CT sewerage system in die ***...

You can't use sea water at all. Its corrosive so it will ruin your plumbing/sewers and it also kills the bacteria the sewerage plants need.
 
Dave said:
You do know it’s fairly easy to clean river water? in fact it’s what they do to the water coming out of your taps...

If all these rivers and boreholes exist in CT (so widely available that everyone has one) why are they bothering with super-expensive, energy intensive desalination plants? It would be simpler to pump water from all these rivers to the water treatment plants.
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It's not that cheap for individuals to clean wellpoint water to make it drinkable or usable for laundry (unless you want all your clothing brown/black and smelling of rotten eggs). Cape Town is busy now drilling to tap into the underground water sources (it would be pointless, and much more complicated, trying to suck water out of every little stream instead).
 
noxibox said:
It's not that cheap for individuals to clean wellpoint water to make it drinkable or usable for laundry (unless you want all your clothing brown/black and smelling of rotten eggs). Cape Town is busy now drilling to tap into the underground water sources (it would be pointless, and much more complicated, trying to suck water out of every little stream instead).
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Have you told the millions of offgridders in the US that use wells/boreholes as their exclusive water source?

With a very quick search, here’s an example of an affordable filter system for borehole/well water.

6 Stage Ultra Violet Reverse Osmosis water filter system

By the way, the majority of the post you quoted was sarcasm, unless you’re like nerfherder and also think every house in CT has either it’s own river or borehole?
 
Dave said:
Have you told the millions of offgridders in the US that use wells/boreholes as their exclusive water source?

With a very quick search, here’s an example of an affordable filter system for borehole/well water.

6 Stage Ultra Violet Reverse Osmosis water filter system

By the way, the majority of the post you quoted was sarcasm, unless you’re like nerfherder and also think every house in CT has either it’s own river or borehole?
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That is a relatively small RO system, what you'd install in a kitchen countertop system. If you want more than drinking water (e.g, laundry, or shower), then you're gonna pay a lot.

https://www.aquatell.com/pages/how-much-do-whole-home-reverse-osmosis-systems-cost
 
Valerion said:
That is a relatively small RO system, what you'd install in a kitchen countertop system. If you want more than drinking water (e.g, laundry, or shower), then you're gonna pay a lot.

https://www.aquatell.com/pages/how-much-do-whole-home-reverse-osmosis-systems-cost
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It shows that you can have drinking water at a reasonable cost if you have a river or borehole in your garden, but until Nerfherder produces links to show that every house in CT has either a borehole or private river it’s all pretty immaterial.


PS

1500l per day for GBP500


And just a reminder to the backstory of posts before my post you’ve answered.


Nerfherder said:
Most people will still be flushing though... even if its with river/borehole water.
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Dave said:
If everyone has a river or borehole why is there a water problem?
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Nerfherder said:
Because we can't drink that water.
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Dave said:
Have you told the millions of offgridders in the US that use wells/boreholes as their exclusive water source?

With a very quick search, here’s an example of an affordable filter system for borehole/well water.

6 Stage Ultra Violet Reverse Osmosis water filter system

By the way, the majority of the post you quoted was sarcasm, unless you’re like nerfherder and also think every house in CT has either it’s own river or borehole?
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I did not claim it was impossible. You're also out of touch if you think that £300 is not expensive for many people. Just because someone scraped the money to tap into ground water doesn't mean they have further money to pay for purifying the water. I don't believe anyone claimed everyone has a borehole or their own river. There are however many people who do and in many neighbourhoods people could share their use now to alleviate water demand.

Valerion said:
That is a relatively small RO system, what you'd install in a kitchen countertop system. If you want more than drinking water (e.g, laundry, or shower), then you're gonna pay a lot.

https://www.aquatell.com/pages/how-much-do-whole-home-reverse-osmosis-systems-cost
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From what I hear they're quoting more in the region of R30,000 for the purification system that would be suitable for a small house in South Africa, so perhaps the above is for something even more extensive. Then of course there are the ongoing running costs.

Dave said:
And just a reminder to the backstory of posts before my post you’ve answered.
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Thanks for posting the proof that no-one said what you claim.
 
noxibox said:
I did not claim it was impossible. You're also out of touch if you think that £300 is not expensive for many people.
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Andy yet people are spending five times that amount buying water from air machines that will only supply 15-20l per day.

noxibox said:
Thanks for posting the proof that no-one said what you claim.
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My condolences on the disappearance of your intellect, have you put up LOST posters?

The entire chain of posts began with the assertion by Nerfherder that people couldn’t have drinking water from rivers or boreholes, which is exactly what I disproved, it’s fairly easy to filter water from a borehole for drinking water (at last count around 45 million Americans do that every day as their exclusive source of water).

Let’s try again, I know it’s a little bit more difficult than “See Spot Run” but if you try really really hard...


Dave said:
If everyone has a river or borehole why is there a water problem?
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Nerfherder said:
Because we can't drink that water.
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The answer is, yes, you can drink that water...
 
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If there is no water in the pipes/taps, they might as well pump the infrastructure full of sea water, just for toilet use. Straight out of the sea, cheap-cheap. At least you can **** in piece. There is lots of places in the world where tap water isn't drinkable water, so it won't be strange. Could also boil sea water and use it to wash dishes.

Wonder what the dangers is for e-coli outbreak....
 
Noxibox & Nerfherder have no clue what they are talking about.

For example here in Jozi, in Kyalami & Beaulieu we run almost exclusively off boreholes. Some properties have piped municipal where they've sub-divided down to 1 hectare, but the vast majority run off boreholes.

We have our water tested annually - our water is 100% fine for drinking, cooking & laundry.

That's not to say that ALL borehole water is fit for consumption, but it's certainly not true that it is not fit for human consumption!
 
beans100 said:
If there is no water in the pipes/taps, they might as well pump the infrastructure full of sea water, just for toilet use. Straight out of the sea, cheap-cheap. At least you can **** in piece. There is lots of places in the world where tap water isn't drinkable water, so it won't be strange. Could also boil sea water and use it to wash dishes.

Wonder what the dangers is for e-coli outbreak....
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You can't use seawater in the loo it messes up the pipes and kills the bacteria in the water treatment plant dead!
 
The potential problem with everyone digging latrine pits / long drops is potential groundwater contamination. If groundwater becomes all we have left do we really want to risk contaminating it with seepage from these things.
 
Trompie67 said:
Noxibox & Nerfherder have no clue what they are talking about.

For example here in Jozi, in Kyalami & Beaulieu we run almost exclusively off boreholes. Some properties have piped municipal where they've sub-divided down to 1 hectare, but the vast majority run off boreholes.

We have our water tested annually - our water is 100% fine for drinking, cooking & laundry.

That's not to say that ALL borehole water is fit for consumption, but it's certainly not true that it is not fit for human consumption!
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Considering their apparent inability to actually read, that’s not all that surprising ;)
 
I've just realised that we have tankless toilets. Man, this is going to be fun :o
 
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