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chez
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chez
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tahir
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chez
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tahir
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chez
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chez
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Green Man
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chez
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dougal
Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 7184 Location: South Kent
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 07 10:50 am Post subject: |
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Chez, my understanding is that keeping the water 'sweet' in storage is the tricky bit.
One reason for underground tank location is to exclude light - reducing biological activity.
And it sounds like, for security of supply, you could do with a fair bit of storage capacity.
While the garden wouldn't worry about being irregated with stuff that looked like it had come out of a ditch, and you could flush a loo with non-sweet water, you have need of some secure sweet water supply for washing and drinking. All the more so with the numbers due to increase!
Can't help with composting loos. Maybe you should ask Judy about her Mark 2 ideas https://www.judyofthewoods.net/waste.html
But, as a very small part of any overall water management strategy, I'd still recommend fitting one of these to any conventional loo.
https://www.interflush.co.uk/
and for non-plumbers, its the green bits in the homepage photo.
Small, simple, clever - it enables the person flushing to adjust how much water is used each time.
It stops when you let go the lever.
Simple. Clever. |
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chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35935 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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dougal
Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 7184 Location: South Kent
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 07 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Chez, are you using everything the spring is offering?
It sounds to me as though water storage (for security of supply) could be pretty important to you.
Its more likely that the spring would run dry of its own accord during a drought, rather than that you would "drink it dry".
Put another way, I doubt that the flow from the spring is being determined by your usage.
If you have surplus supply from the spring, that you could store, then the gathering of rainwater need not be part of your 'house' water supply.
However, storing rainwater for garden use (which wouldn't need to be kept 'sweet') would be an additional part of the strategy of reducing your demand from the spring, particularly in time of drought.
And since you never know when a drought is going to start, you should be taking every opportunity to top up your stored supply.
With a supply of sweet water, whether from rain, spring or both, the problem that I was flagging up is that it needs to be kept sweet while in storage.
Give water some air, some warmth and some light and it *will* go green.
Storing it in an underground tank deals with the light aspect and helps to *keep* it sweet.
Similarly, filtration and probably UV sterilisation would be part of making any water storage a 'potable' water supply (drinkable, nothing to do with loos ).
Any reduction in consumption, such as with the Varyflush thing (or a composting loo), would reduce the storage requirement (or put another way, increase the length of drought you could handle) and speed the refilling of your storage. |
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