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Old 09-30-11, 08:25 AM   #17
munter
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Our toilets are fed via a pump from our rainwater tanks. We re-plumbed the lines so that cistern filling was done with rainwater while we still use mains water for everything else. Actually we also have the option of washing our clothes in rainwater too. Doing this helped us get our mains water consumption down to less than 150L per day for the whole house.

There's no financial saving in doing this but it does feel better to be using locally sourced water to wash turds instead of precious drinking water. Our sewerage charge is not linked to mains water consumption so there is no cost reduction there either unfortunately.
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