Reducing water consumption in the home is a simple and easy way to decrease
water and energy bills and reduce your household's impact on the environment.
Low cost water reduction can take place in every household, often with costs
recouped through water and energy savings within one year.
Look for the AAA rating on
Your Water Using Appliances & Fittings
 Decreased water consumption means lower water bills, lower energy bills
(where hot water use is reduced), and lower environmental impact (for example
by reducing the need to dam rivers). Scarce water resources are conserved,
less waste water is produced and treated at sewage plants (ultimately
impacting on water ways) and greenhouse gas production is minimised when hot
water use is decreased.
The shower is one of the easiest and most cost effective places to decrease
your water use. An inefficient showerhead can use 20 to 30 litres of water
every minute while an efficient one will give a high quality shower using only
nine litres of water every minute. Depending on the model you choose it is
possible to get additional features such as massage, self-cleaning, and flow
cut-off control.
AAA-Rated Showerheads
 AAA-related showerheads cost about
the same as conventional ones but can save significantly on household energy
and water bills. AAA-rated showerheads use less water and less hot water,
meaning that water heaters don't need to work as hard.
The environmental benefits of AAA-rated showerheads include:
- Lower water use
- Decreased wastewater volume
- Reduced CO2 emissions from reduced hot water use.
In addition, Major Savings Possible on Your Water & Energy Bills
Water Bill Savings
Water saved/year - 182.5 kilolitres (or 182 500 litres) x 92.2 cents = $
168.26
Sewer saved/year - 91.25 kilolitres x 47.6 cents = $ 43.44
Total Savings/Year = $ 211.70
Example - 4 persons having 10 minute showers each:
Energy Savings
One AAA rated shower head can reduce your energy
bill by a third if using electric hot water (about $400 a year for the average
household).
Total Savings = more than $600 a year for
an average household with an electric hot water system for an investment of
about a $100 - a payback period of about 2 months!
Range of AAA
rated shower heads to choose from:
(all prices include GST) - postage & handling not included |
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E-Co Shower -
Australian-made, Award-Winning AAA Rated Shower heads |
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Diamond shower head (above) with
mini arm: $126.00
Diamond shower head (above) with long
arm: $140.00 |
The E-Co Deluxe Range -Diamond,
Sapphire, Opal The deluxe range showers are made of solid DR grade
brass, round or hex bar. The rose face tablet is individually drilled at
a particular angle to create the perfect spray pattern. It is then
frozen and the body of the shower rose is heated so that the tablet can
be pressed into position.
The design and the engineering of these
new innovative showers have been able to achieve water conservation and
yet not compromise on performance or the personal comfort we all expect
when you have a shower. |
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Pearl shower (left) -
head only: $76.00
Pearl (left) with long arm: $103.00
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Waterpiks -
Multi-Setting High Quality Shower heads |
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This shower head offers the
most comfort at an affordable price. As featured in Choice Magazine,
this shower head features 6 or 8 settings, AAA rating and 9 litres per minute
flow rate.
The six settings are:
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Pause - reduces water flow while
soaping Centre
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Spray - a concentrated, full force
spray
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Pulse - a steady, pulsating spray
massage
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Turbo Pulse - a powerful
hyper-massage
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Spray/Pulse - a pulsating spray
massage combined with a soothing body spray.
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Outside Spray - a soft, generous,
full body spray
Available in Hand Held or Wall Mount
models. Available in Full White or Chrome Accent Ring (as pictured).
Five Year Warranty |
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AAA Rated Shower Heads Prices |
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6
settings in white/white = $84.00 + GST
6
settings in white/chrome ring = $84.00 + GST
8
settings in black/chrome ring = $134.00 + GST
6
setting in flexi chrome
= $128.00
+ GST
Shower
Arm = $30 + GST
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Toilet
Flush Water Saver
The flushing toilet is
responsible for about one third of all water used by the average Australian
household - a total of about 78,000 mega litres of drinking quality water is
flushed down the nation
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s loos every year! (One mega litre = 1
million litres)
 That’s a lot of water! To give you
an idea of just how much water, it would be equivalent to using a fifth of all
the water in
Sydney
Harbour
to flush the nation’s toilet every year!
