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Replaced a 20+ year GE 18" fridge due to its age. Its insulation was gone, compressor has lost a lot of power and was noisy.

Our new Samsung has more space, less noise, way less heat generation and power consumption, and has no additional bells and whistles.

Like or not, appliances age, and their performance drops.

Same with dishwashers. With the looming water crisis ahead, every drop of savings is a plus.

Arcelik/Beko group uses 1000LT fresh water per year. The rest is recycled in the plant. This is less than monthly consumption of a single household.

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> With the looming water crisis ahead, every drop of savings is a plus.

Agreed.

What's worrying though is the amount of water wasted in the delivery network. Really annoying when people trying to save a litre here or there and then millions are just going straight in to the ground. https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/performance/leakage-p...

> Every day we supply 2.6 billion litres of water, but not all of that gets to our customers. At the moment, we leak almost 24% of the water we supply.

If you speak German and want to see an example for wasting a lot of water so casually:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bykcfJgye2M

The gist of the story is, because of the unmaintained leaky pipes of a decorative water installation, the city of Marburg wasted 20 million liters per year. A comedy show on state television is making fun of them.

When I was working on the grid a few years ago we got all the data on leakage to plow through and it was greater than 50% at that point (UK)!

> Arcelik/Beko group uses 1000LT fresh water per year. The rest is recycled in the plant. This is less than monthly consumption of a single household.

That is far less than I expected. But does it account for the water use in their supply chain? I think that should also be counted.

That said, fridges and washing machines use enormous amounts of power and water, so savings there count for a lot. Far more than in many other household appliances.

> Same with dishwashers. With the looming water crisis ahead, every drop of savings is a plus.

There's a lot to be said with focusing on the right outcomes. We should do everything we can to reduce unnecessary waste and inputs. But, we also need to embrace water reclamation, water recycling. We currently reclaim ~86% of the water in my country. It's not great - but it's a good place to start.

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