This document provides 10 rules for saving water, such as taking showers that are 5 minutes or less instead of baths, which use approximately 4 times less water. It also recommends drinking tap water poured into a glass instead of letting the faucet run, only using water guns with water from pools instead of running taps, and turning off the water while lathering hands, hair, or brushing teeth to conserve hundreds of liters of water per year. Filling washing machines and dishwashers completely and not letting taps drip are also suggested ways to save water outlined in the 10 rules.

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2. Use shower more oftenly than draw a bath. 5 min
showering can use approximately 4 times less
water than using a bath.

3. If you drink tap water, pour that much, that you
could drink it without spilling rest to the sink.

4. When playing with water guns, use only water
of water pools.

5. Don’t let the water run, while you soup the
hands.

6. Don’t let the water run, while you shampoo
your head.

7. Don’t let the water run, while you wash
your teeth. During a year, you can save
around couple hundred liters’ of water.

8. Fill your washing mashine fully!

9. Do not let the tap drip.

10. Fill your dishwashes fully with dishes.

11. While you wash dishes, clog the sink. Don’t let
the water run by!