The economic cost of supplying this water and disposing of it is enormous - in
11 years since 1980, local and state governments spent $10.6 billion on
sewerage systems and treatment, about 11.6% of their total government
expenditure for that period.
The environmental cost of treating this huge amount of wastewater is also
enormous in terms of pollution of our waterways and oceans.
One easy solution to reducing the amount of water used by your household to
flush your toilet is to install a Toilet Flush Water Saver
The Toilet Flush Water Saver (on left) is a low cost, simple yet highly
effective device that can easily be installed in most toilets.
  The
toilet water flush saver is also very easy to install (see pictures below) and
will help you reduce
your household water usage by up to 25%!
The main benefits of
the device include:
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Easy
to install
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Australian
made
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Saves at least 3-5 litres of
water per flush or about 40,000 litres of water a year for the average
household
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annual savings of about $40
per annum on your water bills
Cost
= $10.00 (plus GST)
Payback
period
= 3-4 months from water cost savings
Siroflex
Water Saving Kitchen Nozzle
The average
Sydney
kitchen sink uses a water flow rate of 20 litres of water a minute. This flow
rate is much higher than the rate needed for the average kitchen resulting in
higher levels of water use than required, higher water heating costs and
higher levels of kitchen wastewater.
Of course, you don’t have to turn the tap all the way on each time you
use it. But try getting the children (or hubby) to be water wise in the
kitchen.
A simpler and more effective way to restrict the amount of water used in
your kitchen is to install a water saving nozzle on your kitchen tap.
This nozzle cuts the water used by your kitchen tap in half by
restricting the flow rate to 10 litres per minute. The
main benefits of this device include:
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Dual
setting – normal (regular aerated stream) and Shower (a wide shower-like
spray)
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Easy
to install (simply screw on to the end of your kitchen tap)
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Less water used = lower water
bills (saves at least 10,000 litres of water a year for the average household)
and less wastewater from you kitchen
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Less hot water used = lower
water heating bills
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Annual savings of about $50
per annum on your energy and water bills
Cost
= $15.00 (plus GST)
Payback
period
= 3-4 months
Enviro-Valve
Flow restrictor valves
A great deal of water is wasted in a house unnecessarily. Every tap in the
house, if fully turned on, will use up 20 litres of water a minute.
Now there is an easy and fool-proof solution to reduce this water wastage
by installing Enviro-Valve water flow restrictor valves in the taps around
your home and a toilet water flush saving device in your toilet.
This not only ends up saving you water, it helps cut down your hot water
bills as you will be using less hot water too! The flow restrictor valves
(see picture above) are easy to install for any home handyman or woman.
Key features of the Enviro-Valves:
- 100% Australian Designed and Made
- Suitable for normal taps or mixer (ceramic) taps
- Can help slash your water bills by up to a third (save up to 18,500
litres of water per person each year)
- Independent University tests show water savings of up to 70%
- Simple to install - the same as installing any other tap valve
- Can use with both hot and cold water
- Inexpensive compared with other water saving devices
- Reduces splashback and water pipe hammer Cost = $30.00 for a set of
4 valves (includes GST)
Payback period = 3-6 months
DIY
Water Saver Kit
Ecological Homes have developed an affordable kit that every home with a
resident handyman (or handywoman) can easily install to help cut their water
usage by up to 25%. Or we can arrange for an installer to visit you home and
install the devices for you.
The DIY kit includes:
- 2 sets of restrictor valves (2 in a set) - 1 set of valves for your
laundry taps and 1 for a bathroom vanity ($30.00)
- 1 kitchen Siroflex water saving nozzle ($16.50)
- 1 toilet water flush saving device ($11.00)
- easy to follow instructions on installation of the valves and the
flush saver Order a Self-install Kit $57.50 (plus delivery & GST)
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