Water Restrictions - How to save water?

[Swoop]

that doesnt SAVE water does it

It does if the town supply (rural area) is running low. If working in town (as Mom does) then that would save water at their residence.

[SMOKEU]

Build a water recycling system for the still so the cooling water doesn't all go down the drain.

[wysper]

Buy a shower timer or make yourself one. Seven minutes, in and out.

Jesus, we are down to 2min showers at our place. Kids every second day.

Dishes (hand washed) once a day, water (as its warming up) gets put into the kettle (coffee is still important) or a bottle for drinking water.

As others have said, catch shower water in bucket, this goes to drinking water or garden if there is any excess, or any other use I could think of. If there truly was excess amounts of it I would probably put it back into the tank.

Haven't watered the garden, washed a car or bike in 2 months.

Mellow yellow rule applies.

[Flip]

Water..........

Last week at work we pumped 1.9 million tonnes back up into the lowlands area behind Oamaru.

Yea its getting dry down here also.

[Brett]

[*]I actually catch my shower water, but that is cos I dont goes wees in it


the saved water goes to attempt to keep our really pathetic garden alive.

What more can we do?

How do you guys save water?

Go Bear Grylls and save your urine as an afternoon refreshment. The average person drinks 1.5 - 2 litres of water per day on a hot day, so you could halve this by do a 50/50 mix with urine and water. Of course, your urine will get stronger in salts thanks to the increased salts intake, so you might need to balance this.

[Zedder]

Brought up by parents that grew up on tank water, and then being on tank water ourselves with a young family we went to extremes to save water. The If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down mantra was on the wall of our toilet for visitors. No showers, one bath for all to wash in....dirty fathers last - then I had a pump I dropped in the bath and pumped into the washing machine. So washing last thing at night, fresh water rinse, but bath water wash. The laundry water went into a holding tank which was used on the vege garden in summer, and just run into the stream in winter. Gotta be careful with laundry water on the garden, it's too alkali, that's as bad as an acid soil. Never, ever wash a car or bike....at your house, wash it somewhere else. Wash dishes by hand once a day...minimal water.

We live on our largest river now - no shortage of water, but the filters can't keep up because of the alge in summer. I'm still pretty frugal with water.

That certainly brought back memories of earlier years Motu.

We still conserve water automatically even though we're on town supply plus we've got 1500 litres of backup for various uses.

[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

[Maha]

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

Mention the words 'BBQ for tea' and it normally rains...we use the BBQ most nights and still no rain.

[Big Dave]

Can't get rid of all the water in SEQ currently. All my favourite roads have turned to bogs.

Last few years we had water restrictions.
It was quite a good bit of social engineering if the way the populace is now more efficient with use is the measure - even though the restrictions have been lifted.
How little water blasters use in comparison to t'ose is the best I got from 'em.

They also have quite a lot of water conservation measures included in the building code too.

[SPman]

Buy a shower timer or make yourself one. Seven minutes, in and out. Also get yourself a water-efficient shower rose. The latest ones work really well in terms of an in-shower experience.

Seven minutes!

Such profligacy!

Two is quite sufficient - with the shower waste out to the garden!

With 550mm a year, (on a good year), tank water and 3 months averaging around 35, we get used to being a tad conservative with water use.

Also, buying in water is fecking expensive - $180 for 12,000 litres.

Anyway - if we want a soak we just float around in the pool...err.... fire fighting reservoir.......

[Road kill]

that doesnt SAVE water does it

It saves the water in My tank.

And the water at work comes from a private bore as well,,,not that I care.

There ya' go hippy,,get stuck in.

[jellywrestler]

The If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down

if it's Red????



it's probably oscar pistoriuos's toilet?

[Berries]

Just pretend you are on tank water. And get tanks obviously.

Our house is built on top of two tanks, probably 40,000l but can't tell. Have run out once and that was a bad year coupled with two young kids and two big greenhouses. Just installed a 15,000l tank on the extension which means we should never run out again and means hose pipe bans can fuck right off.

Oh yes, I piss in the sink as well which has become a habit. The cleaners at work aren't impressed much, which is surprising as they are Indonesian. And the wife nearly knocked herself out trying. Fucking Methven.

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

Sad as it seems I am thinking the same thing about the match next week. We need some rain.

[SPman]

Just pretend you are on tank water. And get tanks obviously.

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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.....

[Owl]

I actually catch my shower water, but that is cos I dont goes wees in it

Tip: If you ski in Winter....don't eat the yellow snow!