In my last house I had a single compartment sink. This drove me nuts. Growing up we had a 2 compartment sink so doing the dishes was easy - wash compartment, rinse compartment, drying rack. And you just keep going until all the dishes are done. But with a single compartment I wound up filling it, washing the dishes and stacking them on the counter. Then I would drain the sink, rinse under running water, and transfer to the drying rack. Not very good on water, eh? Especially because it limited me on the amount of dishes I could do in one run through.
By the time I moved I had settled on a new system. I used a dish pan, which I set in the sink. I filled this up with soapy water and washed the dishes. As you can see, the dish pan is smaller than the sink compartment, and when I dump the soapy water it fills the sink up about halfway. So a little savings there. Don't mind the mess.
I still stacked the washed dishes on the counter until I could do the rinse. Then I emptied the dishpan and set it (empty) in the sink. I turned the water on just a bit and rinsed the larger dishes. The water would get turned off when there was enough to cover some silverware. Then I would dip the rest of the dishes in the water (and splash water on when necessary). The picture below shows how much water I usually used for rinsing my dishes.
And yes, it got all the soap off.
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We do this at home, Shy. :) I thought my sister made this a rule to simply make my life harder. Haha! But thinking of it now, this really does conserve water more than using running water. I think you can make more use of the last rinsing water though. Instead of draining it directly onto the sink, why not use it to water soil cracks? ;]
Hi,
I wanted to send you a quick note because I read what you wrote about water conservation above.
I just finished helping to create an infographic about how much fresh water goes into things we do and consume. The idea is to bring a little extra awareness to what our every day impact is.
Some of the information was pretty surprising! I had no idea just how much water is needed to produce some of the foods I eat...
Anyway, after reading what you wrote, I thought you might like to use the infographic on Appropriately Mellow.
It's totally free to use, of course. If you do use it, please link back to the original source so anyone else that would like to use it can too.
The infographic is here in the original post link: http://www.lochnesswatergardens.com/pondblog/how-much-water/
Thanks!!
~ Mel
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Lorenza, I did dump the water on the lawn where it needed it most. Was a little nervous that the soap would hurt the lawn but it never did.
Melanie - thanks so much!
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