Recently released in Australia, Oxijet is a shower nozzle that creates air bubbles that make your shower feel A-MAZ-ING, while at the same time cutting your water use by up to half. It was developed by New Zealand company Felton, with the expert input of our fluids specialists.
You can read more about it in our blog post from last week or check out the vid below.
Well, today we’re feeling a bit bubbly ourselves and have a handful of Oxijet nozzles to give away. All you need to do is leave your best (or most creative) water saving tip in the comments field below. Our favourite respondents will be rewarded with their very own Oxijet nozzle.
Update Thursday 7 February: This competition is now closed. Thanks for all your fantastic tips. We’ll be announcing our water-wise winners later today.
6th February 2013 at 10:31 am
When we go camping, we fill 2L bottles with water which we freeze and use to keep our food cold; each day a bottle is removed from the eski and provides drinking water! Two for the price of one.
6th February 2013 at 10:17 am
When mowing the lawn in summer, leaving it longer helps keep the soil from drying out, so you can water more infrequently.
6th February 2013 at 10:10 am
Our house is quite old, and has no engineering solutions. Instead to save water, we share bath water with the kids, yes even on those days where we are all sandy or dirty from playing outside. Another water saving tip (also prevents waking others up in the house through the night), which may sound a bit gross, is to not flush the toilet during the night, which saves at least 3-4 flushes every day! Outside, when it rains, we collect water from drip points off the house and use it days later to water the plants.
6th February 2013 at 9:45 am
In our house, our favorite water-saving solutions are engineering solutions, as they are usually more reliable than behavioral ones. We also prefer solutions that are popular, because we realize that our household impact is minimal on a global scale. So, we’ve installed a switchable system that takes waste water and pipes it through ag pipe onto our lawns and gardens. When we have plenty of rain, we switch it off, allowing the rainfall to dilute the nutrients from the waste water. We’ve also installed moderately economical shower heads.
However, for our family to have the biggest impact, I suggest that news@csiro send me an Oxijet shower head. and I offer it to families within our Scout Group on a short-term trial basis. When word has gotten around sufficiently, we can install it in the shower at the Scout Hall, and include an A4-sized fact sheet in the entrance of the hall indicating that the Hall is fitted with a shiny-new Oxijet shower head (using CSIRO technology), and extolling the environmental and comfort virtues of the device. I’m thinking of a sheet along the lines of the fact sheets that sit alongside the Dyson Airblade hand-driers and water-less urinals in CSIRO. In this way, we can perhaps have a very large impact on our community’s water useage.
6th February 2013 at 10:37 am
love this it will get the future generation thinking of engineering solutions.
7th February 2013 at 4:43 pm
We like your thinking Darren. You’ve won an Oxijet to share with your Scout Group. We’ll be emailing you shortly to let you know how to claim your prize.
6th February 2013 at 9:05 am
When I rinse out my milk bottles for recycling, instead of pouring the rinse straight down the sink, I water my pot plants!