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Kikujir0
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Some parts of QLD dont have any water restrictions  .
When we took our boat up there, usually there are restrictions that you can no longer wash your boat with the public tap thing, in Sydney anyway. We found there was none of that and thought it a bit odd, anyway saved us the trouble later on.
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Families near my place have started drinking grey water too. I've seen signs up on fences with 'grey water used in this household' and so on (grey water is the same as recycled water right?). I was at first against it, but when it comes down to it, survival beats out all criticisms.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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i think Grey water refers to using waste water from the washing machine and so on on the garden, instead of flushing it into septics or sewage.
grey-water, because the water that comes from the washing machine is typically blue-grey.
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| Capoeira wrote: | | Families near my place have started drinking grey water too. I've seen signs up on fences with 'grey water used in this household' and so on (grey water is the same as recycled water right?). I was at first against it, but when it comes down to it, survival beats out all criticisms. |
Normally you wouldn't drink grey water, you'd use it for your toilets and for watering your gardens, cleaning your gutters, that sort of thing. You can do the same thing by putting buckets in your shower, reusing bath water rather than just pulling the plug (by which I mean using buckets to carry it to the yard)
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| magrat wrote: | | ...putting buckets in your shower.. |
We have recently started doing this. It is a bit of a hastle to cart the water around, but considering my father's retirement is 80% his garden it is worth it. We are in fact trying to work out a way to gerry rig (MacGyverize) pipes or hoses or something so we can move the water that way, but for now.. its just buckets.
I was AMAZED the first time I saw how fast the buckets in the shower filled up. I mean I knew the figures, but there is a difference between seeing something written down, and actually seeing it.
Anyone notice how much the cost of Car wash has increased? Its starting to get rather offensive around here.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| ObsoletE wrote: | i think Grey water refers to using waste water from the washing machine and so on on the garden, instead of flushing it into septics or sewage.
grey-water, because the water that comes from the washing machine is typically blue-grey. |
Spot on.
I don't have a problem with drinking recycled water what I do have a problem with is after a few years will the filtration be the same?
I don't know how it works to be honest but especially if it is contracted out I can imagine it will be 'skimped' on.
Also what level of purification can be acceptable also?
like only 0.01% of ecoli or something?
That 0.01% is too much in my books.
I'm guessing it will never be like say 'nobles' 100% pure water where it has nil impurities.
But still something needs to be done with the water situation.
Whatever happened to desalinisation?
I'd much rather that than filtrated urine and curry gone bad kind of stuff.
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There was meant to be a $30m referendum for Brisbanites to vote on this issue. I was talking to one of my builder's who told me that his mate works for the largest water company in the world (name witheld), and who had already won a tender to start the water treatment programs in Brisbane and to construct a desalination plant in the Gold Coast. At that time the vote was still meant to be going ahead, wasting millions of dollars since the goverment had already made their mind up.
A few days later Premier Beattie changed his mind and said that we have to do it and there's no point in voting...politics...
I have no problem drinking recycled water as I know the technology is there to make it pure. The water in our taps is currently awful. You can taste the metal in it. That's why I have a filter fitted on my tap and it works perfectly. Don't whinge about it, just get a filter.
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| Mitchacho wrote: | | The water in our taps is currently awful. You can taste the metal in it. That's why I have a filter fitted on my tap and it works perfectly. Don't whinge about it, just get a filter. |
Its not awful, its SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIzzzzzzzzzattT
Had to make the word PG rating.
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Man tap water in Sydney is already bad enough.. I boil my water and fill my drink bottle and shove it in the fridge. Thats how I like it. Cant imagine having recycled water - it will be interesting to see in several years if theres any side effects (mutants ect.  )
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| GroovySamurai wrote: | | Man tap water in Sydney is already bad enough.. I boil my water and fill my drink bottle and shove it in the fridge. Thats how I like it. Cant imagine having recycled water - it will be interesting to see in several years if theres any side effects (mutants ect. ) |
i'll let you know when i start growing a 3rd arm
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I remember a story of when my school still did trips to the local sewerage treatment plant; where after filtering and settling the solids, they ran the water through a bacteria + rocks thing.
Depending on who was showing you around the person either swam in it or dipped a glass in and took a drink.
P.S. A brita filter may be less of a sumpreme waste of energy than reboiling everything. That would not do much good apart from prehaps kill Bacteria (should already be dead) and remove temporary hardness.
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