Flushing toilets is another big water waster.
Yep! How many of you brush your teeth and leave the water running while you do that?
Duane
Our desert water doesn't have to heat up as much to get through the pipes as hot water, so it is easier to turn it off and on? I do that on and off trick to conserve water, when I am flushing something clean (not the toilet) like rinsing a toothbrush or razor. Using just a trickle is sometimes more appropriate and uses less water. I do all of these things and some jerk opens a golf course, gets better water cheaper and uses a ridiculous amount of water. There is supposed to be an economic benefit to desert golf courses, but it doesn't happen when it ups my bill to pay for gluttony and filling the corporate coffers of some out of state entity.
Who doesn't flush every time to use less water, then when teh toilet gets dirty sooner because of that, they flush it five or six times to rinse it during cleaning?
I don't use Bob's solution, because it disrupts the animal's lives and ecological balance to mark my territory and if I keep it in only one area, it begins to smell, because there is no rain to rinse it away. I only use it as a supplement. Besides that, hey, what has the world come to if a guy can't take a leak in his own yard?
The tap water here has begun to smell like chlorine, like a swimming pool. My neighbors well went dry during the drought so he had to import water from the chlorine filled source. This water destroyed his cast iron pipes and he had to tear up his entire concrete floor. and redo it because it was such a mess (no carpet, no wood). People in Tucson now have to buy all drinking water and expensive filtration systems. Before we had great ground water.
There is so much salt in ground water, that the farm's soil goes bad after years. These tracts of earth where things now can't grow are what have caused those huge phenomenal dust clouds, which pollute for hundreds of miles, all of the dry times.
Skinnydipping swimming pools in the backyard now cost a fortune to maintain. If we got rid of these silly nudity laws, maybe we could start a campaign to share pools, like sharing rides to work... but nah, don't let them see this body, I need privacy.
Jbee
