RO waste water what do you do with it?

[hkgar]

In all serious if you let it go down the drain think of the waste.

Take care of mother earth.

Nope Wisconsin.

I put the waste water drain right in my washing machine. When filled I do a load of laundry. 60 gallons for wash and rinse that would have gone down the drain. See my point? Agreed the toliet thing is extreme but just saying.

What waste? Water waste is the most idiotic of all the environmentalists claims of doom and destruction.

Down the drain, to a sewage treatment facility and back into the river or lake and once again available for use You can't deplete water, at least not by pouring it down the drain.

 

[Rhodesholar]

What waste? Water waste is the most idiotic of all the environmentalists claims of doom and destruction.

Down the drain, to a sewage treatment facility and back into the river or lake and once again available for use You can't deplete water, at least not by pouring it down the drain.

You make a good point but I am coming at this from a totally different angle. I don't live in a city. I have my own well and septic. Every time I use water my pump has to run which uses electricity and costs me. All the water if it were to go down my drain has to get pumped out by my sump. All that water goes out to my septic and then out to my drain field where mother nature deals with it.

But you do make an excellent point for the water reclamation systems. Like I said a little different for me but your angle is well taken.

 

[jfeva0049]

You make a good point but I am coming at this from a totally different angle. I don't live in a city. I have my own well and septic. Every time I use water my pump has to run which uses electricity and costs me. All the water if it were to go down my drain has to get pumped out by my sump. All that water goes out to my septic and then out to my drain field where mother nature deals with it.

But you do make an excellent point for the water reclamation systems. Like I said a little different for me but your angle is well taken.

i think you are doing a good thing. i would be willing to bet that way of thinking has served you well in many other aspects of life.

cheers

 

[bertoni]

]Down the drain, to a sewage treatment facility and back into the river or lake and once again available for use

Waste water flows in San Francisco Bay in my area. It takes a lot more to get fresh water back once it's mixed into the ocean.

 

[hkgar]

Waste water flows in San Francisco Bay in my area. It takes a lot more to get fresh water back once it's mixed into the ocean.

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Actually it is a pretty simple process. Evaporation, westerly winds, and rain return it.
Otherwise with all those rivers rushing water from the heartland to the oceans would soon deplete all of our fresh water.

 

[hkgar]

All the water if it were to go down my drain has to get pumped out by my sump. All that water goes out to my septic and then out to my drain field where mother nature deals with it.

Water going down your train gets pumped by your sump? I thought a sump, other than the aquarium sump, collects ground water from around the foundation and pumps it out away from the house to prevented it from getting in the basement.
Your drain should go directly to the septic where it flows through the drain field and back to nature's ground water table.3

I also have a well but do have a city sewer system. The cost of running a well pump is typically less than the cost paid for city water and sewer system. The average family pays $70 a month for public water. This amount is based on the average person using between 80 and 100 gallons of water per day.

 

[Rhodesholar]

To clarify only my basement sink and washer drain into my sump. Everything else does drain directly out to my septic and then to the drain field. My RO unit is located in this area thus why it's easy for me to direct the waste water to my washer or to my rejection collection brute barrel.

Every time I need to use water my well pump has to run so by not wasting the rejection water I save electricity and thus money. Every time water goes out to the septic that pump has to run. Look, I am not destitute I can pay my electric bill.

To me it's just the right thing to do.

 

[bertoni]

Actually it is a pretty simple process. Evaporation, westerly winds, and rain return it.

In some sense, simple, maybe, but discarding water down the drain doesn't increase precipitation, and where I live in CA we often face drought conditions and restrictions, so I try not to waste fresh water.