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Re:EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water by r00fus on Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:36PM (#40007077)
Anyone considered just sending the brine to the yard as gray water?
Re:EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water by jonhohle on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:31PM (#40009145)
Premiere H2O has a system that dumped the water into the hot water line, similar to a hot water loop, but in reverse. There’s a lot of caveats with that arrangement (doesn’t really work with a tankless water heater, for example).
Re:EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water by r00fus on Thursday April 11, 2024 @11:34PM (#40009160)
Wait, they push the waste/brine into the hot water line? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of filtration?

I was thinking more of using it typical gray water usage like watering plants.

Re:EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water by tacitusarc on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:49AM (#40009488)
I imagine despite the term brine it is still incredibly clean water
Re:EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water by formerly_proven on Friday April 12, 2024 @05:06AM (#40010684)
> Wait, they push the waste/brine into the hot water line? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of filtration?

Hot water is for external use only.

Re:EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water by evancox100 on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:34PM (#40014811)
... you’ve never used hot water to fill up, say, a pot of water for cooking?
Re:EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water by TsiCClawOfLight on Saturday April 13, 2024 @03:53AM (#40021329)
it's gross. Don't do that.
Re:EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water by soperj on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:36PM (#40014831)
You still absorb an astounding amount of chemicals through your skin.
Re:EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water by infecto on Friday April 12, 2024 @07:47AM (#40011482)
When you say brine is that in seawater desalination RO or are you using that to include non-seawater RO reject water?

You could definitely use it as gray water but if you are filtering for contaminants, that water would have a higher concentration and if you were pushing it out as gray water, would those areas of the yard have higher levels potentially of contaminants?