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Conserving water.

policarp

Was talking about water conservation last night and someone came up with the slogan that they had heard years ago, about when to flush the loo. "If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."
Would AHers agree or is there better ways to save water?

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Biggins

We do our best in our home, to try conserve water - within good levels of keeping things clean and decency.

Oranage2

policarp wrote: »

Was talking about water conservation last night and someone came up wi

th the slogan that they had heard years ago, about when to flush the loo. "If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."
Would AHers agree or is there better ways to save water?

just sh!t and p!ss out the back.

Fremen

Not using garden sprinklers or hoses, and buying and using a dishwasher (properly) would be much more effective.

Why would you need to conserve water anyway? It's Ireland. Fresh water's hardly in short supply.

krudler

policarp wrote: »

Was talking about water conservation last night and someone came up with the slogan that they had heard years ago, about when to flush the loo. "If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."
Would AHers agree or is there better ways to save water?

I think I'd prefer to use water than have my house smell like stale piss in fairness.

Needler

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1415/797203956_37cc79f2b7_o.jpg

Bens

I have met many people who claim to conserve water. Sort showers, dont flush toilets ofet if only doing a number one , etc . I used to conserve it myself.

Then I realized all these peoples houses smelled of p1ss whenever I was in them.
They also all had BO.

When I made the connection I had the terrible thought that maybe my of lack of flushing and quick showers made myself and my house smell too. We thought we had good levels of cleanliness, but you know, you cant smell your own living conditions or BO.

So I asked my best friend and he said, "well I didnt want to say, but yes, there is a strong smell of piss in your house all the time". He didnt admit that I had BO, but I suspect he was lying there.

So know I have a long shower and scrub hard and long. And no yellow water gets left in our toilets now. Flush, and flush some more.

So folks, by all means conserve water. It is a noble thing to do.
But please dont sit near me or invite me to your house, even if YOU cant smell it, or your friends dont have the heart to tell you.

policarp

Fremen wrote: »

Why would you need to conserve water anyway? It's Ireland. Fresh water's hardly in short supply.

I'm told the resevoirs are low and in need of a few weeks rain.

galwayrush

Pissing into a bucket and throwing it over the neighbour's fence would save a few flushes.
Every little helps.

[Deleted User]

policarp wrote: »

"If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."

In an extreme situation it's ok, eg. water supply shortages, but personally I think that's taking it a bit too far. I was invited to stay at a place that has this motto and I had to refuse. I didn't tell them, but it was because of the toilet situation. I mean, if I don't flush, everyone gets to see my urine. If I do flush, everyone knows I was pooing. Plus the hygiene considerations. Firstly splashes, which will be of multiple people's stagnant urine. Secondly, the smell, which is totally withstandable in a festival or temporary situation, but which is certainly not something you want to smell in your house on a daily basis.

Put a brick in your cistern, or occasionally flush with rainwater, but leaving urine to "mellow" in your bathroom is just unnecessary.

krudler

policarp wrote: »

I'm told the resevoirs are low and in need of a few weeks rain.

its been bucketing down all week in most places

Einhard

Fremen wrote: »

Not using garden sprinklers or hoses, and buying and using a dishwasher (properly) would be much more effective.

Why would you need to conserve water anyway? It's Ireland. Fresh water's hardly in short supply.

Fresh clean water is though.

Bens

true-or-false wrote: »

In an extreme situation it's ok, eg. water supply shortages, but personally I think that's taking it a bit too far. I was invited to stay at a place that has this motto and I had to refuse. I didn't tell them, but it was because of the toilet situation. I mean, if I don't flush, everyone gets to see my urine. If I do flush, everyone knows I was pooing. Plus the hygiene considerations. Firstly splashes, which will be of multiple people's stagnant urine. Secondly, the smell, which is totally withstandable in a festival or temporary situation, but which is certainly not something you want to smell in your house on a daily basis.

Put a brick in your cistern, or occasionally flush with rainwater, but leaving urine to "mellow" in your bathroom is just unnecessary.

Problem is you cant smell it in your own house. You get used to the smell. Only visitors can smell it.
Its like someone with BO cant smell it themselves, but by god others can smell it.
Never thought of the plop and splash ... ick

On the bright side though. At least your friends can tell you are conserving water - by the smell in your house

Celly Smunt

i use more than anybody should,on principle.

pow wow

If your house wreaks of pee because you miss every other flush I'd go see a doctor. Or lay off the asparagus.

ejmaztec

Oranage2 wrote: »

just sh!t and p!ss out the back.

...of your neighbour's house.

Bens

pow wow wrote: »

If your house wreaks of pee because you miss every other flush I'd go see a doctor. Or lay off the asparagus.

You wont know your own house wreaks of pee, so it wont have any effect on you. Just on your visitors.
Must be a lot of non flushers I visit eating too much asparagus from what i can see smell.

pow wow

If I know when I've eaten too much asparagus I'm pretty sure your 'friends' know their house wreaks of wee-wee. Choosing to ignore the smell is a whole other AH thread

Ditch

I still use the traditional Polish style loo built over the ditch on the boundary of my land. Hence my handle ~ shortened from " Ditch shitter "

And tissue paper goes into a paper bag. When that's full, I set light to it.

Mike 1972

true-or-false wrote: »

If I do flush, everyone knows I was pooing.

Most of us do from time to time. Its not some big secret you need to keep from the world or anything

BASHIR

policarp wrote: »

Was talking about water conservation last night and someone came up with the slogan that they had heard years ago, about when to flush the loo. "If it's yellow let it mellow, when it's brown flush it down."
Would AHers agree or is there better ways to save water?

eeeww,

Use an old plastic milk carton fill with water and put in your toilet cistern, takes less water to fill it after every flush

ImpossibleDuck

http://holykaw.alltop.com/sink-forces-choice-conserve-water-or-kill-you

Water conservation = sorted.

yupyup7up

blast everything with piss!

squod

Stupid college boys will have Dublin smelling like Barcelona in a few years. Fuhk off college boys, bigger dams > water conservation.

Yahew

Except in cases where there are actual water shortages i.e. announced by the Government there is no need for any of this.

OutlawPete

I do a few things like: when I have a bath I bring the dishes in with me and do them too. I boil eggs in the kettle as I'm making tea and I strap my laundry to the car before hitting the car wash.

Biggins

OutlawPete wrote: »

I do a few things like: when I have a bath I bring the dishes in with me and do them too. I boil eggs in the kettle as I'm making tea and I strap my laundry to the car before hitting the car wash.

Hate to see how you take a shower! :eek:
Backyard when raining and with the soap out?

Yahew

I wash in puddles. Once a week I shower by standing beside puddles on the edge of busy roads.

Turpentine

All these calls for water conservation in Ireland really get my back up. It highlights what a joke our infrastructure is. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe water should be wantonly wasted, but it's ridiculous.

A few days of sunshine: "We have to conserve water, our reservoirs are low"

A few days of snow: "We have to conserve water so we're shutting off supply after 7pm."

It rains for most of the bloody year here.

If money had been spent on fixing the crappy leaking supply pipes during the boom years instead of things like useless e-vote bingo machines, there wouldn't be as much of a problem.

Yahew

Still though, users should pay i.e. metered payments.

galwayrush

Yahew wrote: »

Still though, users should pay i.e. metered payments.

A lot of us have laready paid large connection fees for an often crappy service. Now we maintain the same service but have the pleasure of paying a stealth tax for it. ,