g'day lloyd,

though some in the world live where rain abounds or more so that others it
still is good to learn the full value of it it may come easy then one day
who knows?

we use lots of our shower and bath water to flush solids only in the toilet
so buckets abound, that saves us a huge amount of water use, try to use all
water at least twice, and using the cup of water to brush teeth is the rule
here. we have very little unmanaged water going down the drain, if we have
to run a hot tap and wait for the hot water that water is collected
perfectly clean water, in clean container that becomes teeth brushing water
at least.

our current stat's are we are using 35litres of water per person, the
council limit is 200litres per peson so you can see that with others like us
out there doing their best there is lots or room for wastage in the use
limits set, and generally the town use is near the average of that upper
limit. there is no tangable reward to save water so very many plant to use
within the limit and do no more.

yes can understand living in units and flats makes it difficult but mange
whatever can be.

our gardens never smell of urine.

yes world wide lots of us cycle our urine into the garden.


"lloyd" wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:33:09 GMT, "len"
wrote:

g'day lloyd,

yes heaps of advantages, we ahve ben doing it for years now usually mix it
with dish rinse water or dish wash water so it goes around.

will keep cats and foxes away also and saves all that wasted drinkable
water
that gets used to flush it away.

would like to have another composting toilet as well good stuff for the
garden, save even more water.


Yes here in the UK we do seem to waste an inordinate amount of water.
I guess in Oz you appreciate it much more. This is a rented place so
I'm quite limited as to what I could do, but flushing a gallon of
water everytime I went to the loo was too painful to bear. OK so in
the past we knew no better, but it is high time new builds seperated
fresh water from grey water and then resused it within the house. The
ability to leave taps running constantly also scares me. I dread to
think how much water we used to waste brushing teeth and leaving the
tap running, or washing the dishes etc.

I seem to remember in the old days as a kid we were given a glass of
water to brush our teeth and not from a running tap?

I was out in the locale on walkies and met a middle aged couple
raiding the blackberry bushes. They had bags full of them and seemed
very keen. We reflected on how much wild food goes to waste in this
country, and the pies, puddings, jams and drinks they were talking
about made my mouth water.

They call this progress!!!!!!!!

PS: what tickles me is to see all the guys coming out of the woodwork
and admitting they do P in the garden. Sort of look upon you all in a
different light now ))))))))))