Conserving water.

policarp · 26-06-2011 1:12pm #1

Was talking about water conservation last night and someone came up with the slogan that they had heard years ago, about when to flush the loo. "If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."
Would AHers agree or is there better ways to save water?

Biggins · 26-06-2011 1:13pm

We do our best in our home, to try conserve water - within good levels of keeping things clean and decency.

Oranage2 · 26-06-2011 1:14pm

policarp wrote: »

Was talking about water conservation last night and someone came up wi

th the slogan that they had heard years ago, about when to flush the loo. "If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."
Would AHers agree or is there better ways to save water?

just sh!t and p!ss out the back.

Fremen · 26-06-2011 1:18pm

Not using garden sprinklers or hoses, and buying and using a dishwasher (properly) would be much more effective.

Why would you need to conserve water anyway? It's Ireland. Fresh water's hardly in short supply.

krudler · 26-06-2011 1:18pm

policarp wrote: »

Was talking about water conservation last night and someone came up with the slogan that they had heard years ago, about when to flush the loo. "If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."
Would AHers agree or is there better ways to save water?

I think I'd prefer to use water than have my house smell like stale piss in fairness.

Needler · 26-06-2011 1:19pm

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Bens · 26-06-2011 1:21pm

I have met many people who claim to conserve water. Sort showers, dont flush toilets ofet if only doing a number one , etc . I used to conserve it myself.

Then I realized all these peoples houses smelled of p1ss whenever I was in them.
They also all had BO.

When I made the connection I had the terrible thought that maybe my of lack of flushing and quick showers made myself and my house smell too. We thought we had good levels of cleanliness, but you know, you cant smell your own living conditions or BO.

So I asked my best friend and he said, "well I didnt want to say, but yes, there is a strong smell of piss in your house all the time". He didnt admit that I had BO, but I suspect he was lying there.

So know I have a long shower and scrub hard and long. And no yellow water gets left in our toilets now. Flush, and flush some more.

So folks, by all means conserve water. It is a noble thing to do.
But please dont sit near me or invite me to your house, even if YOU cant smell it, or your friends dont have the heart to tell you.

policarp · 26-06-2011 1:23pm

Fremen wrote: »

Why would you need to conserve water anyway? It's Ireland. Fresh water's hardly in short supply.

I'm told the resevoirs are low and in need of a few weeks rain.

galwayrush · 26-06-2011 1:25pm

Pissing into a bucket and throwing it over the neighbour's fence would save a few flushes.
Every little helps.

26-06-2011 1:26pm

policarp wrote: »

"If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."

In an extreme situation it's ok, eg. water supply shortages, but personally I think that's taking it a bit too far. I was invited to stay at a place that has this motto and I had to refuse. I didn't tell them, but it was because of the toilet situation. I mean, if I don't flush, everyone gets to see my urine. If I do flush, everyone knows I was pooing. Plus the hygiene considerations. Firstly splashes, which will be of multiple people's stagnant urine. Secondly, the smell, which is totally withstandable in a festival or temporary situation, but which is certainly not something you want to smell in your house on a daily basis.

Put a brick in your cistern, or occasionally flush with rainwater, but leaving urine to "mellow" in your bathroom is just unnecessary.

krudler · 26-06-2011 1:27pm

policarp wrote: »

I'm told the resevoirs are low and in need of a few weeks rain.

its been bucketing down all week in most places

Einhard · 26-06-2011 1:29pm

Fremen wrote: »

Not using garden sprinklers or hoses, and buying and using a dishwasher (properly) would be much more effective.

Why would you need to conserve water anyway? It's Ireland. Fresh water's hardly in short supply.

Fresh clean water is though.

Bens · 26-06-2011 1:30pm

true-or-false wrote: »

In an extreme situation it's ok, eg. water supply shortages, but personally I think that's taking it a bit too far. I was invited to stay at a place that has this motto and I had to refuse. I didn't tell them, but it was because of the toilet situation. I mean, if I don't flush, everyone gets to see my urine. If I do flush, everyone knows I was pooing. Plus the hygiene considerations. Firstly splashes, which will be of multiple people's stagnant urine. Secondly, the smell, which is totally withstandable in a festival or temporary situation, but which is certainly not something you want to smell in your house on a daily basis.

Put a brick in your cistern, or occasionally flush with rainwater, but leaving urine to "mellow" in your bathroom is just unnecessary.

Problem is you cant smell it in your own house. You get used to the smell. Only visitors can smell it.
Its like someone with BO cant smell it themselves, but by god others can smell it.
Never thought of the plop and splash ... ick

On the bright side though. At least your friends can tell you are conserving water - by the smell in your house

Celly Smunt · 26-06-2011 1:32pm

i use more than anybody should,on principle.

pow wow · 26-06-2011 1:32pm

If your house wreaks of pee because you miss every other flush I'd go see a doctor. Or lay off the asparagus.

ejmaztec · 26-06-2011 1:33pm

Oranage2 wrote: »

just sh!t and p!ss out the back.

