Amazingly easy water-saving tricks of Japanese homes

 "Design for your water to flow through your system as long and as slowly as you can."

This $4 attachment saves the Japanese millions of litres.

Here is the story of my much-used bathwater in Japan.
Firstly,  you don't get into the bath until you have soaped and rinsed and soaped and rinsed, and you are glowing with purity.
The purpose of the bath is relaxing, not cleaning. We all know that.
(Want to save the world? Tell the truth quickly)

One by one every member of the family takes a bath.
Yes, in the same hot water.

The lid is put on to keep the warmth in.
In summer, its still warm the next evening.
Why is it still considered clean?
Germs need three things to proliferate, one is missing.
You are clever and can work it out.

The gas re-heater heats it back to 42 degrees, and in we plunge, and say "Ahh!"

After a few days of this, you link the bath to the washing machine, and wash your clothes in the used bathwater.  

Everyone does, its designed in. 

All this for a country that six weeks of non-stop rain from June, and probably 10 times the rain that we Aussies have. 

The 'designed in' resourcefulness of Japan made Melbourne's water restrictions of a few years ago seem a bit like a Larel and Hardy show. 

Eventually, I put the old machine right where the water was needed.

Good on you Japan!

But none of us are 'even' in the quality of our actions.

Coming up in another blogpost will be a diatribe on the utterly avoidable house-cooling failings of Nuclear-powered Japan. 

I just have to calm down about it first. 

And just focus on whats going right, how it happened, and how to extend it.

Way to go!