Use ''gray'' water for plant watering. Keep a bucket or container in your kitchen sink to catch water from quick hand washing or scrubbing vegetables. If boiling eggs, pasta, etc. dump that water in the container also. Got a half drunk bottled water container? Dump it in the bucket. You'll be surprised at how much you can save.

mulch

We may be faced with NO outside watering, so don't bag those falling leaves, put 'em on your flower beds as mulch to hold moisture in or start a compost pile.

By NancyK

Urban Cost Share

Need a rain barrel? The next deadline for applying to have 75% of the cost reimbursed is Jan. l
See http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/LUESA/Water+and+Land+Resources/Programs/Conservation/UCSP.htm#Best%20Management%20Practices