Yodabunny wrote:
It depends on how the filtration system works. You're not actually wasting water when it goes down the drain you're wasting treatment costs and power from pumping the water to your home. That water is eventually added back into the system. If the cost of maintenance and filters is low enough to justify the cost of the system (pump, holding tank, heater, power to run it all etc) then it's a great step forward.
All this really does is decentralize the filtration process. Except you still need the filtration process for the other taps in your house so really all you are doing is lowering the amount of water the existing filtration system has to handle which is quite limiting since capacity isn't a huge issue for water treatment systems designed to serve cities given they're designed to handle toilets etc as well.
This is fantastic for people on wells and certain parts of the world where water is scarce though. It'll be much much better when they start creating entire home systems and adoption spreads as you'll then be able to start dropping municipal capacity.
I'd also be rather interested in what can/cannot be filtered by this system. What if I've been doused in gasoline and I hop in the shower? What happens when I clean my bath tub? Do I now need a checklist before I take a shower?
And, on that note, what is the point where it's too limited? What can/can't you use to clean your tub? Is bleach out? What happens if you need to declog the drain?
An industrial-quality filtration system that's community-funded and managed makes these a non-issue. My own personal threshold would be pretty low when it came to making allowances, to be honest.
That said, it's definitely a different scenario when we're talking about situations where municipal filtering wouldn't be available, or would be prohibitively expensive.
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