Water Saving

Water Saving Ideas/Discussion

This page begins with ideas from a brainstorm after the 2007-07-16 Meeting

• Water catchment (most popular suggestion, we need a design)
  • off the back garages
  • cisterns and downspouts
  • cistern with shared streets
• Base line studies of water usage - comparison and tracking
  • inventory of water saving devices (toilets, showerheads, faucets)
    

(Lara and Chris expressed interest in working on this)

• Replace current washing machines with better water saving models
  

(2 washers at 117 Bimini are under contract from Consolidated. Our contract will not end for some time and is difficult to end unilaterally)

• Composting toilet
• Outdoor pee toilet
  

(Under current regulations apartment units can only have a composting toilet in addition to a flush toilet. Our bathrooms are so small it would be difficult to install a composting toilet without removing the flush toilet, sink or tub. We believe we do have the option of adding a composting toilet outside that everyone could use.)

• Improve fixing of dripping faucets, hose bibs,leaking toilets, etc.
• Grey water
  • from downstairs washer
  • kitchen sinks

Details and information on water saving methods

• Water Catchment
  • Diverting water that falls on impervious surfaces to a cistern for later use as greywater. Reduces runoff and water usage. Common methods of implementation involve routing rain the falls on roofs to gutters, then through a downspout and debris screen to a storage barrel. Novel applications could include ground level catchment, for example storing street runoff.