Waste water???

[ziggy2]

Ok, What does everyone do with the waste water from your RO/DI system?

 

[BigDave]

topping off my swimming pool and watering potted plants.

 

[hkgar]

down the drain

 

[scooter31707]

sometimes down the drain and sometimes use it in the washing machine to wash couple loads of clothes.

 

[Shawn O]

Depending on how good or bad your incoming water is, you may even be able to drink it, though I wouldn't try. If your water isn't that bad to start, it's not going to be much worse as waste water. Some folks water their gardens, some use it washing their laundry. If it's 2-1 (2 gals waste for every 1 gal RODI produced) It's should have about 1.5x the original concentration of contaminants, or, half of the total contaminants of the three original gallons of water, less the stuff permanently trapped in your filters. You could easily wash your dishes with it and rinse them with tap water, probably even bathe with it, unless your tap water is so bad that it's borderline unsafe to drink to begin with.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Top off our pond, water the lawn. It helps a lot if you upgrade to a 1:1 unit.

 

[DePinchGonze]

Water the garden, that's about it. Water is about the cheapest part of this hobby.

 

[JMorris271]

carry buckets to water plants and thank god we can now because we are having a drought.

 

[kelp47]

My RODI is right next to my washing machine, so I just run the waste line into it. I also use some to water inside plants. I actually waste very little water.

 

[Jon0807]

Washing machine, washing cars/motorcycle, watering lawn/plants, sometimes flushing the toilet if I happen to feel like lugging another bucket of water up the stairs. Being in California, I try to preserve every drop possible but sometimes I produce too much waste water and it has to go down the drain. I'm hoping to upgrade my RO/DI unit so it'll produce less waste.

 

[Ron Reefman]

I set up a 300g cistern next to our washing machine in the garage and I use it to do the laundry. With all the RO/DI I make, it saves us about $30/mth.

 

[Rubasu]

Wow... I never thought of putting it into my washing machine... I make my rodi right next to it, too. Thanks!

 

[thegrun]

I have a storage container outside that the waste water drains into and I use the water to water our patio plants.

 

[ziggy2]

Mine is right next to the washer also. Perfect. It just bothered me to have all that water go down the drain. Especially when I got the bills.

 

[hbash]

There is an add-on that you can use to double the RO output of your RO System. Basically it adds a second membrane to your system and wastes much less water.

By the way, I found a new blog that may be of interest for the new hobbyist and thought I'd share it. It looks like the writer has a good way to express aquarium issues and stories.
http://www.aquariumnook.com

 

[vikinglord13]

Aaaaaanndd there's this thread.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2569425

 

[CStrickland]

I don't really use it because I don't have space to store it in my apartment. But I drink and cook with it if I need water while it's running. A lot of people think it's "dirtier" that tap water but that's not quite true. The waste water has been filtered of sediment, and passed a carbon filter. That's the same thing that happens to water that goes through a Brita filter. In a sense it's cleaner than the tap water, and it is dechlorinated. it's higher in the stuff that the membrane removes, of course, but depending on what that is in a certain area, it's not necessarily harmful.