1. Cut your watering time by 10 percent, and lighten up on the feliilizer.

2. Tune up your automatic sprinkler system. You wouldn't expect your car to run for years without adjustments and still get good mileage. Sprinklers won't do it either.

3. Water only early in the morning and after sundown. Check out www. watersaver.org for the amount of time to water yards.

4. Find those leaks and fix them. Do you hear an annoying drip or a remote hissing? It could be a leaky spigot or a toilet (costing you 15 gallons every hour).

5. Cut down your shower time. The average person showers for 8 minutes (yes, we've been checking) .You can shower for 6 and be semi- squeaky clean.

6. Run your dishwasher 10 times in 2 weeks? Run it chock full 9 times.

7. You're doing 10 loads of laundry each month? Load up the washer and do 9.

8. Use a bucket instead of a hose when washing your car. One for soap and one for rinse. That's how your grandfather did it, and don't you wish you had a car as good looking as his?

9. Get out the real broom instead of the water broom and sweep your walks and driveways instead of hosing them down.

10. Sorry, kids. No running through the sprinkler and swooping down the water slides this year. The neighborhood pool will have to do.

ss source: Denver Water Board