To wet your toothbrush before you put the toothpaste on. Otherwise, the bristles are too stiff and could damage the enamel on your teeth (or at least that’s what my dentist always told me).
We used to run the tap in the old days because of the sediment settling in the pipes overnight. This ain’t a problem nowadays.
I turn off the water when scraping the teeth, I also turn off the shower to soap up. I turn the water off and on when Im rinsing dishes at the sink as well. We have pletntiful and excellent tasting groundwater. Still I hate to waste it, and it seems like so much is left to run down the drain for no reason.
Good points.
I live in Las Vegas, drought central. However, on a recent television ad from the water department, they said that long showers, baths, dishwashers, washing machines and the like were not a problem and it is not necessary to cut back as that water was going back into our main source of water - Lake Mead (of course, filtered and cleaned first.)
The main waste of water is in garden and watering grass and plants. That is water that is then “gone” and cannot be recycled.
So, although I have never been in the habit of leaving the water on while brushing teeth, at least here in the drought capitol of the southwest, the water district is paying money on television ads to tell us not to worry about water that is used and going back down a drain. Just cut back on watering gardens.
Oh, and they have also said a swimming pool loses far, far less water in evaporation and spillage than an average lawn requires and they would prefer people to have a swimming pool than a grassy backyard in their plan for water conservation.