Re:A Washing Machine for Human Beings, from 1970
by eru on Friday November 29, 2024 @02:51AM
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> [...] the easier it is to process the water at your sewage treatment plant, if your waste water is treated.
It's easier to process per litre, but it is easier to process in absolute numbers?
Re:A Washing Machine for Human Beings, from 1970
by toast0 on Friday November 29, 2024 @02:29PM
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Part of processing is often adding clean water; to the extent that you've already done it upstream, the treatment plant can add less.
Re:A Washing Machine for Human Beings, from 1970
by eru on Sunday December 01, 2024 @08:23PM
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Maybe. Though when you add clean water upstream that usually means water clean enough to be fit for drinking (because that what comes out of your tap.)
When they dilute at the treatment plant, they can use somewhat dirtier clean water.
If your waste water isn't treated, and is discharged to water ways as-is, the more water you use, the more dilute your pollution.
If you've got a septic system, I dunno? Probably doesn't help, but if your system is well sized, no big deal? Some of your outflow probably recharges aquifers, so it's kind of circular (although a lot of the outflow evaporates, so less directly circular there)