Water is essential to all our lives.
We use it to cook, clean, drink, and just … live. Water keeps us alive! It keeps us washed! It keeps us, well, us! In other words, water is our friend — one of our best friends.
A new PSA from the Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles narrated by Steve Carell walks through some of the ways we’re a bit wasteful with water, and how to change that.
GIFs via Eric Garcetti.
For being so important, we sure waste a lot of water.
Leaky faucets, long showers, and watered lawns add up to a lot of wasted water.
The mayor’s office released a list of tips to reduce water use inside the home.
It includes simple tips like turning off the faucet when brushing your teeth and shaving, cleaning your driveway with a broom instead of a hose, and only washing full loads of laundry.
Taking shorter showers and using a water-efficient showerhead is another quick tip to save on water.
It turns out that fixing a leaky faucet can save up to 300 gallons of water per month, and high-efficiency faucet aerators can cut water use from sinks by up 75%.
For those with yards, outdoor water use makes up roughly half of all residential water consumption.
Pool owners are encouraged to use a pool cover to stop thousands of gallons of water from evaporating. Same goes for using weather-based sprinkler controllers for watering yards.
And finally, California residents can embrace natural, native-to-the state yards. Kentucky bluegrass isn’t necessarily suited for California (more, you know, to Kentucky).
Whether you’re enduring the California drought or you’re just taking a look at what you can do to help conserve water, the tips found at savethedropla.org are really useful.
Watch the SaveTheDropLA PSA below and take a look at what you can do to conserve water.
The video is also available in Spanish.
