If you were limited only three hours of water use, what would you do?

Take a quick shower, run the laundry machine, and fill up enough buckets with water to get my family and myself through the day until we have our next chance at water again. In a situation like that, water should definitely not be wasted. I probably would try not to even take a shower everyday but alternate it. I heard about that little town, too. It's a bad situation and if it continues the town will be doomed. I don't think too many people will put up with a situation like that every summer/fall.

I probably use 3 hours of water use now. It's only my boyfriend and I, so that makes a difference I suppose. Our showers are usually about 20 minutes each, and that's a generous assessment, usually its about half of that. We do approximately 1 load of laundry a day, and the water running is about 20 minutes(maximum, I've never stood there and timed it.) That's hour one. Hour two: Making tea, coffee, refilling bottled water for necessity. Hour three: I have no idea. Clearly I don't use nearly as much water as some people however, families of 5 would get close to that with just showers....

For me it's about the amount of water, no the time it takes to use it. I would put aside a couple of emergency buckets of water to flush the toilet (you know how the saying goes, if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, blush it down,) and I would also plug in a dehumidifier to take water out of the air, using THAT to flush the toilet with, too. I'd put aisde jugs of water for drinking and cooking, and only take a shower every few days. Cleanliness is one thing, but wouldn't a person be better off DRINKING the water, in an emergency?

Well I live close to a river, so if things really got tight, water wouldn't be a problem as long as I could boil it. It would be a real inconvenience to have to drive over there and get it, but it could be done. I would try to store enough during the three hours to get through until the next day. Then I would do some laundry.

i would do the same as jonesy123--fill up and store water in big buckets for the days use.But when i shower i'll limit my use to a small pail instead of using a big pail.If water is really dofficult-- conserving the water from my shower into laundry basins for use to flush the toilet--would be an add on.We bought drums to store rain water last year,so maybe rain water to wash dishes,laundry,etc. whew. that is tough.Water is really imporant.we most often take water for granted as it is readily available to us daily.We dont give much value on them until they're scarce or gone.. good post.thanks kaysue.:))

We're on water restrictions (relaxed, currently), but nothing as extreme as that, thankfully. I'd shower. I'd do laundry, if it needed to be done. I'd do dishes. I'd water my gardens, if the runoff from the laundry and bath weren't enough. Then I'd save enough to keep my guy, my pets, and I in water for a few days. I'd also have a cistern installed.

First thing I will do is to best utilize the availability of water in those crucial three hours. Fill the water tank of my house, try to finish my regular water related work like washing clothes, car etc in those 3 hours. Secondly, I will try to understand the gravity of the problem by socializing myself with others on this issue and if possible will try to contribute to get over with this problem.

Well right now there are six people in my family. What I would do is for each of us to take a bath and make sure to clean ourselves well. Since it's summer now we would make sure to fill enough bottles and whatever else we can find so that we can drink water thoughout the day. So we would have water to drink, water to cook. Wait if the water was only for three hours that would mean that the toilet wouldn't work after the water is shut off. So I guess we would have to put water away for the toilet too. So it would be a lot of water saved for the whole day.

i would fill up with empty container as many as i could.. i would shower, do dishes and laundry.

i would drink for 2 hrs straight, and then i would have a bath and wash up

Take a shower, wash dishes and do laundry. I'd also fill up whatever containers I had with water to use the rest of the day.

We've had our pump shut down in our well or the pipes burst during the winter. Rather than showering my family would fill the tub and each have a bath, change the water when its too dirty for the next person. I already buy bottled water for drinking. I would do a load laundry a day. Put water into containers for pets, flushing, dishes, house cleaning, hand washing and watering plants in my house. I would put out barrels for rain water (hoping for rain). In a case like that i can see stores having a very big run on bottled water.

I would get as many large containres as I can to store water. I would take a quick shower, and would clean up the dishes. And the following day I would do some laundry. I have been out of water in our house many times where you could not wash up dishes for two days, it is not a good feeling. Water is essential to life.

I would get a bunch of gallon jugs and fill them up. If you are talking about outside water usage, I would water my lawn....well that is if I had one.

If three hours volume of water can fill many drums then I will go that way, after getting enough of water for drinking, then fill drums for restroom use and for laundry as well.Avoid using flash if possible since it consume much water than manual flashing.