Comments on: GIVEAWAY: Enter to Win a Sloan AQUS Grey Water Toilet System That Recycles Your Sink Water (Worth $189)!

By: cdagfirevols

cdagfirevols — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:15:58 +0000

Simple & Economical innovations.

By: DajaW

DajaW — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:57:50 +0000

After washing my vegetables I use the same water to water my flowers and plants inside the house.

By: RadioFreeManda

RadioFreeManda — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:32:02 +0000

My biggest visible water-sink is in watering my garden, so I try to collect water from around the house to do it. I save water used for steaming veggies and other simple cooking/household tasks, collect rainwater in barrels, and my personal favorite: use the basement dehumidifier water instead of pouring it down a drain. Sometimes I’ll pour the dehumidifier water into the washing machine as well

By: Donna Doolittle

Donna Doolittle — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:08:56 +0000

Think about water as if you had to walk miles to get it & haul it home again. Or camping.

To wash dishes I use the biggest container that needs washing as a dishpan. Put some water & dish detergent in the smallest item, like a glass. Wash it and let the soapy water & rinse water go into a larger item, or the “dishpan.” If some of the items have too many solids on them, I first use a long handled brush and a cup of water to clean out the excess first–you can use the same water for all the items that need it.
I don’t ever run a dishwasher that isn’t full. If I do this quickly, I never have to use anything but light wash. When the last pot is washed you can put water on the garden or lawn. Or just let it sit in the sink for rinsing things to go into the dishwasher.

I lived in India for 2 yrs. Forget about running water for brushing teeth. Have a bottle or glass partly filled with water, and pour from it to wet & rinse the toothbrush & your mouth. In the U.S. you can just use your tap water to fill the bottle.

Point of use water heaters REALLY save water for showers. Just turn it on when you first get up to give it 10-15 min. to heat the water. If you don’t have one, you can save the water that runs before it gets hot enough. And turn off the water while you lather & scrub.

Garden smart. ANY garden takes less water than a monoculture lawn. Mix nitrogen fixing clover with lawn seed, and newer varieties of grass are much hardier. If you connect a multi-hose adapter to the overflow on your water barrel or any container below your downspout, you can route the rain to where you want it through many soaker hoses when it rains. Consider ground covers. I am experimenting with tiny sedums, thyme, and mowed camomile or common yarrow. A half inch of cocoa mulch soaks up and releases water after a rain. In dry times it forms a hard crust to keep moisture in & weeds out. Put it over the soaker hose. And I use water-absorbing crystals under my plantings & in pots. An AMAZING secret weapon that saves moisture for plants, & attracts tons of worms that fertilize and aerate.

And reuse the sink water for the toilet! So glad searching for that lead me to the Inhabit site!

By: Zonahawk

Zonahawk — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:48:00 +0000

Love This!

By: kj

kj — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:19:48 +0000

1. I have designed and currently operate a Mop Water Reclamation System at my work. we have completely eliminated a waste stream and turned the dirty mop water into a reusable resource.
2. catch the rain water that exits the gutters and divert that water into a holding tank to use to irrigate landscaping.
3. Capture, filter and reuse grey water from sinks and showers to irrigate landscaping.
4. Capture, filter and reuse the water from car washing.
5. Plant more drought tolerant landscaping.

By: LaDollyVita

LaDollyVita — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:59:52 +0000

There are hundreds of ways to save water! There are the ones I use. I only use my washer and dishwasher when I have a full load. We have water-conserving shower heads. (side note: there is absolutley no reason why anyone needs a shower with 6 heads pointed at you. Seriously, have a little care for your fellow man.) We connected rain barrels to our guttering to collect rainwater for the garden. The indoor plants get a special treat, I use my old aquarium water since it’s full of fish waste they love.

By: dljags

dljags — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:16:26 +0000

I saw this first at a restaurant that was trying to be as neutral as possible, with their own greenhouse attached & as many green innovations incorporated as possible.

By: zehra rizvi

zehra rizvi — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:04:52 +0000

can this is enough for flushing which is used in public tiolet

By: tijeam

tijeam — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:48:50 +0000

I really don’t understand why this isn’t the standard, why flush with clean water, it has never made sense to me. I try very hard to conserve by placing a filled 2-liter and a 20oz bottle in the tank to use a bit less with every flush, and also only flushing when necessary, but this could help me to save even more!! and only $189??? if I don’t win one, I’ll start saving for one now!

By: back

back — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:49:26 +0000

Made my day once once more, great post..two thumbs up!:)

By: KittatinyHawk

KittatinyHawk — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:19:42 +0000

I thought this was great but my toilets are further away in fact across the room. I have septic thought this would be great for people who pay for water.
so it is good to conserve and I have for nearly 40 years…but point I do not like is the chlorine tablets…they are not safe, can emit gas if you use a cleaning liquid and do if you clean your sinks. I use non toxic but chlorine is toxic, and it ruins the bacteria in your septic systems…ruins your lawns near pools…so I will see, I read about it in Mother Earth but is it eco friendly? What if you live in those Fracking Areas?

By: rachelckelly

rachelckelly — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:54:00 +0000

i take baths in a tub half full and wash my clothes in cold water!

By: f8less

f8less — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:37:15 +0000

We have an older toilet that uses a LOT of water per flush, so my better half and I practice the the “if it’s yellow let it mellow rule” when it’s just us at home. Gross…some may think, eco-concious…definitely. Additionally, this year we installed a rain barrel system for watering our garden. Not only does it save us water, but it also saves us time. It’s closer distance than our water spigot, we don’t have to haul out and roll up our hose and when full, it actually dispenses water faster than our hose! Lastly, we swapped out our RO water filtration system for one that blows away the water:waste ratio of our last system. Our old system was around 1:6, whereas our new system is 1:2!

By: Psychonaut

Psychonaut — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:05:09 +0000

I remember when I was growing up my parents would have a brick in the toilet tank to raise the water level

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By: drsushap

drsushap — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:17:21 +0000

I bought an Incolet toilet. It uses no water. I also bought an Aqua2 Gray water system that allows me to re-use my sink, bath, and washing machine water for my plants. The water is pumped into my rain barrels and then used to water my plants. I also have sedums and other drought tolerant plants instead of grass in both the front and back yards, as well as all over my property.

By: davidegoldsmith

davidegoldsmith — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:39:32 +0000

So along with a 2-liter bottle in the toilet tank and the two 55-gallon rain collection drums that are gravity fed to the herb garden, we (not so recently) replaced our shower head with a low flow head that also has a built-in water filter.

By: retroeco.net

retroeco.net — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:46:11 +0000

We use leftover coffee and water from cooking vegetables to water our houseplants. We also use a rainbarrel to capture rain water – it’s been a real plant-saver this past summer in the drought areas of the U.S.

By: nunevega

nunevega — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:32:34 +0000

The easiest tips are the best. Turn the damn water off when you brush your teeth. Millions of gallons of wasted water every year…
Or get a Sloan AQUS Grey Water Toilet System.

By: pauloasl

pauloasl — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:05:45 +0000

Hi Guys! I Bought a 20 gallons container, and every time i take a bath, i fill the container using the hose from the shower with the first cold water. When the water becomes warm i’ll turn it off, get the hose in the proper place, turn the hot water on, i wet myself, stop it again, i wash myself and finally turn it on again to wash the soap away! The container has a valve and every time i need to flush the toilet i use this water!