Here at Fish Face we love projects. We're always tinkering with things, exploring, and experimenting. We also run our shop on a well system in a semi-rural section of Northern Illinois. As anyone who has lived on a well can tell you, it definitely instills an ethics of conservation, cause when you're out of water, it's like being up a creek without a … without water.
Not only do we need to be conscious of our water usage because of the well, we also believe it's important to save some water for the fishes!
To do so, we've added these nifty new rain barrels the shop. It works exactly the same way your traditional gutter system works, except instead of pouring into a pile of mud at the corner of your building, the gutters drain into these barrels. You're probably not going to want to drink from these barrels, but since only 1% of the water we use goes to drinking, there are plenty of other great uses for this so called "gray water". We use the water to clean off our screens after printing a design, to wash down the tent after a muddy festival, to keep our bushes growing in the summer heat, and to fill our water guns (another component of our top-notch security system).
What do you do to save water? Surely there are more ways out there, and we're always looking for new techniques, please share!
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