Re:Forget Shorter Showers
by ars on Sunday July 12, 2009 @05:29PM
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As a complete aside - if you are an on public sewer, run that shower as long as you like.
Showers don't waste any water at all, it all gets reused.
It's little known that water that people use gets recycled many many time in its journey to the ocean.
Big city in the north pulls water from a river, uses it, down the sewer, and puts it right back into the river. Next city down the river does the same, and over and over for each city down the entire river's length.
The problems are cities like atlanta which have mostly septic systems. And watering lawns.
But using water in showers or washing machines doesn't waste it at all.
Showers don't waste any water at all, it all gets reused.
It's little known that water that people use gets recycled many many time in its journey to the ocean.
Big city in the north pulls water from a river, uses it, down the sewer, and puts it right back into the river. Next city down the river does the same, and over and over for each city down the entire river's length.
The problems are cities like atlanta which have mostly septic systems. And watering lawns.
But using water in showers or washing machines doesn't waste it at all.
Next green movement: down with septic systems!