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Project: Why Waste Water?
Author: Freddie
Date posted: June 22 07 9:26 PM
Date modified: July 24 07 5:44 PM
Comments: 24
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Waste water in baths,showers and wash basins could be recycled by altering the waste pipe to fill a tank/waterbutt instead of going down the drain. Using a charcoal based filter, impurities could be removed and the water then used for car washing, garden watering, pond/pool filling and many other things. If we did this in schools we could then pump the purified water to reuse over and over. My school has an orchard by saving money on water use we could set up an organic fruit and veg garden for the pupils to eat for part of their five a day and water it! we could earn money for the seeds compost etc by using our recycled water to clean parents and staff cars once a week and save energy from garage car washes etc.
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Author: s mckenzie Apr 28 2008 9:27AM
why waste things when you could use them again and agian
Author: neek Jan 28 2008 11:40AM
i think our atmosphere is truly beautiful, i would just like to let all the folks out there realise what we are doing to the poor globe..it hasn't done nuffing to us an all you do is abuse it !
Author: Tuesday Nov 23 2007 9:25AM
I think this project is good becuase we should be able to start seeing if it is actully a good project. Also if you do waste water you can put it in a bucket and recycle your water to the peole who do not have much water like in Africa.
Author: Abi B Nov 23 2007 9:23AM
We already reuse water.
Author: smiths wood Nov 20 2007 9:26AM
I beleve that if we save water everyone will have something to drink
people wast a lot of food every week i agree they should not wast as much food as they do but where can we put our food waste
Author: seemtobeorignal Nov 20 2007 9:25AM
i think that we should stop using water as much as we used to
Author: daniel1612 Sep 27 2007 5:19PM
Author: Go-Green-Gal Sep 13 2007 7:29PM
Also to save water, i read this in a mag: 'Put a brick or a large plastic bottle filled with water in your toilet cistern. Flushing the loo accounts for 30% of household water usage. This could save around 10 million litres a day- enough to supply 60,000 people!!!
Author: lilmizzgogreen Sep 10 2007 7:59PM
Hi i think this is a really good idea
Author: KJMJRR Aug 30 2007 10:35PM
What if the water was used as you said for non-living things like filling toilet bowls and mixing concrete? Stuff like that gets dirty anyway so a little bit of dirt wont matter.
Author: peter281541 Jul 28 2007 5:04PM
great idea and very original
Author: Freddie Jul 24 2007 5:22PM
My original idea to use the charcoal filter was to enable the water to have multi-uses ie human consumption but i wasn't sure how health & safety would view this - I kept it in on my blurb as i was unsure if any detergents, paint, soap or glue etc that may be washed down the plughole might affect the quality of the fruit and veg etc which I would prefer to be organic.
Author: michael2 Jul 19 2007 6:02PM
You don't need a 'charcoal based filter' to filter water to wash the car or water plants. As long as it's reasonably clean, you don't need to filter it!!
Author: Jupp Jul 4 2007 3:23PM
should be gd if schools can be bothered and have the room
Author: xfallenangelx Jul 4 2007 9:50AM
clever i think this happens at my grans house
Author: Shortie8664 Jun 28 2007 12:06PM
dis project sounds kl
Author: AIJEH Jun 28 2007 10:40AM
haha our skl has an orchard too, and we grow aples. But they are like infested with maggots and super sour, so that kinda sucks. Personaly i dnt reali think tht ide like to eat maggots for lunch!!:P
Author: Dan w Jun 28 2007 9:46AM
Cool
Author: Sao273 Jun 27 2007 5:23PM
this looks pretty good
Author: mcila001 Jun 25 2007 11:54AM
turn off the tap!!
Author: .x.___Dani&&Frankii___.x. Jun 25 2007 11:50AM
I think this project is`really informative, I would like to thank you on behalf of Danni and Frankii =] If you would to continue this discussion on 'Why waste water?' Please feel free to IM us any time =D xxx
Author: piggyumpire Jun 23 2007 10:09AM
this project is really good it will also keep everyone healthy
Author: Freddie Jun 22 2007 9:28PM
I think this project will be really good to do and it would help save money as well
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