...of your neighbour's house.

Bens · 26-06-2011 1:33pm

pow wow wrote: »

If your house wreaks of pee because you miss every other flush I'd go see a doctor. Or lay off the asparagus.

You wont know your own house wreaks of pee, so it wont have any effect on you. Just on your visitors.
Must be a lot of non flushers I visit eating too much asparagus from what i can see smell.

pow wow · 26-06-2011 1:37pm

If I know when I've eaten too much asparagus I'm pretty sure your 'friends' know their house wreaks of wee-wee. Choosing to ignore the smell is a whole other AH thread

Ditch · 26-06-2011 2:11pm

I still use the traditional Polish style loo built over the ditch on the boundary of my land. Hence my handle ~ shortened from " Ditch shitter "

And tissue paper goes into a paper bag. When that's full, I set light to it.

Mike 1972 · 26-06-2011 2:13pm

true-or-false wrote: »

If I do flush, everyone knows I was pooing.

Most of us do from time to time. Its not some big secret you need to keep from the world or anything

BASHIR · 26-06-2011 2:16pm

policarp wrote: »

Was talking about water conservation last night and someone came up with the slogan that they had heard years ago, about when to flush the loo. "If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."
Would AHers agree or is there better ways to save water?

eeeww,

Use an old plastic milk carton fill with water and put in your toilet cistern, takes less water to fill it after every flush

ImpossibleDuck · 26-06-2011 2:22pm

http://holykaw.alltop.com/sink-forces-choice-conserve-water-or-kill-you

Water conservation = sorted.

yupyup7up · 26-06-2011 3:06pm

blast everything with piss!

squod · 26-06-2011 3:13pm

Stupid college boys will have Dublin smelling like Barcelona in a few years. Fuhk off college boys, bigger dams > water conservation.

Yahew · 26-06-2011 4:18pm

Except in cases where there are actual water shortages i.e. announced by the Government there is no need for any of this.

OutlawPete · 26-06-2011 4:27pm

I do a few things like: when I have a bath I bring the dishes in with me and do them too. I boil eggs in the kettle as I'm making tea and I strap my laundry to the car before hitting the car wash.

Biggins · 26-06-2011 4:29pm

OutlawPete wrote: »

I do a few things like: when I have a bath I bring the dishes in with me and do them too. I boil eggs in the kettle as I'm making tea and I strap my laundry to the car before hitting the car wash.

Hate to see how you take a shower! :eek:
Backyard when raining and with the soap out?

Yahew · 26-06-2011 4:31pm

I wash in puddles. Once a week I shower by standing beside puddles on the edge of busy roads.

Turpentine · 26-06-2011 5:11pm

All these calls for water conservation in Ireland really get my back up. It highlights what a joke our infrastructure is. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe water should be wantonly wasted, but it's ridiculous.

A few days of sunshine: "We have to conserve water, our reservoirs are low"

A few days of snow: "We have to conserve water so we're shutting off supply after 7pm."

It rains for most of the bloody year here.

If money had been spent on fixing the crappy leaking supply pipes during the boom years instead of things like useless e-vote bingo machines, there wouldn't be as much of a problem.

Yahew · 26-06-2011 5:19pm

Still though, users should pay i.e. metered payments.

galwayrush · 26-06-2011 5:22pm

Yahew wrote: »

Still though, users should pay i.e. metered payments.

A lot of us have laready paid large connection fees for an often crappy service. Now we maintain the same service but have the pleasure of paying a stealth tax for it. ,

mattjack · 26-06-2011 5:29pm

OutlawPete wrote: »

I do a few things like: when I have a bath I bring the dishes in with me and do them too. I boil eggs in the kettle as I'm making tea and I strap my laundry to the car before hitting the car wash.

I wash all clothes in the dishwasher ...but I,ve a friend who recently announced he would be pissing and ****ting outside Government Buildings from now on...his reasoning being the Govt shat on him for years.

Yahew · 26-06-2011 5:32pm

galwayrush wrote: »

A lot of us have laready paid large connection fees for an often crappy service. Now we maintain the same service but have the pleasure of paying a stealth tax for it. ,

Its not a stealth tax - its a metered payment. Whats "stealth" about it. You get a bill, you pay the bill.

YFlyer · 26-06-2011 5:32pm

Bens wrote: »

So know I have a long shower and scrub hard and long. And no yellow water gets left in our toilets now. Flush, and flush some more.

One flush is more then enough to remove the yellow. No need to flush a second time.

No need to flush before you use the toilet if there is nothing in the bowl.

