Water: No Time to Waste – A consumer's guide to water conservation

Table of Contents

• Why Water
  An introduction describing why water conservation is so important.
  
  
• Water View
  The water cycle, water treatment and use.
  
  
• Water Wise
  The three golden rules of water conservation: reduce, repair and retrofit.
  
  
• In the Kitchen
  Wise water management starts in the kitchen.
  Making water safe to drink
  
  
• In the Bathroom
  Stemming the flow in the largest water waster in the home – the bathroom.
  How waste water is treated
  
  
• In the Utility Room
  Coming clean while keeping green and saving water.
  Down the drain?
  
  
• In the Outdoors
  How to conserve water when summer rolls around.
  Getting greener
  
  
• Water Works
  A potpourri of water information, from the cityscape to the countryside.
  Water myths and facts
  
  
• Water Marks
  How much water the typical family can save. Turning litres into dollars and sense.
  
  
• Water Log
  The bottom line: How do you measure up?
  
  
• Water Resources
  Where to go, now that you've whetted your appetite for more information.
  
  

If you are interested in printing a large quantity of the booklet for use in your own water efficiency program, enquire about borrowing the printer-ready diskette we offer FREE OF CHARGE.
For more information, contact:

Engagement and Outreach
Sustainable Water Management
Environmental Stewardship Branch
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON  K1A 0H3
E-mail: H2O@ec.gc.ca

The print version of this publication contains the following
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Main entry under title:

Water : no time to waste : a consumer's guide to water conservation
Second edition
Issued also in French under title: L'eau : pas de temps à perdre

ISBN 0-662-23049-3
Cat. no. En37-93/1995E

1. Water conservation – Canada – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
2. Water use – Canada – Handboods, manuals, etc.
3. Water supply – Canada.
4. Water – Canada.
I. Canada. Environment Canada.
II. Title: A Consumer's guide to water conservation.

TD226.W3714 1990   553.7'0971   C90-098676-X

CREDITS
Writer: REIC Ltd.
Design/Cover: REIC Ltd.
Illustration: Vilnis

Published by authority of the Minister of the Environment

©Minister of Public Works and Government Services 1995