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My garden is a dried-out dustbowl – should I recycle water?

A man adjusts a hosepipe sprinkler in a garden
Could using recycled water be a way of avoiding using a sprinkler in the garden? Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.

Our garden is starting to resemble a dried-out dustbowl, but my partner refuses to get the hose out, insisting our water bills are high enough already. He’s suggested recycling the bath water, but can you do this? I’m already collecting some of the shower water; are there any other tricks I’m missing?

Do you have a problem readers could solve? Email your suggestions tomoney@theguardian.com or write to us at Money, The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU