{"id":2129,"date":"2009-04-29T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:23:35","slug":"every-drop-counts-slashes-your-water-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2009\/04\/29\/every-drop-counts-slashes-your-water-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Drop Counts Slashes Your Water Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of us (ahem) have a serious addiction to long, hot showers. It’s hard to gauge the impact of a shower while you’re taking it—the water just seems to flow from some neverending source. But drought<\/a> is a problem in many areas, which is why the Every Drop Counts Water Meter is such a handy device.
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\nThe meter works by clamping onto your water pipe and relaying relevant information (how much water you use, where you use it, tap water temperature) to a detachable device.<\/p>\n

According to Every Drop Counts designer Ulrik Svenningson, “Based on cost allocation technology that has proven to save between 20 and 30 percent of heating consumption where applied combined with a known method for detecting water leakages, this new concept for water metering has a host of advantages over traditional water meters.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In other words, being forced to pay attention to your water consumption will probably make you use less water.<\/p>\n

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Every Drop Counts Cuts Water Use<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every Drop Counts isn’t on the market just yet, but there are plenty of water-saving options available now. Low-flow showerheads<\/a> can slow down water flow to just one gallon per minute, and devices like the Aqualim <\/a>automatically cut showers short after a certain amount of time. If you want to go more low-tech, you could always use an egg timer.<\/p>\n

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Some of us (ahem) have a serious addiction to long, hot showers. It’s hard to gauge the impact of a shower while you’re taking it—the water just seems to flow from some neverending source. But drought is a problem in many areas, which is why the Every Drop Counts Water Meter is such a handy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[13,28,32],"tags":[2854,699,1258,1691,1976,2384],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/every_drop_counts4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}