to ask if you run water while brushing teeth?

[Mxyzptlk]

A suggestion from our Water Board is to save water by not running the tap while brushing teeth.

Does anyone actually do that? The running water thing?

I don’t run the tap. I spent a bit of time in Australia though and this taught me some good habits though.

A lot of *thoughs in that post 😂

That's how some people learnt to brush their teeth. I use to do it but don't anymore (and been like this for decades? as while I don't have a water meter plenty of my family and friends' do.

No I don't, terrible waste of water.

I used to but remember someone telling me how much water it wastes. So stopped about 20 years ago now! I hope it makes a difference.

I was taught to brush my teeth with a running tap, but I stopped that after staying in 'dry' countries.
So no, haven't done that for years.

It did used to be a thing that a lot of people did. I have been next to a person doing it and had the whole awkwardness of do I interfere or not?

I try not to but it’s a hard habit to break.

As above, did it unthinkingly as it was how I learned as a child. After visiting countries where you had to use bottled water to brush your teeth, it made me realise how unnecessary and wasteful it is.

I always turn it off, better for the environment and my bank balance.

I never have run the water when brushing teeth. You shouldn’t rinse anyway and if you’re doing it properly you should be brushing for a while.

No, because dentists also say you shouldn’t use water while brushing as better to leave residual toothpaste on your teeth.

My father spent many years in a hot dry country, so we were taught as children to always brush without running water. DH says he was taught by school not to run the tap.

I turn the tap off. Big waste of water otherwise, especially as it hasn't rained for ages.

Grew up in Australia so never did this however my partner did when I first met him and drove me nuts until I trained him otherwise.

When I was young everyone left the water running, but after the 1976 drought we were shown how much water that wasted & I changed my ways and have never gone back. There is no need to run water while cleaning teeth & I am surprised people still do this, I thought everyone knew that it is a terrible waste of water whether you are on a meter or not.

I do. Never really thought about it to be honest. My kids do too.

Dh used to and it drove me nuts!!! Now we have a water meter that habit had mysteriously stopped!!

i leave the tap running but at the same time im rinsing dishes, or filling up dogs water bowl, filling up water bottles so the water isnt going to waste

DH used to do it but I think I have finally trained it out of him. I am from an incredibly frugal/poor family and he is from a much more wasteful one so I find a lot of his habits hard

" I do. Never really thought about it to be honest. My kids do too."

doesn't the waste bother you?

Doesn't letting fresh clean drinking water run down the drain bother you even a tiny bit, when there are children drinking dirty water worldwide?

Never. I didn't know it was something that people did until just now. I cannot imagine the reason for doing so, to be hones.

I brush my teeth in the shower whilst I'm doing my conditioner 😳

Honest. Gah.

I went on holiday for the first time with DH in 1978 and noticed he left the tap running, I gave him a lecture.

Last week I heard him talking to the plumber saying I tell him to turn it off but he never remembers.

As I have now been telling him for 40 years, I give up.