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In honor of Drinking Water Week each May, Klickitat PUD reminds its water customers to exercise their blue thumbs.

By taking simple steps every day, customers can keep their water bills down, allow facilities to serve more customers with the same amount of water (thereby cutting costs to all customers), and prevent sewer systems from being overloaded.

Every home uses more water than it needs to and there are many ways to cut water use without affecting your lifestyle or costing a lot. For example:

• Toilets can be a home's biggest water waster, so check there for leaks. Put a few drops of food coloring in each toilet tank and without flushing, wait a few minutes to see if the color shows up in the bowl. It's possible to waste a few thousand gallons of water a day with an invisible toilet leak, and that adds up.
• Toilet flushing is responsible for up to half of the average home's water bill. Upgrading to a new low-flow toilet is inexpensive and an easy way to cut water use by 25 percent.
• Check every faucet in your home for leaks. Even a small leak can waste 150 gallons a day, or add $4.50 to your monthly water bill. If you can't find the source of a leak, contact the PUD Water/Waste Water Department. They'll send someone out to give you a hand.
• Most PUD water customers double or triple their water use in the summer, so it pays to use good sense in watering lawns and gardens. Do it early in the day, not in the midday heat. Avoid windy days. Landscape with low-water plants and rock gardens to reduce the amount of lawn. Use trickle-drip irrigation instead of sprinklers.