In article , Capetanios Oz
wrote:

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:24:47 -0500, DSK
wrote:

Capetanios Oz wrote:
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BTW we are on strict water restrictions here, no washing of
cars/boats/hard surfaces, no garden sprinklers etc.
Our consumption has risen with drought and expansion of the population
so storage just can't cope.
Much talk on reuse of grey water, recycling of black water with a turn
around of around 2 years before it reaches our taps again,
And desalination though the consensus is that it uses way to much
energy to be practical.

Will be interesting to see what eventuates.
I'm renovating a bathroom used by my kids and am having the pipework
from theit shower and bath run into a tank for reuse flushing toilets,
watering gardens and maybe washing cars/boats.
Will be interesting to see how it works.

I fail to see the problem. Yeah, Sydney is running short of water but
there is far too much water wasted. Having owned a rural property in
NSW for 20 years and provided all my own water storage, I've been water
conscious all along. I put in a dual system (dam water for
gardens/toilets, potable water for kitchen/washing) back in 1983.
Sydney people are finally starting to face reality.

My new place in Tasmania has some 60,000 litres of storage for potable
water (full right now) plus 2 dams for general watering.

It's going to be real amusing in the years to come. Please don't send
more people this way, though. Prices have gone up and lots of building
is happening all over the place. Next week I pour the slab for my
precision machine shop and finding a concretor is difficult due to the
building boom.

Peter Wiley