Would love to see new builds factoring this in better too.
i.e Grey water.
Flushing toilets with flawless drinking water is insane
i.e Grey water.
Flushing toilets with flawless drinking water is insane
Of course, if the system is cycled frequently (i.e. the water doesn't stagnate for months), then it's even better
You may not be doing anything wrong and still get a bad result, while somebody else in a different location may do a lot of things wrong and still get good results.
I’m not sure I’d go that route, but it seems to work for him, and makes an area where wells don’t produce habitable.
I meant more utility provided grey water. Meaning they still clean it up...just not all the way to drink quality. As with many things in life getting to those last few % to 100% are disproportionate and incrementally expensive/hard. So if you can flush toilets with 95% or whatever that's a win
It's not that expensive to install at that time and saves a lot of potable water. Seems like a no-brainer to me to do this everywhere.
You're also not paying for the sewer use if you flush with it (since sewer isn't metered)
Assuming Google is accurate and the average American is similar to the average Canadian.
> The average American uses over 100 gallons of water per day
100 gallons/day * 365 days * 3.78 liters/gallon = 137,930 liters
Isn't that just 8 or 9 people's drinking water?
If you disagree with that, work backwards from your answer.
950,000 liters saved divided by 40,000 = 23.75 liters per year? That seems too low.
950,000 divided by 40000 = 23.75 liters
I feel like that is an absurdly low amount for a person to drink per year.
Also, I don't think the 100 gallon number includes industrial use like "golf courses".
> The average American family uses more than 300 gallons of water per day at home. Roughly 70 percent of this use occurs indoors. In addition, there are other miscellaneous uses of water in the house which may be very significant, depending on the degree of water conservation by the household.
potable water has very well defined properties. Its has a low salt concentration, pretty well known (and diminishing) chloride concentration, and known hardness.
It wont give you any surprises when designing a water system.
Grey water is whatever a human decided to put down certain drains. This could be very benign, but end users are... special.
Will they out cooking grease down the drain?
Will they pour industrial cleaners?
How about if the end user is an artist who etches glass in the attic bathroom and rinse the HF in the sink?
Will they pour "Jimmy"'s, the fish, bowl water and sand?
Is shower water "grey"? How about those fellows (they exist) who poop in the shower and squish it down (one of the grossest things I learned on the internet)?
And what about "Poochie", the pitbull, who loves to drink from the toilet bowl?
What about "Max", the three year old toddler, who loves to wash his hands in the toilet bowl?
Grey water should be used, extensively, but it is not a turn-key solution, and it certainly is way more expensive to build for.
Any good kits for this in the UK?
however, using greywater puts additional burden on the equipment in terms of maintenace (dirt layering on the walls and general externalities of unclean water) hence the economic incentives have to change before this will take on.