Ways To Conserve Hot Water – Every Kilowatt Counts

Save 15% of your home’s hot water use by taking showers instead of baths.
Install low-flow shower heads.
Turn your faucets all the way off. Replace worn out washers.
Attach an aerator to the end of a faucet to reduce the flow rate by about half.
Do as much household cleaning as possible with cold water rather than hot.
Only run full loads in the dishwasher. Use the air dry (or energy saver) option if available. Heat drying is a high energy user.
Rinse dishes in a tub of clean water instead of under hot running water.
Fix any leaky faucets. One constant drip can waste up to 182 litre-sized bottles of water per week. If it’s a hot water faucet that’s leaking, you’re literally sending your energy dollars down the drain.

After home heating, water heaters use the most energy in the home. Take advantage of the small things you can do to maximize your savings.

To save hot water, take a shower instead of a bath. A typical bath will use about 75 litres of hot water. On the other hand, a shower with an efficient showerhead will use about half of that.
Fix any leaky faucets. One constant drip can waste up to 182 litre-sized bottles per week. If it’s a hot water faucet that’s leaking, you’re literally sending your energy dollars down the drain.
To save water and energy, install aerators on your kitchen faucets.
Wrap your electric water heater with a blanket made for that purpose to help reduce heat loss.
Insulate your hot water pipes.

After home heating, water heaters use the most energy in the home. Take advantage of the small things you can do to maximize your savings.

Starting at your hot water tank, install pipe insulation around the first metre of the cold water pipe coming into the tank and the first two metres of the hot water copper pipes.
If you have a gas-heated tank, start the pipe wrap 15cm away from exhaust vents at the top of the water heater.
Never insulate plastic pipes.