On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:39:01 GMT, wrote:

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:29:07 -0700, "xrongor"
wrote:

zero?

low flow is considered 2-2.5 gallons a minute.

take that 2 gallons, guess how long for each shower, multiply it by the
number of showers in a month (estimate) and see how much of your water
consumption is showering. my guess: this isnt the problem.

bigger worries: leaky faucets. lots of laundry. toilets that take 3
gallons a flush.


Taking shorter showers can make a huge difference!

BB

Yes, it does. We are trying to unload the amount the leach field has
to dispose of each day to reduce the number of times we get the septic
pumped at $460 each. Had to do it 3 times since August. It isn't
just domestic water use, but heavy rains that saturate the leach
field. Can't do much about the weather, but can reduce the amount of
water we put in it. If we have two showers each day at our
2-gallon/min flow rate, that's 60 gallons, or 40% of our daily water
use. Eight flushes of two toilets at 3-1/2 gal/per is 56 gallons.
That's nearly 80% of our total. The rest being drinking water, dish
washer and clothes washer.

I have on order two Toto UltraMax toilets which will help on that
side. If we can limit our showers to 5-minutes each, that should help
there. We already have a front-load Maytag which is very conservative
of water use. We can try to stretch out our dishwasher use. That's
about all we can do without getting ridiculous. I am also looking
into a gray water system, but the requirements here are very
restrictive, and don't know if I want to deal with the red tape.

Not trying to save water. Trying to save our septic system.

Dick