I’m building a strawbale house, I’m using as many old parts in it as I can. I’m a dumpster diver, so I’m always pulling out perfectly great things from dumpsters and using them or giving them away. When I find broken things I fix them if I can so they can continue being used. My house will be wind powered as soon as I can afford to get the windmill. I plant trees. I walk and bike instead of driving when I can, but I live in a very wintery place so I’ve been driving a lot lately, though it is a carpool of sorts and we ride in a hybrid. However it is a hybrid SUV. I shower daily, but my dad never showers so he’s evening it out for me. I get all my drinking water from the local artesian well, hauling it in the hybrid, reusable bottles. I keep my heat set very low, 55 and use down blankets to stay warm. I recyle. I have a front load washer. I eat locally grown items as often as possible, and plan to grow my own veggies and have chickens when my house is built. Also, I never mow lawns when I rent, just let the grass get to the 10 inches or so that it tends to stop growing at. The few times I have mowed, it was with a push mower. On my five acres I’m going to plant wildflowers and “mow” with geese, who natrually keep the lawn short. Maybe a goat or two.
But the biggest water savings I’ve done is when I moved my business into an old school with a men’s restroom that isn’t being used anymore. I turned off a water wasting urinal that has been flushing automatically every five minutes since 1955. Looks like a five gallon tank, and I’ve been here about a year, so that’s a lot of water.