Reducing Water Consumption

It's actually easy, even for a commercial facility like the Highlands Golf clubhouse.

The "thermo brew" coffee maker relies on warmed carafes.
Each morning, carafes are warmed by preheating them with hot water before placing under the coffee maker.

Hot water doesn't flow from the tap right away.

Rather than pouring cool water down the drain before it becomes hot enough to warm the carafes, it's now poured into a bucket to water plants.  Same with the hot water from the carafe before placing carafes under the coffee machine.

It's really surprising just how much water is saved with this procedure, and it doesn't take any extra time over the previous method.

A few days of the water saving technique really adds up!

And the dried coffee grounds are sprinkled over the flower beds.

Easy peasy, as they say.

"Since water rates are always increasing, maybe the invoice will remain the same," Kia would've chuckled.

We can hope...