Put a brick in your toilet cistern and save up to 3,000 litres of water a year (that’s 35,000 cups of tea!).

If you don’t have a modern, dual flush you could be wasting 12 litres of water per flush! But help is at hand with special magic bricks called save-a-flush or ‘hippos’ which are offered free to customers by many water suppliers. Log onto your supplier’s website and see if they provide them. If they do not, use the ‘contact us’ link to get in touch and ask them why they don’t.

And, while you’re waiting for them to get with the action, either use a real brick – it has the same effect.

If your supplier allows you – Thames Water, for example, provides up to 100 free of charge – make a bulk order and give them out to your friends and neighbours or distribute them at school or church.
(Oh, and incidentally, if you are changing your toilet check out dual flush toilets which give you the choice of a quick or long flush.)

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