Hot Water Heater Conservation Tips

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Cathi Pare with the City of Santa Barbara Water Resource Department speaking to you today for expertvillage.com. We were talking about latest new technologies that you have in your home to help you conserve water and to make it more efficient. One of the things that people complain about all the time is waiting that 5 minutes it seems in the morning for the cold water to come out of the shower before you can get in. What a waste of water just going down the drain. There is a couple of different features. You can use your existing water heater. There is a water pump. It is a circulating pump that you can set to come on in the morning before you get up. It circulates the hot water through the pipes so that when you get up in the morning and you turn that shower on, boom! You have hot water. Nothing wasted down the drain; you are ready to go. If you don't have an electrical outlet or you don't wish to pump like this on your hot water heater, you can attach a small pump in the back, in the very far of the sink. Underneath it needs electricity, it hooks into water and what it does is the same thing, it grabs the water from the hot water. It circulates the cold water out of your pipe through the pipe back to the water heater so that it doesn't go down the drain and you have water at your fixture. Some of those even come with a remote so that you can push a button when you are in the guest bathroom and have hot water there too. "