jones wrote:
In our house, we have been collecting the washing machine water for years.
It is definitely amazing how much water you can get. We mostly just save the
rinse cycle and carry it out in buckets. We have also bought a largish
plastic rubbin bin and put that under a roof section where the water comes
off. Again lots of water.

Then you see other neighbours just wasting it, how they like.
Aaaarrrggghhhh.

Funny thing though the water bill is not much lower. I think Sydney Water
keeps bumping up the price without telling us. :-)

Katherine


"Claude" wrote in message
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As an experiment, I caught all of the water coming out of the washing
machine this morning in buckets. To my amazement, I captured 10 buckets
from the wash cycle and another 10 buckets from the rinse cycle! At an
average of 8 litres per bucket, that's a helluva lot of water - enough to
water my modest suburban garden.


The more for less trick. A con perpetrated in times of need and never
removed in times of plenty. Like the oil companies.
We had 5 more people staying at one point in time, and when they left
there was no reduction in water usage. I queried this and they didnt get
back. I has happened again. We reduced water consumption and the bills
stay the same. But the water used now is 200 litres per day less.
Wonder how this will affect the poor water companies?