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May 12, 2024

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Some years ago on the New Inventors program a device was presented which reused all the water which was wasted down the gurgler when you turn on the hot water. The initial cold water was diverted to a holding tank which emptied when you next turned on the cold tap. The inventor estimated that between a quarter and a third of household water use was wasted.

I can vouch for this as I bail the first rush of water into a bucket in the bathroom and it amounts to between four to five litres each time.

The system was also able to be retrofitted – why it hasn’t been made compulsory I don’t understand.

David Gilet, Mullumbimby


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8 COMMENTS

  1. More than half the water collected is sold to foreign interests operating in Australia. There is actually plenty more water that could be collected, but the governments won’t allow it for scientifically unsound reasons.

  2. Well christian, like all lefty green ideas, they all eventually fail. They will always try to shite on common sense, however when they kick you in the guts for stinking you will and do take offence and action. It would be a brave council worker in deed that would attempt to put a metre on my tanks I can tell you for certain !

    • Yes obviously something Christian made up – something that has NEVER HAPPENED, must be a lefty green idea omfg!
      Brilliant series of deductions & imagined scenarios there greggy & good to see you never fail to let the truth get in the way of a favourite target. More utter nonsense

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