To conserve makes sure you…

Watch your water levels. Your garden really doesn’t need that much water and you can calculate fairly precise amounts at Be Water Wise. Once you know your needs pay attention to the weather reports so you can subtract the rainfall from your typical watering plan.

Use a system that helps you to conserve. For example the Toro Rain Sensors save water by automatically shutting off your irrigation system when it rains. See more Water Saving Gardening Tools.

Continue to keep your weeding under control – why water weeds? And continue to mulch plants.

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Monitor your fall garden watering

As noted in the award-winning documentary FLOW…

• Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinking water (www.charitywater.org).
• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently does not regulate 51 known water contaminants (www.foodandwaterwatch.org).
• The average American uses 150 gallons of water per day, but those in developing countries cannot find five (www.charitywater.org).
• Water is a $400 billion dollar global industry; the third largest behind electricity and oil (CBS News).
• Californiaʼs water supply is running out there’s only about 20 years of water left in the state (Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant and co-author of Blue Gold, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians).
• There are over 116,000 human-made chemicals that are finding their way into public water supply systems (William Marks, author of Water Voices from Around the World).

And that’s just the tip of what appears to be a quickly melting iceberg. Water loss also is thought to be occurring due to global warming, and of course people in developed nations waste water every single day without giving it a second thought.

As one way of raising awareness, Rain Bird, a leading manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services, developed the Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition, which is now in it’s third year. The competition uses the power of film to increase awareness and the discussion surrounding the need for more responsible water use, giving both amateur and experienced filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their film making talents. The 2009 Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition finalists were just recently announced. I watched all six films and the two I like best are Small Changes by Jennifer & Christopher Gandin Le – Austin, TX and One Single Bucket by Megan Schuyler and Diana Opong-Parry – Spokane, WA.

All the finalists will be featured guests during a special screening event on September 23, 2009 at The Getty Center, where 2008 Jury Prize Winner, David Sutera, will serve as master of ceremonies. Two winners will be announced and awarded cash prizes of $6,000 for the jury’s selection and $3,000 for the audience favorite.

Check out all six finalists videos at the Intelligent Use of Water and visit FLOW to learn more about the importance of water conservation.

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Intelligent Use of Water Finalists

One of the hot celebs our there, Kim Kardashan and her boyfriend Reggie Bush made an effort to save the environment

“I conserve water by showering with my boyfriend so we can save water together,” Kardashan told Tarts this week at Svedka Vodka’s launch of their eco-friendly T-shirt collection E.VIL to benefit Heal the Bay, held at Fred Segal in Santa Monica, Calif.

Anybody believes that showering together conserves water?   I doubt it.    Most of the time, I think it will only take more “shower” time.   The longer you are in the shower,  the more water you’ll consume.

If it were toddler twins or triplets taking a bath on the same bathtub, then that I think would be saving water.   But still,  a bath definitely waste more water than a shower.   It’s good once in  while though.

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Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush’s Effort to Save Water