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Jacobgame2 t1_jee0258 wrote

It might seem wasteful but it's generally more resource efficient to use fresh water. Pumping dirty water to every house would require a second set of piping to EVERY house in the UK which is already resource intensive. Then if that pipe leaked it could contaminate the clean water which will cause all that clean water to have to be thrown away. Additionally people could get sick and die from the contaminated clean water which is also resource intensive to treat.

Less of a resource issue and more of a quality of life issue. Dirty water smells if left stagnant.

So really our use of clean water for everything instead of having many different grades of water for different applications is a streamlining of the process so everything is simpler, safer and we can utilise the economy of scale.

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Valhallabbq t1_jee843u wrote

Being on reddit

Some OP/comment: "Doing such and such could save environment or something something and is smart!" Provides reasonably well made arguments

Random comment: "Actually, doing so and so would be worse for this and that." Provides some counter-arguments that makes sense in some areas of the globe

Third comment: Types furiously "ActHuaLLy (...) you donkeys!"

Me: Grabs popcorn

I love this place!

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ApoliteTroll t1_jee8on1 wrote

If you want a post answered you need two accounts, one for making the post itself, and one for answering the post wrongfully but with the grasp you have. Someone will come right in and educate your comment that is wrong.

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Jacobgame2 t1_jeeaawn wrote

Programmers have been doing this strat for years to get answers on stack overflow

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Valhallabbq t1_jee8x0z wrote

Perfect! Username checks out.

Inb4 being replied to by user "ImpoliteTroll" lol

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ApoliteTroll t1_jee91l0 wrote

I don't do that.

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Valhallabbq t1_jeebgyl wrote

Oh, that's right. You are a polite troll. I mistook you for a poll-lite troll.

A lite-version troll that trolls with polls... or something. Idk what I am on about right now. Don't listen to me.

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DWright_5 t1_jeef438 wrote

Plus a lot of people will come in and give answers even though they don’t know what they’re talking about. And so the poster probably still doesn’t know the correct answer.

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Jacobgame2 t1_jeeewcy wrote

It's kind of needed to make a shower thought interesting. Otherwise someone says something then there's no comments and that's the end of it

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DWright_5 t1_jeeet6a wrote

True. But that’s not what happened here.

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Valhallabbq t1_jeeg23e wrote

Third comment is me in this case.

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DWright_5 t1_jeeghwx wrote

Neither of the first two comments portrayed what happened here. Especially the first one. OP didn’t provide any reasonably well-made arguments.

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Raichu7 t1_jeemmup wrote

Why would you pump grey water from house to house? That’s insane. A grey water system would just take water from any sinks, showers and baths in the house and pump it to the toilet tank.

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kniebuiging t1_jeelryd wrote

I am aware of two approaches for a less wasteful approach here:

  1. using a rain water cistern for service water
  2. using almost clean secondary water for service water (like from the washing machine).

My father contemplated using (1) in our house when he had it built but was discouraged because instead of only having one water meter in the house he would have had to get a second water meter to measure the amount of water that goes into the sewage (normally its assumed to be the same as the fresh water).

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Bardsie t1_jeeme9c wrote

Why would you need a second meter?

The water bill includes a fee for removal of rain water (at least mine from Yorkshire water does.) The rain water they remove remains the same whether it goes straight to the sewers, or to a cistern/loo and then the sewers.

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kniebuiging t1_jeemmc5 wrote

dunno, its what my dad told me. It was the 90ies in Germany..

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Bardsie t1_jeenauk wrote

Ah, it's entirely possible the rain water and wastewater sewers are separate in Germany. That would explain it.

As you replied to someone who mentioned the UK, I assumed you were in the UK also. Over here most, if not all, rain and waste water goes into the same sewers.

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kniebuiging t1_jeeohso wrote

well I am pretty sure the actual sewage system is the same pipes for rain water and household water.

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Proof-Commission-261 t1_jeebd84 wrote

not if you route the sinks to fill the toilet tanks

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wilderop t1_jeega91 wrote

You would have to regularly clean your toilet tank.

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Lexicon_bonbon t1_jeen5i6 wrote

I believe that a lot of Nevada and Arizona dose that. They have signed about "grey water"

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[deleted] t1_jeeh3i6 wrote

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StormFallen9 t1_jeeljbx wrote

Probably just UK-centric, giving all us Americans here a taste of our own medicine.

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estaritos t1_jeeaq6o wrote

‘In the UK’ tf? Are you the only ones in the west?

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DraxTheHuman t1_jeedc4y wrote

Well, no but I’m assuming they specified where they came from because different countries have different ways of doing things and they only know about their own country.

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