What do you do? I reckon Melbournians and Australians have become very clever at saving water... what do you do?
I have a shower timer..
Put the plug in the shower and collect the water and put it on the garden...
Ye old favourite... when its yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down....
I have a special sink bucket in the kitchen for collecting the water when I wash vegies..
I put the rinse water from my washing machine on the garden.. (a full load is ten buckets!!!! Can you believe it! Good for my arm muscles) I used to do no rinsing, coz I use bio-degradable stuff.. but it wasnt good for the garden nor my skin... I need to get some wash balls again...
www.laundryball.com.au/ and a review of them... www.grownupgreen.org.uk/features/
I dont have a tank
Or a composting toilet.. (this is my ultimate goal www.biolytix.com/index.php)
Ive seen some other cool things at the enviro shop www.theenvironmentshop.com.au (I dont think this link it working) but they are in high street Thornbury/Croxton.... like big rubbish bins that have been turned into portable tanks...
I have a shower timer..
Put the plug in the shower and collect the water and put it on the garden...
Ye old favourite... when its yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down....
I have a special sink bucket in the kitchen for collecting the water when I wash vegies..
I put the rinse water from my washing machine on the garden.. (a full load is ten buckets!!!! Can you believe it! Good for my arm muscles) I used to do no rinsing, coz I use bio-degradable stuff.. but it wasnt good for the garden nor my skin... I need to get some wash balls again...
www.laundryball.com.au/ and a review of them... www.grownupgreen.org.uk/features/
I dont have a tank
Or a composting toilet.. (this is my ultimate goal www.biolytix.com/index.php)
Ive seen some other cool things at the enviro shop www.theenvironmentshop.com.au (I dont think this link it working) but they are in high street Thornbury/Croxton.... like big rubbish bins that have been turned into portable tanks...
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Re: Saving water @ home
Mon, April 21, 2008 - 5:31 PMthis book 'Water Not Down the Drain' was written by a guy who reduced his household water consumption by 96%!!!!!!!
www.ata.org.au/publicatio...n-the-drain
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 6:04 AMI've gotten a bit slack..
Used to keep a bucket in the shower.. but now I have a really low flow shower head over bath (I have put the plug in to see how much water it uses.. its good !). Being in a crap flat now - I don't have a garden. .and that is a lot of where my recycled water used to go.. but I still do things like use the hot water off things like pasta to rinse dirty dishes so I use less water when I wash up (by washing "cleaner" dirty dishes)... one thing folks think is a bit weird is I alway spit the tooth paste into the toilet... no point using water to wash it down the sink.. then I clean the tooth brush in half a cup of water and use the same 1/2 cup to rinse..
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 8:53 PMI dont think it weird at all, infact I think its bloody great. Its just little things like that that make the difference. You could use the water from your shower to flush the dunny if you dont have a garden. Just tip it through the front, it doesnt need to go through the cistern. -
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 8:58 PM<<You could use the water from your shower to flush the dunny if you don't have a garden. Just tip it through the front, it doesn't need to go through the cistern. >>
Yeah - used to do that all the time...
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Sat, April 26, 2008 - 3:57 AMThe other big thing I was doing was having a "Navy Shower"..
Basically you turn the water off.. wet yourself. and then use soap and have a scrub and after lathering up - turn the water back on to rinse yourself.. it is really easy to do .. and must save thousands of litres of water a month for everyone of us who does this..
Wikipedia even has an entry on it.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_shower
Then there is the "Hollywood Shower"..
"The United States Navy phrase Hollywood shower contrasts with navy shower, and refers to long lavish showers without limits on water usage – typically given as a reward for navy personnel at sea or following excess water production by the ship's distilling plant occurred, frequently taken by the ship's engineering department."
Too many of us have Hollywood showers methinks..
I see that the "Navy Shower" even gets a mention on a NSW Government's Site as a recommended way to save water.. www.lmw.vic.gov.au/html/doc...thMay.pdf -
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Sat, April 26, 2008 - 4:04 AMAhh that reminds me.. this Every Drop Shower Saver, would make the old navy shower easy. It allows you to turn off the shower just with one lever (rather than the taps) and keeps the water at the right temp so you dont have get it right again and waste water
www.showersaver.com.au/
I first saw it on the new inventors on the ABC. Great show -
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Sat, April 26, 2008 - 4:15 AMThe investors rocks !
Another water saving invention on it was a gravity system which had a reservoir to save the cold water that runs from the hot tap until the water turns hot. It had a thermostat valve that diverted water to storage until the water was hot enough to open the value and send the water through the hot tap.... bloody excellent and every home should have one..
Water Shortages have always threatened many parts of Australia.. Last Summer Melbourne (and many other places) were on water restrictions.. We were doing all sorts of things like buckets in showers and using water two or more times. We cut our domestic water use in Melbourne by about 22%
Last summer we received only 40% of the average summer rainfall and stream flows into our major catchments were well below average.
There is lots of statistics, information and great ways to save water at the site I got the above stats www.melbournewater.com.au/conte...es.asp -
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Sat, April 26, 2008 - 4:21 AMyeah I am really really really suspicious coz its suddenly not in the media. Why is there no talk of water shortages lately? Are we at such a dangerous point that they dont want to create panic? I dont understand why it was all over the media, but not now. Its not like we have had any rain in Melbourne lately. -
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Sat, April 26, 2008 - 4:31 AMYesterdays news perhaps ? They do that all the time. most often it frustrates me about war and tragedy.. which continues.. but because they have "already covered it" it is dropped by the media :(
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