Sisterlimonpot
Premium Member
Sure, I could save water by not flushing it for 20/30 seconds"¦. But considering how much water is wasted anyway in the process of making RO in the grand scheme this really doesn't make a huge difference.
Some RO systems (very few) produce on a 1:1 ratio but most are a lot worse maybe a 4:1. Even with very efficient systems you are still wasting the same amount of what you produce.
My RO Top Off runs on average 4 times a day so each 30 second flush uses .026 gallons each time. I live in Florida... It rains a lot here. So I can live with it. :beer:
One thing that never caught on and I wonder why, was the stand alone DI chambers. No RO, No wastewater, just slowly push tap through filters and the end result is 0 TDS.
Maybe it was to cost of anion and cation, or the process in which you had to recharge them... hmm.
Here in AZ water in a commodity, i try to conserve what I can.