You know what’s really funny? You live right at the beach and yet you’re city is having a water crisis! The City of Long Beach in California is facing a water crisis and is encouraging its residents to conserve water. Residents are instructed to minimize the use of the sprinkler, spend less time in the shower, ensure that water is not running while brushing teeth, etc. Even restaurants are instructed not to provide drinking water to customers unless they ordered it. So don’t be amazed when you drive by one of the communities there and noticed that the lawn are brown not green. Or if you see people who has not taken a shower, LOL!

Eventhough the city is close to the beach, the residents cannot use the water their because it’s not as clean as the tap water. Tap water is one heck of a commodity, believe it or not! Gone are those days when people back then pretty much uses the water in the Pacific Ocean.

Here are some tips to conserve water from the Associated Press:

Slightly cut shower times. New shower heads use up to 2.5 gallons a minute. In a family of five, if everyone cuts just one minute off their daily shower, that can save at least an average of 12 gallons of water a day with very little effect in lifestyle. Consequently, it will also help you conserve energy since the family will utilized less hot water.

Change all your faucet aerators. At the end of most faucets is a little round fitting with a screen called an aerator. In most cases they simply unscrew from the spout, which lets you clean them out - or in this case, replace the standard faucet ones with new “water saving” aerators now available.

Install water saving aerators. This kind use an average of 1.5 gallons a minute which is about a 30 percent savings over standard two-and-a-half gallon-per-minute aerators.

Install a High-Efficiency-Toilet (HET). Most new toilets flush with 1.6 gallons of water, and older toilets use a lot more than that. HET toilets flush with 1.3, or less. Cutting your toilet flushing water by installing a HET can save you 2 to 5,000 gallons of water a year, per toilet.