Reply #90: Tell your mother a stranger on the internet begs her not to run water for 5-10 minutes just....

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...to do a load of dishes in the dishwater. Granted, it's far from the kind of waste of precious water that fracking is but, really, it should be impressed on her that modern cleaning detergents including laundry detergents do not require heat in order to be effective. This also goes for the cleaning powder, "pills" or gel which are likely to be used in a dishwasher.

And I rarely wash laundry in anything but cold/cold since I read that. I haven't noticed a difference at all and it saves money from not using the hot water.

PB