washing appliance 2 can vary without departing from the spirit of the invention for instance a touch screen display or the like such as that disclosed in pending u s patent application ser no 09 741 067 filed dec 12 2000 and entitled u201c interactive control system for a laundry appliance u201d which is incorporated herein by reference could be readily employed instead it is merely important that the user of washing appliance 2 is provided with controls which enable desired parameters including water level wash temperature wash duration and even clothes type to be selected to this point it should be recognized that the basic controls associated with first second fourth and fifth control units 30 35 55 and 65 are known in the art and not considered part of the present invention the same is true with respect to the use and operation associated with buttons 48 49 and 50 therefore no further details of these control elements will be provided here as this structure has only been described for the sake of completeness instead the present invention is particularly directed to the incorporation of control buttons 38 and 47 as well as the corresponding functions performed by washing appliance 2 upon selecting an energy saving wash mode through button 47 as will now be detailed more fully below initially it should be noted that the present invention has two main aspects one aspect concerns establishing a desired balance between water temperature water level and wash performance in order to satisfy energy requirements the second aspect concerns addressing perceived consumer needs and preferences in establishing the manner in which the overall energy saving wash mode can be activated or deactivated with respect to the first feature the level.