How much water do you use?

rog163 said:
Does this include filtration to use water in the house?
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Yeah.

The filtration unit is outside. Everything gets filtered before it gets pumped to the various lines. I do sometimes prefer a little cloudy unfiltered water for the nice minerals and bacteria.
 
Aghori said:
Yeah.

The filtration unit is outside. Everything gets filtered before it gets pumped to the various lines. I do sometimes prefer a little cloudy unfiltered water for the nice minerals and bacteria.
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U are used to "nehar ka pani"
 
2 adults 1 teen 1 child, varies from 7-10kl depending on washing. Judging from this thread I should be taking more showers.
 
neoprema said:
Can I get an idea of how many KL of Water you're billed-for by your municipality per MONTH. If possible please indicate how many in the household. Currently we're 4 adults in a large house with a pool. Our usage is 61KL per month. Is that considered high?
Since we came from a complex I never really got to see usage.
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On a high month - we get to 10KL. Still not sure why its so high. Mainly use municipal water for bathing/showering and toilet. Our Drinking/Cooking water is bought. Washing/Laundry and irrigation is wellpoint. Any other use - wellpoint i.e. washing of cars etc.
 
Pineapple Smurf said:
Thats nuts
I also live in a complex and luckily no one abuses the water that I am aware of. But I have brought it up at every AGM that we must install water meters to all units so that we can monitor each flats usage. People that rent here just love watering the garden especially when there is rain coming that night. Idiots
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I know it's crazy. Lucky for me I'm just renting so I'm out of here very soon. This past weekend I saw people washing their cars and leave the hosepipe running. It's against the complex and estate rules but no one cares it seems because the people that is supposed to enforce these rules also do it.
 
cavedog said:
I know it's crazy. Lucky for me I'm just renting so I'm out of here very soon. This past weekend I saw people washing their cars and leave the hosepipe running. It's against the complex and estate rules but no one cares it seems because the people that is supposed to enforce these rules also do it.
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In Cape Town since 4 October 2019 there is a new municipal by-law that every sectional title complex has to have a separate private meter installed for each unit in the complex precisely to avoid these kinds of issues. I'm surprised other metros and municipalities haven't done this.
 
It must be the sprinkler system. Water has been idling at around 24-30KL per month.

We started watering again end of August, and also ran the sprinklers more and my bill came today for 69KL....

Considering the sprinklers need so much power that there's actually a transfer valve from the MAIN water in-take after the meter into our sprinkler system, i imagine it just uses a crap-load of water. There's 5 zones and we run them at 30mins each.
 
neoprema said:
Can I get an idea of how many KL of Water you're billed-for by your municipality per MONTH. If possible please indicate how many in the household. Currently we're 4 adults in a large house with a pool. Our usage is 61KL per month. Is that considered high?
Since we came from a complex I never really got to see usage.
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Thanks for asking. Just printed my latest invoice.
2 Adults 2 Kids. 16Kl last month.
 
About 10kl a month on average over the past year. 2 adults but for 4 months we had 4 adults and a kid.
 
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Don't underestimate how much water irrigation systems use. We use 10-18kl depending on time of year, a month, big garden and pool, never use irrigation except peak summer when my grass gets crispy, luckily everything else is indigenous. Too high up to make drilling 150m down for a borehole worth while.

Irrigation chows around 30L per min in my house, obviously depends on pressure and outlet size and pipe size etc.
 
neoprema said:
It must be the sprinkler system. Water has been idling at around 24-30KL per month.

We started watering again end of August, and also ran the sprinklers more and my bill came today for 69KL....

Considering the sprinklers need so much power that there's actually a transfer valve from the MAIN water in-take after the meter into our sprinkler system, i imagine it just uses a crap-load of water. There's 5 zones and we run them at 30mins each.
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Yeah mines around 50kl a month. 7 zones 20 min each.
 
We will see later this month, had contractors here and they left a tap not closed properly a few times sigh.
 
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