Water usage
Apr. 12th, 2012 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbhe4 minutes is still a really long shower for me.
I feel mildly guilty washing the patio with good clean water-butt water, but fine using old bathwater.
We're not saving every drop of wastewater any more but I am still turning the taps off when I wash my hands (wet hands, turn off tap, apply soap, lather and scrub, turn on tap to rinse - uses about half a litre) and trying not to "just wash something" under the tap instead of waiting for the far more water-efficient dishwasher.
Instead of sluicing nappies under running water we're soaking them in a fixed quanitity of water and posh bicarbonate of soda called "nappy brite". I think it's bicarb with extra anionic surfactants. I wonder could we profitably use rainwater for this? probably.
I'd love to figure out rainwater or greywater flushing for the loo. Drinking water down the loo is so annoying.
If we cover over the bike storage area with some sort of roof, we'll have another gutter for another waterbutt. I wonder could we hook it up to the loo somehow?
I feel mildly guilty washing the patio with good clean water-butt water, but fine using old bathwater.
We're not saving every drop of wastewater any more but I am still turning the taps off when I wash my hands (wet hands, turn off tap, apply soap, lather and scrub, turn on tap to rinse - uses about half a litre) and trying not to "just wash something" under the tap instead of waiting for the far more water-efficient dishwasher.
Instead of sluicing nappies under running water we're soaking them in a fixed quanitity of water and posh bicarbonate of soda called "nappy brite". I think it's bicarb with extra anionic surfactants. I wonder could we profitably use rainwater for this? probably.
I'd love to figure out rainwater or greywater flushing for the loo. Drinking water down the loo is so annoying.
If we cover over the bike storage area with some sort of roof, we'll have another gutter for another waterbutt. I wonder could we hook it up to the loo somehow?