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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: That'd be and that means it's time to catch up

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Speaker 2: with our sustainability expert Kate hall Ak Ethically, Kate is

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Speaker 2: here with us this morning, Yolda. You know, I think

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Speaker 2: for many people around New Zealand, the last year, well

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Speaker 2: maybe not the last year, but certainly winter and spring

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Speaker 2: has been pretty damp to say the least. But given

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Speaker 2: this is New Zealand, you just know that in about

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Speaker 2: six weeks time, half the country is going to be

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Speaker 2: in drought. We're all going to be facing water restrictions.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be like it's feastal famine, you know.

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Speaker 2: So this morning you have some really useful practical water

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Speaker 2: saving hacks as we prepare for summer.

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Speaker 3: Yes, let's start them now early so we can start

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Speaker 3: practicing them and really make them part of our daily habits,

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Speaker 3: because just like you said, we only get to a

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Speaker 3: point as usual where we have water restrictions and it would

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Speaker 3: be great effort already up today totally. So some of

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Speaker 3: the kind of main ones we can do is collecting

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Speaker 3: water in your shower so during summer I can have

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Speaker 3: a bucket in the bottom of the shower, so when

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Speaker 3: you're warming up the water, waiting for it to go

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Speaker 3: warm or even just you know, it's picking up little

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Speaker 3: bits of water from your shower. Do that and grab

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Speaker 3: that bucket and pour it on your garden to water

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Speaker 3: your plants. Things like that, sameous don't Yeah, yeah, have

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Speaker 3: it in the corner, you know, move it, move it

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Speaker 3: to the side, very good. Yeah. Placing a bowl in

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Speaker 3: the sink can be really helpful too, so when you're

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Speaker 3: washing dishes, when you're rinsing fruit and good juice, things

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Speaker 3: like that. You can also use that water for watering plants.

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Speaker 3: I think that watering plants things. You can set up

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Speaker 3: all these sorts of different gray water catchment things so

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Speaker 3: that your plants can be watered without taking fresh water

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Speaker 3: from the hose.

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Speaker 1: Is key.

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Speaker 3: Again when you are watering plants, watering them in cool hours,

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Speaker 3: so morning or the evening, it just stops evaporation, so

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Speaker 3: you're a to really make use of that water.

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Speaker 2: There's such a such a big as like obvious obviously,

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Speaker 2: but it's such a biggie Like it's crazy how quickly

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Speaker 2: stuff evaporates and once once the real then the sun

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Speaker 2: has that real kind of summer bite. It's just it's crazy,

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Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 3: It just soaks up everything. Yeah, and obviously when you're

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Speaker 3: watering and focusing on the roots and just I guess

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Speaker 3: it's just being really mindful of where the water is

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Speaker 3: going and making sure that your plants are getting water. Though.

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Speaker 3: You know, hopefully if you are collecting a lot of

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Speaker 3: water from your sink in your shower, then you don't

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Speaker 3: need to water your plants.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, yeah, nice.

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Speaker 3: And to your showers, short showers. I know my husband

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Speaker 3: Tim hates say this. He loves a long shower, but

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Speaker 3: aiming for, you know, three to four minute shower. So

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Speaker 3: maybe you pick a song that you really like and

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Speaker 3: you just play the song and when it's over, you

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Speaker 3: know that you need to get out.

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Speaker 2: See, there's there's a hard one for so many of us.

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Speaker 2: I reckon that I have this kind of like in

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Speaker 2: built chronometer, so I just feel like I know the

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Speaker 2: timer is all the time, right like, and I know

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Speaker 2: I've got a really good sense of how long a

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Speaker 2: minute is and how long three minutes is and all

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Speaker 2: that kind of thing. But I feel like my inbuilt

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Speaker 2: chronometer just goes to the dogs the moment I step

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Speaker 2: inside the shower. Yeah, all of a sudden, I'm like, ah,

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Speaker 2: it feels like two minutes. I step out and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 2: that was about eleven learn about that, you know, I know. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: sometimes sometimes this is a bad confessional, but sometimes, oh

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Speaker 2: my god, I'm a thirty eight year old man, and

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Speaker 2: yet sometimes when I know I've got to get out

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Speaker 2: of the shower, I count down in my head from

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Speaker 2: twenty so I got twenty nineteen eighteen, and when I

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Speaker 2: get to the low numbers, sometimes I go five, four

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Speaker 2: and a half, four, three and a half.

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Speaker 1: Three in a quarter.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my goodness, it was just ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: But yes, trying to have shorter showers sometimes it's actually

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Speaker 2: easier in summer as well.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's true. True, you're craving like a warm shower less. Yes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: If you do things like make sure you have a

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Speaker 3: water efficient shower heads, that can be really helpful. So

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Speaker 3: there's actually I need to check if they're still around,

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Speaker 3: But there's free like water audits that are part of

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Speaker 3: a group that E can matters I think used to do.

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Speaker 3: And I remember they came in and they checked all

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Speaker 3: of our shower heads and everything to see what the

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Speaker 3: flow was and through them you can get subsidy off

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Speaker 3: like cheaper shower heads, right, okay, yeah, more water efficient.

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Speaker 3: So making sure you know, if you do know that

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Speaker 3: your your shower is really outdated, yeah, making sure maybe

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Speaker 3: updating your shower head then you can have a longer

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Speaker 3: shower potentially and feel less guilty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right. Things like making sure you you know, run

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Speaker 2: your washing machine and your dishwasher when it's actually full

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Speaker 2: as opposed to two thirds full. I suppose.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we should always be doing that, but I

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Speaker 3: think especially once we're getting into summer, if we start

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Speaker 3: doing this stuff now, then it will be easier for

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Speaker 3: us when we do have more water and restrictions that

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Speaker 3: we're already already in good habits. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, that's great, great stuff, Thank you so much. We'll

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Speaker 2: put those suggestions on the NEWSBALKSB website of course, and

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Speaker 2: you can find Kate on social media. She is Ethically Kate.

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