Many of us are bracing ourselves for a lengthy hosepipe ban - and one clever mum has come up with a genius way to water her plants.
Hosepipe bans are being brought in for parts of the UK as the prolonged hot and dry weather shows no signs of letting up - With the Met Office warning restrictions could last until October.
With little rain expected to arrive, anyone caught breaking the rules can be fined up to £1,000 or in, the worst cases, taken to court.
Taking to TIkTok, one mum has uploaded a video showing a unique method of watering the plants in the garden by reusing water from the house.
The clip, which has been viewed over 600,000 times, is captioned: "No wasting our bath water here! My husband taught me this hack, handy when you wanna keep your garden healthy."
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"After a lovely big bath it's wrong to waste all that water when we're in a heatwave," she writes.
At first we see the mum pulling on a piece of string to drag the hosepipe into her upstairs bathroom window.
Now this is the clever part, she then puts the nozzle in the bath, which is full of water that she had just been soaking in.
Next we see her husband sucking on the other end of the hose so that the water starts flowing down the pipe and into a watering can in the garden.
"Gravity takes over and the water flows form your tub into your water butt," she adds.
The mum claimed she was able to save a whopping 150 litres of water from the bath tub - which she managed to fill 15 watering cans with.
There was a lot of reaction to the video - with many people praising the woman for her genius idea.
When one person claimed it was "cool and amazing", she replied: "Ahhh thanks, I was surprised how many watering cans we can get from it."
"Ooh this honestly never occurred to me!! My bathroom is on the ground floor too, so I could definitely do this," added another.
Many viewers struggled to get their heads around the unique concept - and some questioned whether it was 'illegal'.
There became a bit of a debate in the comments section as to whether the soap and other chemicals in the bath would damage the plants.
Replying to one comment, the mum said: "I deliberately have stopped putting bubble bath in."
Coming up with another suggestion, one person wrote: "Better use would be washing your car then you can use your soap and stuff too and have a proper bath with soap."
Although The Royal Horticultural Society has stated on their website that 'grey water', the sort that comes from the shower, bath, kitchen and washing machine, is fine to water plants with.
"Fortunately, soil and potting composts are effective at filtering them out, and the residues can sometimes act as a mild fertiliser," it reads.
"To minimise bacterial growth, grey water should be saved for only 24 hours, unless filtered through a reed bed or professionally designed system. It is best applied by watering can.
"There should be no problem with small-scale, short-term use of grey water to tide plants over in summer drought."
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