By doing this you can
save up nine gallons of
water every time you
brush your teeth!

4. Shower instead of Baths
• Try taking showers
instead of baths.
• You can use up to five
times more water
when taking a bath
versus taking a
shower.

5. Watering Your Lawn
• Watering your lawn
either early in the
morning or in the
evening will help cut
down the amount of
times your lawn needs
watering.
• The chances of the water
drying up in the heat are
lowest at these times.

6. Say no to Paper and Plastic
• Go green by refusing paper
or plastic bags when at the
grocery store.
• Paper bags are mad out of
tress and plastic bags are
made from oil.
• The production of both
types of bags is consuming
earth’s precious natural
resources.

7. Purchasing Cloth Bags
• Instead of having your
groceries placed in a
paper or plastic
bag, use a cloth bag
from home.
• Cloth bags can be
purchased in-store at
places like Whole
Foods or online at
EcoBags and are fairly
affordable.

8. Reuse!
• If it’s necessary for
you to use a plastic
or paper bag, recycle
them. Use them for
other shopping trips
or line the trash bin
with it.

9. For more information on topics like this visit our
Resource page at www.Microempowering.org