Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.
Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)
Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)
Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.
Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.
Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.
City of Dallas Water Utilities (DWU) and Dallas Independent School District (DISD) have selected a winner and three runners-up for the "It’s All in a Drop" Video Contest. Designed to take water conservation into the digital age, the "It’s All in a Drop" Video Contest tasked seventh grade Dallas ISD students from four schools to write, produce and star in short videos featuring outdoor and indoor Water-Wise tips. Contest entries were diverse and creative ranging from dancers and singers to anime cartoons and vignettes.
WFAA’s own Pete Delkus served as a local celebrity judge and face of the contest, encouraging student entries and participation. Pete also helped select winner D'Andre Brothers, a seventh grader at WH Atwell Law Academy who made a creative two-minute rap video about water conservation. D'Andre will receive a personal appearance from Pete during a school-wide pep rally and a brand new Apple iPod touch.
To encourage peer-to-peer dialogue, DWU created a Save Dallas Water forum on the popular Web video sharing site, YouTube, where students could view, vote and discuss their video entries. Nearly 4,000 views and votes were tabulated to determine the finalists. First-place winner Brothers, is joined by three runners-up to round out the contest finalists: Lucia Ortega of Harold Wendell Lang Sr. Middle School, Stephanie Foster and Cecily Livingston of Billy Earl Dade Middle Learning Center and Barry Ford of Thomas A. Edison Middle Learning Center. Each runner-up will receive a personally engraved Apple iPod shuffle.
D'Andre Brothers of WH Atwell Law Academy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKxa2wg7EpE
Brittany Wright of Billy Earl Dade Middle Learning Center
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekpdrxEUdI
Lucia Ortega of Harold Wendell Lang Sr. Middle School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqvmu1mBICM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3joy3mU6BA
Barry Ford of Thomas A. Edison Middle School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekpdrxEUdI
