Leaking pipes and faucets are an extremely common problem, slowing dripping away our money at a persistently annoying rate. Leaky pipes/faucets are a relatively simple task that can help not only conserve water resources, but also money (everyone loves saving money.) While it may seem over presumptuous to say leaking water from household sinks is actually wasting away reserves; just imagine how many people think those few gallons don't really matter, even a few cups in hundreds of thousands of households (number just for example not a real statistic) makes a huge difference, and can be decently inexpensive.
Okay, an easy fix for leaking pipes-http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/plumbing/how-to-fix-pipes1.htm
And for leaky faucets-http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/Fix-A-Leaking-Faucet.aspx
Years and years ago I worked at a nursing home in the kitchen, and one of the side hand-washing station faucets leaked constantly. It drove me nuts that after weeks of mentioning this it still remained unfixed! So I took an empty milk gallon and timed how long it took to fill up & then calculated how much water it would leak in a year (I'm a nerd, I know)... it was over 4,000 gallons!! So when I told management that and estimated the cost of that 4thousand gallons it was fixed in an hour!!
ReplyDeleteSo good post!!