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Conserving water.

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  • #52
    Walnutcracker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭Walnutcracker


    Anytime there is a shortage and we're asked to consume less i always follow "If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down." I don't see a problem with it. Some people do but oh well.


  • #53
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    The Scientician wrote: »
    with a butt pump.

    To extract the sh1t directly from your arse and storing it in a vat rather than you pushing it out and then using water to flush it away?

    also repeatedly pissing on the same plant can kill it.
    policarp wrote: »
    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.

    Depending on what you use it for. People in Galway were moaning cause the piped water was their only supply.


  • #54
    Forest Master
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Forest Master


    I don't bother at all, TBH. I leave both taps running when shaving (hot tap to rinse razor, and cold to rinse foam off hands), and the cold tap running while brushing my teeth. I put the dishwasher on whenever I feel like it, and I have sprinklers in my garden that come on for an hour every night. I do recycle though - but it has nothing to do with "conservation" - we've loads of water! It falls from the sky all the time.

    I look at it like this: let them sort out the 48% that gets lost through pipe leaks first, then they can preach to me about conserving it.


  • #55
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    i want to know does it actually make sense to be recycling jars and that when you've to use a whole lot of water to wash them... :confused:

    and I know all about conserving water, growing up in my house was like living in a third world country, about 100 days of the year we wouldn't have water :confused::mad: ****ing stupid council. having to buy bottled water all the time, to brush your teeth, not flushing the toilet until it was absolutely necessary, having to go to the swimming pool to pay to have a shower (which was a 20 minute drive away), having days worth of dishes piled up all the time. so it's probably made me very aware of wastage.


  • #56
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭policarp


    stupidusername wrote: »
    i want to know does it actually make sense to be recycling jars and that when you've to use a whole lot of water to wash them... :confused:

    QUOTE]

    I know it's awkward but it's the same as people leaving the water running when they're washing their hands or brushing their teeth,when a basin full or a glass full will do instead. Water is the petrol of the future.


  • #57
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,969 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    On the Pat Kenny show they had a guy from Bord na Mona planning to create a reservoir on their land

    Sending the Shannon water to Dublin

    Edit: The engineer claims Dublin looses under 30% of water to leakage.
    60km of pipes were replaced last year and 140km will be replaced this year
    That's some serious work and investment so they are taking the leakage seriously

    Still listening to the podcast. The local man complaining da Dubs are stealing his water which is needed for the midlands. Thieves :eek:
    This man is hysterical, they're building a Suez Canal across the midlands :D


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