
Flushing toilets with bottled water - Coriolis effect
Flushing toilets using bottled water - who does that?
In times of want, the luxury of flushing a toilet with bottled or high quality drinking water is deemed highly extravagant and very wasteful. It is the insulting liquid equivalent of "let them eat cake". With the prolonged drought in Cape Town, most non-cake eating citizens are using alternative water sources for flushing their toilets. The low hanging fruit is abstinence during the mellow stage. Thereafter some sort of big gun is required and this comes in various forms, including shower water, rain water, well-point water, bore-hole water or treated water. Whatever the source, the emergent zeitgeist is - use your water twice . And it is surprisingly easy. For a home, alternative water treatment and pressure recycling to the toilets is not rocket science and not hideously expensive. The cost saving won't pay for the exercise in a hurry, but the satisfaction gleaned in significantly lowering monthly water consumption is palpable. By using water twice, flushing toilets using bottled water is completely unnecessary. The procedures involved in using water twice, include- collection of the alternative water source
- some form of treatment, the extent and sophistication will be dependent on the source
- a booster pump with pressure and flow control
- plumbing from the booster pump to the toilets