Just seen the EcoCamel aerating showerhead – their test results claim a more pleasant shower with almost 50% of the water consumption of a standard shower. At the moment they are £40 for two – not the cheapest option, but a major saving if they work as forecast. Not only do you save water, but [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Water’
19 Mar
Creating a home greywater system
Just a quick pointer to a video from Peak Moment that I’ve posted over at le Jardin Potager looking at building a greywater system to reuse our waste water for watering the garden. This is a nice system, not too energy intensive and very food-focussed. To view the post go here: Creating a home greywater system.
19 Mar
A Cast-Iron Garden Hand-Pump
Another nice resilient piece of equipment. Assuming you’ve got some local water storage – hopefully big rainwater tanks – you need to be able to get to the water in case of long power shortages, where mains water is likely to be unavailable and power cannot be spared for electric water pumps. Here’s what you [...]
12 Feb
Shopping List – latest update
Steadily firming up the shopping list for our new house – here’s the latest list, with links. Kitchen Multi-fuel or Wood-Fired Range (possibly with Back Boiler), will need to be smokeless Various non-powered kitchen gadgets: Mouli, Hand-Powered Blender, Thermos Slow Cooker, Low-voltage (LED or Fluorescent) under-cabinet lighting Water Purifier Large Pantry, pref double-sided DC Fridge or Brownout Protector Equipment for Waxing [...]
11 Feb
Reducing our Water Charges
Having been looking at increasing our resilience and reducing our impact by using rainwater internally from a large Rainwater Tank, one thing to note is that it can also save us money. Firstly we need to get a meter fitted, so that we’ll only pay our standing charge plus actual water usage. If we’re not using [...]
10 Feb
Rainwater tanks
As promised in my previous post about drinking water, here are my thoughts on our rainwater storage. In our current home town of Brisbane, Australia, the dams that supply our drinking water recently bottomed out at around 14% capacity. The severe water restrictions that we’ve had for years have meant that even in our inner-city suburb about half [...]
28 Dec
Aims and Achievements
I’d been planning to put together a list of aims and achievements since I talked about it back in August. In the great pause between Christmas and New Year it seems appropriate to finally get around to it! So here is my quick brain dump. I’ll expand on this as I achieve some of them: [...]
6 Nov
Resilience: More about Compost Toilets
I still haven’t managed to find a manufacturer of micro-flush composting toilets in the UK, but at least I have now found a supplier: The Envirolet Low Water Remote System (pictured) is shipped from a UK warehouse. It’s paired with the Sealand 510 Pedestal which seems to be standard for micro-flush systems, and the price includes the [...]
2 Nov
Preparations: Composting Toilets
In our post-peak-oil world, as energy gets more expensive and fossil-fuel-based fertilisers become rarer, the sewage system is one area we can look at making a big difference. Sounds distasteful I know, and not some thing usually discussed around the world’s dinner tables! Everybody has a memory of using a non-plumbed toilet somewhere – a [...]
