Water Restrictions - How to save water?

[FJRider]

All (new) houses out our way have to have 25,000 gallon tanks - ours is only 20,000 gals and I've only ever seen it 85% full - the year we had 650mm of rainfall - not enough roof catchment area. Going to put a gutter on the tank - an extra 64 m2 - it all helps.....

I think you will find it's a 20,000 LITRE tank.

[SPman]

No - gallons - ours is a 100,000 litre tank - about 8m diameter and 2m high. Our neighbours is 2.3m high, 8m dia. Then, we have 2 6000l other tanks, and several 1000l plastic in frame tanks to pick up water off small sheds and things.....We have a low volume bore
Trouble is, we only have a small house and roof catchment area - house and barn only come to about 190m2 of roof area
We have a low volume bore as well - about 40 gals/hr, but the waters a bit salty.....

[Big Dave]

..We have a low volume bore.

You're not that bad.



I'm in Brisbane medium density - new building has to have.

Tanks - I've got 2 total 20,000 but that's over spec.

Half flush cisterns

Low volume shower heads

Aerators on taps.

Rainwater catchers if swimming pool.

There are probably more but that's all I note.

[Maha]

I have just started with the half flush thing, over the duration of year, that alone is will be a decent saving on the water bill, drought or no drought.

Does not work on the ole' taniwha's though.

[FJRider]

I have just started with the half flush thing, over the duration of year, that alone is will be a decent saving on the water bill, drought or no drought.

Place a brick/rock (or 2) in the bottom of the Cistern ... so when it fills ... there wont be as much water in it as usual. It wont affect it any other way.

[Berries]

I placed a brick in the bottom of the pan one morning and couldn't get rid of it with a fucking hose.





I do love an Italian.

[ellipsis]

...do not drink the stuff, fish fuck in it and it's only at the half way stage as a liquid...hops and other shit have to turn it into something fit for drinking...a priest told me that on the way to the local orgy one afternoon...fuck all water drinking going on there, I can tell you!...

[Big Dave]

Ot - but some might appreciate

In the 24 hours to 9am Sunday, Brisbane received 92 millimetres of rain.
Deception Bay, north of Brisbane, received 168 millimetres in the same period.
Brisbane has already received half its average yearly rainfall.
In the past two days, the city has received 106.4 millimetres of rain – that's about 10 millimetres more than the average rainfall for the entire month of March.
Since 9am on Sunday, nearly 100 millimetres has fallen in Kenmore Hills.
Over the weekend, an upper-level low and a surface trough sitting off the east coast lashed the central and northern parts of the state.
A gauge on Munburra Road, south of Mackay, recorded 325 millimetres of rain from 9am on Sunday.
Mackay received 139 millimetres of rain.
On the Gold Coast, council crews are busy clearing debris from sand cliffs up to four metres high that line much of the shore.
Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate has estimated the repair bill will top about $30 million and has asked for the state government to pitch in.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/envi...#ixzz2MXk6NXn4

[Brian d marge]

Collect some stienlager bottles or lion red , piss in the bottles untill just below the top , using a capping machine ( cheap from home brew shops) cap the bottle

This will keep for up to a year

and when opened will still taste like piss

Stephen

[Akzle]

Collect some stienlager bottles or lion red , piss in the bottles untill just below the top , using a capping machine ( cheap from home brew shops) cap the bottle

This will keep for up to a year

and when opened will still taste like piss

Stephen

you're a bad person.

[Mom]

I want to find a way to divert our washing machine water to a holding tank for using. This is my new mission

[Edbear]

I want to find a way to divert our washing machine water to a holding tank for using. This is my new mission

My Bro-in-law in Rotorua makes holding tanks suitable for placing under a deck as well as rotational molded tanks.

[FJRider]

I want to find a way to divert our washing machine water to a holding tank for using. This is my new mission

I spent about 9 years working in the irrigation industry. It has been done ... often. The washing powder does affect the plants ... so a biodegradable washing "product" should be used.
Dirty water spread around the same areas will cause a smell (read pong ... and not nice in the vege patch) ... so "water down" the washing water at least 50/50 to reduce this.
A thick scum will also settle on the tank bottom ... and will require cleaning out on a regular basis (how many more dirty jobs do you need ??). It also is a good place for the encouragement of nasty bugs/insects diseases (read infections) to start from. As will the area you regularly place the water.

Washing machine pumps wont pump very high (or far) ... so depending on where you want to situate the holding tank is important (if you really are determined) ... as it may need to be pumped in two stages.

Washing water is best put directly in an area away from the house, and not where you walk on a regular basis. Your health and that of your family depends on this.

They call it GREY water for a reason ...

[Murray]

Why not bring forward the England cricket test matches and play all three of them in drought struck areas.

never fails to produce rain - even did it for the first match in Whangarei

Rain stops play for first test!! Sweeping heavy rain in Dunedin!!

Don't like to say I told you so but !!!!

[Paul in NZ]

Water restrictions piss me off....

In Kapiti - being on the west coast we are hardly short of rain 'cos when it rains it bloody lashes down... There is just no where to store it. So - rather than build useful infrastructure like a decent resevoir we spend $8M plus on fucking water meters and we are brain washed into thinking we are all wasting a precious resource... Arse....

If I want to water my bloody lawn so it looks nice - wtf should I pay through the arse to some lazy council more worried about swimming pools and flash head quarters rather than providing proper infrastructure. The pricks encourage building like crazy to get the consents fees and rates and then restrict the water supply and moan... Just build a bloody dam you morons... Its jobs and water....