{"id":557397,"date":"2026-07-19T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557397\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T12:02:14","slug":"basin-in-the-shower-as-a-water-conservation-trick-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557397\/","title":{"rendered":"Basin in the shower as a water conservation trick \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 In the late 1990s I was privileged to serve overseas with the Defence Forces in Cyprus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">We \u201clived out\u201d in privately rented accommodation with the usual bills that one might expect. The odd one out was water, that was unexpected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Some months it wasn\u2019t unusual for the water bill to exceed the electricity bill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A small trick to conserve water was to put a plastic basin into the shower in the morning. The water saved could be used for shaving, flushing the toilet, or watering the plants. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The lesson never left me, and I use it to this day. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">DERMOT DUGGAN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Baldoyle,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Just like the five Wise Virgins who not only kept their lamps trimmed, but also had reserves of oil, my plastic water butt, installed in advance of threatened water charges, has come into its own. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">MARION WALSH,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Donnybrook,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 In the late 1990s I was privileged to serve overseas with the Defence Forces in Cyprus.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[13308,246,61,60,82,26701],"class_list":["post-557397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-defence-forces","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-water-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}