On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 08:40:11 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 8/18/2017 8:21 PM, wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:52:49 -0700, "Cheri" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > wrote
>
>>>> Dishwashers use far less water to do the same amount of dishes.
>>>
>>>
>>> No, they don't, at least not in my house. I use around 2/12 gallons of hot
>>> water for mine, which is what I prefer to do.
>
>> You may prefer to do it by hand but my dishwasher uses far less hot
>> water (thats hot water from the tap, not reheated in dishwasher) than
>> that for two DAYS worth of dishes.
>
>During droughts, they plead with people to use the dishwasher instead
>of hand washing.
>
>We've talked about this before, some woman was positive she used way
>less water and they had a competition. She lost.
>
>nancy

I use very little water hand washing dishes. I use a small dishpan for
hot soapy water, then since the hot water is already at the tap I
rinse... uses very little rinse water for plates and utensils for two.
We use the same drinking glasses all day... I've often seen where
people need a clean glass many times a day just for a few sips... they
fill their dishwasher to overflowing with glasses. For plain drinking
water we use sports bottles... those only need sanitizing once a week,
a half ounce of hydrogen peroxide sanitizes two bottles. We refill
our sports bottles with RO water, we never buy bottled water. We have
our own well so we don't get water bills, however private wells do
require some servicing and it's powered by electric, but those costs
are so minimal we don't consider it a water bill. We have no water
shortages here, if anything we have too much water, especially this
year, with heavy rain nearly every day. One year we had a mild
drought, no rain for some six weeks, I enjoyed not having to mow
grass... still there was no water shortage. The only concern during a
dry spell are fires.

Actually most dish washing here are the cat food bowls, those wouldn't
go into the dishwasher anyway, cat food stinks.