My name is URL · 26-06-2011 5:35pm

Bens wrote: »

So folks, by all means conserve water. It is a noble thing to do.
But please dont sit near me or invite me to your house

Deal!

galwayrush · 26-06-2011 5:36pm

Yahew wrote: »

Its not a stealth tax - its a metered payment. Whats "stealth" about it. You get a bill, you pay the bill.

No, it is a stealth tax, I have already paid a lot of money for my water supply, now i have to pay again through an annual stealth tax.

mikom · 26-06-2011 6:24pm

policarp wrote: »

"If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it

That's exactly my take on race relations............

mikemac · 26-06-2011 6:49pm

galwayrush wrote: »

No, it is a stealth tax, I have already paid a lot of money for my water supply, now i have to pay again through an annual stealth tax.

So you have your own well?
We do too and from reading politics forum we are exempt.

I mean why would someone who installs, services and power their own pump pay money to the council??

The council will be seeing a shotgun if they stroll in looking to install a meter

NoHornJan · 26-06-2011 11:39pm

policarp wrote: »

"If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."
QUOTE]

Don't let the poo stew.
But on a half serious note.
Water will be the next currency...

Son Of A Vidic · 26-06-2011 11:48pm

policarp wrote: »

I'm told the resevoirs are low and in need of a few weeks rain.

Are we expected to believe our annual rainfall is decreasing? Fúck that's a laugh.

RichieC · 26-06-2011 11:58pm

true-or-false wrote: »

I mean, if I don't flush, everyone gets to see my urine.

this bothers you?

I'll be foocked meself rather than leave stale piss in the shi*ter, but that's the last of my problems with it.

NoHornJan · 27-06-2011 12:18am

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Are we expected to believe our annual rainfall is decreasing? Fúck that's a laugh.

Water has to be treated before it's delivered to your tap.
Then it has to be treated before it's pumped into the sea.
It's a very expensive process and your'e paying for it.
So who should be laughing?

starbelgrade · 27-06-2011 12:37am

I've a rainwater harvester connected to the downpipes from the roof. Instead of the rainwater from the roof going down the storm drains, it collects in a plastic container which I can use for watering the garden.

It's a great idea & costs less than €50 to buy & install.

The only trouble is, that this summer - being so wet - it's full & I've feck all use for it.

policarp · 27-06-2011 1:08am

starbelgrade wrote: »

I've a rainwater harvester connected to the downpipes from the roof. Instead of the rainwater from the roof going down the storm drains, it collects in a plastic container which I can use for watering the garden.

It's a great idea & costs less than €50 to buy & install.

The only trouble is, that this summer - being so wet - it's full & I've feck all use for it.

In a few years time you mightened be so self sufficient when all your water is polluted with acid rain.

Daegerty · 27-06-2011 2:34am

policarp wrote: »

In a few years time you mightened be so self sufficient when all your water is polluted with acid rain.

Pollution is on the way down and acid rain doesn't limit itself self sufficient rainwater harvesting systems. Even if it has a PH of 2 it will do for flushing away your sh1te in the jax

The Scientician · 27-06-2011 2:47am

Just piss in the sink or on the herbs in the back garden. Or if you live in an apartment, out the window.

These are primarily male solutions.

Fix drippy taps

Get a water butt for your garden, with a butt pump.

policarp · 27-06-2011 3:22am

Daegerty wrote: »

Pollution is on the way down and acid rain doesn't limit itself self sufficient rainwater harvesting systems. Even if it has a PH of 2 it will do for flushing away your sh1te in the jax

If you're living in an urban area the water piped to your house has to be treated.
See the trouble the Clare and Galway Co.Cos. got into last year.

Overheal · 27-06-2011 3:35am

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Are we expected to believe our annual rainfall is decreasing? Fúck that's a laugh.

Annual. Think a little more immediate. Droughts and shortfalls can still occur in areas that receive high annual rainfall. That's why Florida is experiencing massive wildfires right now, even though they do get a ridiculous amount of rain every year: 50-60 inches. Ireland actually averages only about 40 inches per year. Though Florida Averages about 100-110 wet days every year. Ireland averages 150-225 days per year.

Turpentine · 27-06-2011 3:53am

The Scientician wrote: »

Just piss in the sink or on the herbs in the back garden. Or if you live in an apartment, out the window.

These are primarily male solutions.

Fix drippy taps

Get a water butt for your garden, with a butt pump.

Must...resist....urge...to post "Carry-On" style response...

mick_jt · 27-06-2011 4:54am

Water conservation.......... better drink my own p!ss.

The Scientician · 27-06-2011 4:58am

mick_jt wrote: »

Water conservation.......... better drink my own p!ss.

Don't go all Bear Grylls on us.

Conserving water.

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