Water Saving How Serious Are You

[Ashore]

After Wongo's thread on water saving while brushing your teeth I figured we needed a post on water saving starting with the basics
so who is green enough to admit leaving it mellow when its yellow and only flushing it down when its brown

[Stuart]

The extra amount of water I 'waste' by 1/2 flushing, is absolutely nothing compared to the amount of water I've discovered a washing machine uses each wash. Was horrified to discover just how much each load takes, although my garden is now a lot happier!

[journeyman Mick]

Depends on:
how full/empty my water tank is, which depends on:
how much/little rain we've had.
Generally I don't need to resort to not flushing, but when we first moved into our place we had a tank that was nearly empty, no rain for a long time and an inoperational bore pump so we had to be very tight with the water. Mostly I'm just careful with it and conscious of usage. I don't generally check the tank unless we've had more than a month with no rain.

Mick

[SPIRIT]

use the lemon tree

[Stuart]

Its good for it too

[Cliff Rogers]

Ta, up here we have HEAPS of water so we don't give a rat's ring.

We do realise that we are very, very lucky & we do have half flush dunnies.... we just press it twice 'cos we can.

We also have an all glass shower in the corner of the house & just stand in the shower for ages watching the world go by outside.... almost feeling guilty.

[WoodyKnot]

Ta, up here we have HEAPS of water so we don't give a rat's ring.

We do realise that we are very, very lucky & we do have half flush dunnies.... we just press it twice 'cos we can.

We also have an all glass shower in the corner of the house & just stand in the shower for ages watching the world go by outside.... almost feeling guilty.

Mate, we have plenty of town water down this way in fact the council is boasting 'bout it. More to the point though, go outside n dig a hole or water a tree. Recycle ya wash water to the lawn or garden and bathe with environmental soap or without in a dam or river. Hell one can even wear ya clothes while ya swim as eventually ya skin goes all wrinkly anyway after a while in the water. It'll give the fish somethin to eat n fatten 'em up for when i go fishin again.

[WoodyKnot]

And by the way as i forgot to put in my other post, to save extra water in ya loo, put a house brick or a paver in ur toilet cistern.

Later,
Mark.

[silentC]

Our bogs are flushed with treated effluent, so I can flush a hundred times and the same water just goes around and around.

[journeyman Mick]

And by the way as i forgot to put in my other post, to save extra water in ya loo, put a house brick or a paver in ur toilet cistern.

Later,
Mark.

Mark,
tyhis might be okay in the older, 9 litre single flush or perhaps even the old 9/6 litre dual flush cistern and pan combinations but is no good for the newer 6/3 litre or less set ups. The newer systems use the minimum amount neccesary to clear waste from the pan, put a brick in the cistern to reduce it an people will end up flushing it twice, thus using more water anyway. You'll make a bigger reduction by switching from a top loader washing machine which uses 100 - 150 litres per load to a front loader which uses a fraction of that.

Mick

[Christopha]

ALL of my grey water goes into an 8'x4'dia concrete culvert in the ground, this has been buried on its' end, a concrete bottom poured and a concrete lid on top. The outfall of my septic tank goes into it, in other words, ALL of my waste water. As I type this it is pumping out onto my vegie patch. Normally I would just water trees etc with it but since my bore dried up it is the only water I have for garden use. I shower with a bucket between my legs and that is used to flush the toilet.

[silentC]

How do your vegies taste?

[Grunt]

Mmmm... Pooh flavoured carrots.

[goat]

pee flavoured peas?

[silentC]

Broccoli flavoured broccoli