We have a 5 gallon bucket that we put in the tub to catch the cold water while waiting for it to warm for the shower and do the same with a pitcher in the kitchen sink.

We also use a bowl now instead of running water for rinsing veggies.

I's not a lot but we get 20 gallons a week for plants and water features.

Not a damn thing. Like the politicians and others are going without. I'm third generation native Californian and Cherokee and I will use all the water I jolly well please. It's not like they're going to give you back what you saved. Also, they've been singing this song since I was a child more than 50 years ago.

It's not just the drought, I am CHEAP!

I collect all the water like others above. I have a watering can, one of those bigger outdoor ones sitting in the kitchen. It gets filled with all the "saved" water, and then taken outside to water trees and bushes.

I have done such forever. Saves the cost of watering.

Moni

I don't do anything extraordinary. like the idea of a pitcher in the kitchen sink to catch water for plants. I'll have to start doing that, and maybe, my plants will be watered more often.

"I will use all the water I jolly well please."

Aren't you the person who boasted about having two Cokes and two cigarettes for breakfast? Habits like those will certainly limit how long you'll be wasting water.

As for me, we have relatively new low use and low flow everything in the house, including toilets and water-using appliances. Brown vegetation too, except for the native and well established stuff.

We're way under our quota and down from past years. Efficient appliances and low flow fixtures accomplish a lot more than trying to bucket one gallon here and one gallon there.

Instead of waiting for hot water, even saving it, we have a hot water recirculating pump, now required by code, at least where I live. Ours was installed 12 years ago when we did a major remodel. It can be set with a timer, too.

For a couple of hundred dollars, I highly recommend it.

Here is a link that might be useful: recirc water pump

but a bucket in the shower or a pitcher in the sink does help, & anyone can do it, & it costs...zero.

We have water saving, low flow fixtures also (well not the clothes washer yet) but also look for other ways to save. You can walk across the big lake near my home, we have the responsibility to conserve. It's no 'sky is falling- politically driven' water shortage. We have a water shortage that is visible and real.

I have 2 five gallon buckets next to our BIG garden bath tub. I scoop the bath water into the buckets to water my deck pots with.

We're NOT in a drought, we actually have flooding about once a week. :0) But the plants like the soapy water.

LOL Debby, I do agree with you about politicians. What are they doing? When we were last in Palm Springs all of the the golf courses were beautifully green, so were the all of the yards in the gated communities, makes me really grumpy.

We have always been very conservative with water consumption~~we have let our back yard grass die off and we have no front yard grass~~~but our neighbors just let their water run and run~~we see it running in our street gutters;(

At this time I will just do as I have for over 30 years and hope others will start doing it.

We are in severe drought here and our agricultural area is close to having salt water intrusion. Very serious impact to consumers and the farmers.
I have the bucket in the shower. Our lawn is dying but the weeds seem to thrive.
I cut down the size of my vegetable garden.
Yellow is mellow.....
Showers are short....get wet, turn off water, lather, rinse and then out.
Conserving water has been a way of life for us for many years.

We're technically in drought, but the HOA's require certain landscaping and trees. We have to water which I think is a major waste. I love to garden, but would be fine with xeriscaping. I've planted a lot of plants and trees that are heat and drought tolerant and don't require as much water. We have the sprinklers set to water only twice a week. We hand water anything that needs more than that.

I'm not in a drought area but a few years ago it was pretty dry here (Georgia). Our AC puts out a lot of water that runs through a tube to the outside. I used a length of water hose to run the water to some azaleas I didn't want to lose. Also, I kept the bird watering pan full- just move the hose to the pan and you don't have to run out constantly to fill it.

We aren't living in a drought state. We're next to a Great Lake! (We still have water restrictions for lawns.)

Like Sushipup, we have a recirculating pump on our hot water line. It not only saves water, it's a luxurious convenience.

We don't require daily showers or tub baths. We sponge bathe most evenings. We wash our hair a couple times a week. My jet tub is 'just my size' and fills adequately in a couple of minutes.

My front load washer uses small amounts of water. The dishdrawer is right-size for two adults to run once a day and uses very little water. (No hand rinsing either.)

Our underground sprinklers water only the front lawn and the immediate area around the house and some flower beds. The far back lawn gets rain...or not. Sprinklers water to 1" midnight to 5 a.m. once a week -- when we haven't had rain. Nine big flower pots are hand watered daily. If we have drought, we water even less lawn and soak our trees.

We could conserve by adding rain barrels in the rear of the house. I'd like to replace the far back lawn with native plants. There's enough slope for water to run down from the barrels.

I have several inches of mulch around my outside plants....left over hay from the barn, mixed with horse manure. Keeps the ground soft and improves the soil as it breaks down.