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2022
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2022
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Saving Water Partnership has great ideas to save water and protect our watershed while getting your car looking good!
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MAY
2022
MAY
2022
Fix Leaks, Save Water
Leaks waste up to 12% of all water used at home. Yikes! That’s almost as much water as we use doing laundry each year.
Join us March 14th – 20th to take the #FixALeakWeek Challenge and check your home for the most common types of leaks. Do the Challenge all at once, or pick one item each day to check off the list. When we all work together to use water wisely it adds up to make a ...
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JAN
2022
JAN
2022
When Educators at the Cedar River Watershed Education Center (CRWEC) could no longer connect children to the source of their drinking water via school field trips, they worked with Seattle Public Utilities to create a virtual field trip to bring the watershed to the students. Through a series of videos and activity sheets students, and all greater Seattle customers, can learn all about their drinking water now, and into the future.
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2
MAR
2021
MAR
2021
Stop Water Waste From Leaks
No one benefits from leaks and they often waste more than you think. For many homeowners fixing leaks is a DIY project.
- Fix running toilets: A running (leaking) toilet can use 200 gallons a day or more. That’s as much as taking an extra 10 showers a day.
https://www.savingwater.org/indoors/fixing-leaks/toilet/ - Toilet Rebates: Consider replacing your older toilet if it: ·
Has recurring leaks
Needs 2 flushes to clear the bowl
Is more than 20 years ...
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JUL
2020
JUL
2020
Clogging the System: The Feud Over Flushable Wipes
December 23, 2019 by Diane Peters
In the basement of the Center for Urban Innovation at Ryerson University in Toronto, a lone toilet sits on a raised, tiled platform. Darko Joksimovic, an associate professor of civil engineering, drops a clean bathroom wipe into the bowl and flushes. It swims down a 66-foot pipeline that includes two 90-degree turns and clears it in one go.
He then collects the soggy material and drops ...
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JAN
2020
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2020