Jeff wrote:
> Some Water Conservation Projects to consider
>
> The ultimate water saver is a composting toilet.
I think the volume of water used in toilets is less than for showers or
tubs (possibly sinks and laundry, too). Of course, here in California, low
flow toilets are manditory, and others are unavailable new. So, I'm
comparing the 1.5 gallon flush to the 15 minute shower, which even at 2
gallons per minute (low flow shower head) is still 30 gallons. With a 6
gallon flush of older toilets and older, regilar flow shower heads the
numbers are different. Anyway, a gray water system would seem to do more
than a composting toilet.
You may be referring to the (illegal here) possibility of having a
compostig toilet and only a grey water system, avoiding the need for a
black water system all together. This would allow more shallow second use
of the water from the home.
I have wondered lately about leach fields; any info appreciates. Are they
really as bad as some say? How unavailable are the nutrients? Don't trees
bring up nutrients from deep in the soil? Doesn't the water percolate back
into the water table? How "clean" is that water? Aren't the mircobs in
the septic tank and the leach field doing most of the work? I don't doubt
that there are other ways (simpler, qucker cycling) to do it, I'm just
wondering how serious the negatives are for a spetic / leach field system.
Eric Storm
