Decisions we make every day as we do our laundry, shower, and clean our home can cause pollution of our surrounding water bodies.  Check out these resources that will help limit your impact on water quality by making small changes in your home.

 

General Resources

Family Pledge for Bad Water Habits

  • This pledge helps students and their families work together to use water more efficiently.  How many activities can you complete to break your family’s bad water habits?

Drinking Water Toolkit Logo Water Drop

Drinking Water Resources

Michigan’s Drinking Water Toolkit

Common Drinking Water Contaminants

Well Water Testing

Concerned about Lead in Your Drinking Water?

 

Appliances and Fixtures

WaterSense 2025 Water Saving Checklist

  • WaterSense is a program run by the EPA to label products, homes, and services that meet water efficiency criteria to help consumers identify water-saving options when purchasing new appliances or fixtures.  The Water Saving Checklist provides a month-by-month list of actions homeowners can take to save water in their homes.

Detect and Chase Down Leaks Checklist

  • Easy-to-fix water leaks account for nearly 1 trillion gallons of water wasted each year in U.S. homes.  Use this 10-minute checklist to detect easily correctable leaks like worn toilet flappers, dripping faucets, and leaking showerheads to save on your water bill.

Garbage Disposals and the Environment

Water Softener Salt Usage

 

Laundry Resources

What You Should Know about Microfiber Pollution

Ocean Conservancy Microfibers Fact Sheet

 

Household Hazardous Waste

Why Green Your Cleaning Products? 

Where Does all the Dirty Water Go?

Clean Sweep Directory

Household Hazardous Products

Proper Disposal of Prescription Drugs

Michigan Recycling Directory

 

Examples of household hazardous waste

 

 

Family pledge to fix bad water habits

 

Water Sense Logo and text that says Save Water

Click to find WaterSense labelled products.

 

Facts on Water Leaks Infographic shows the amount of water wasted per year by leaks in the United States

 

We’re all connected by water.