Our plants and pets need more water too, and people want to wash their cars. With all this water use, our water supply gets pretty low. To help with this problem you can try to conserve water. Please look at our tips for conserving water on page 23 and 24. We are lucky that we do not have to carry buckets of water to our homes like they did before Portland had this great water system.
People use water to wash cars.
We use water for watering plants and washing pets. Garden hoses can use up to 600 gallons per hour.