To prevent leaving your hose running, go to the dollar store and buy scratchy material or bright colour scrunchies and put them on your taps.
When you turn on the tap to fill your water buckets or barrels, put one of the scrunchies on your wrist. This way you have a reminder that you have a hose filling your containers.
Now when you get distracted doing something else, as we always do on the farm, you may feel something on your wrist or look down and see the scrunchie and suddenly remember “oh shit, the tap is on!”
Then, you will go turn it off and avoid disaster or draining the well or flooding a stall or paddock!
At least, that’s what a friend told me. 🤣