Wasting water! OT

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Wasting water! OT
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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 1:06pm
HI, Heather, Pat, and everyone. Do any of you go thru the "wasting water" scenarios? The one where DH says, "Take shorter showers, do less laundry, you're wasting water", but then sends me out in the rain to get drinking water? We have enough bottled water (the delivery kind, low in sodium , etc) to last through 10 winters, but he wanted Dasani water! I do find half-empty bottles of drinking water all over the house, so I pour it into another and stick it back into the fridge! I was SO mad, because I had just been to the store. DH must be part camel. Anyone else have ideas on how to get rid of this ridiculous habit? Sorry I'm venting, but this is one ridiculous (and expensive)habit I want to break DH of. Ideas? Whiz.

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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 1:52pm
Just a thought that has nothing to do with showers, but with drinking water--if the water is poor where you live and you buy water because of that, have you considered getting a brita water filter for your faucet? Then you could drink your tap water and you would probably save quite a bit of money rather than buying bottled water. Probably not what you were asking however it struck me as I read your post.

                          

             

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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 2:10pm

I second aerandel's suggestion of a Brita filter if your tap water is undrinkable.

All my best,
Danni

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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 2:27pm

Well I am in the water treatment business. Dasani is one of the best bottle waters that you can drink. Its very similiar to Aquafina, as it purified by a 5 stage reverse osmosis system, but Dasani also has minerals replaced. Deer Park is just plain tap water, which generally contains a high level of TDS. Yuck!

I am not a big fan of Brita filters. They are only going to mask the taste of the chlorine in water, and should only be used if you already have a muncipal water supply. I personally would invest in a reverse osmosis system for your home. Its a system that can make water that tastes like Dasani right at your kitchen sink. It can also be hooked up to your icemaker for filtered icecubes.

Shannon


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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 6:30pm
Hi, aerandel. A Brita filter? Now that is an idea! The water is full of impurities, minerals, bad taste,etc. Where do you get this? Do you have to get a whole new faucet system? Thanks. Whiz.
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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 6:33pm
Hi, Shannon. Thanks for information. I do need to do more research on this. We finally got soft water (at MD's suggestion) because of my sensitive skin. BTW--how long is water good for anyway? 6 months to a year? Over a year? Thanks. Whiz.
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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 7:01pm

Wow, Whiz, have you been sneaking around my house or something? LOL! We have the same thing going on here! We have a water dispenser (hot/cold) upstairs in our kitchen, AND both my son and husband need to have bottled water available at all times. My son, for some odd reason, only likes Deer Park water bottles. If there's no Deer Park in the house, he complains about it and says, "Write it on your list, Mom! Put it where you'll see it. Deer Park is the BEST water!" Well, I did recently play a little trick on him. I took one of his empty Deer Park water bottles and filled it with just normal cold tap water, and then I brought it to him, and he didn't know the difference!! LOL! :-D

But honestly, right now I have 8 empty water bottles sitting in my kitchen sink. Neither my son nor my husband can seem to find the trashcan with their empty bottles, so they toss them into the sink, and then I throw them out when I go in to wash dishes.

At the same time, I just wanted to spray down my car from all the rain spots that are on it, and Dh said, "Only use a little bit...we don't want to be wasteful".

If there's anywhere we can cut down on our grocery bill, it's on water. :-D

pat :-D

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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 7:20pm

I'm so with you on the bottled water. I can't bear the taste of the municipal water, and we used to spend tons of money on bottled water. Then the kids would drink out of my bottle, and I'd end up throwing most of it away because of all the backwash (yick!).

Then my aunt bought us a Brita filter for the tap, and I wouldn't go back. No, you don't have to have a whole new system--it basically fits on the existing tap with no more complicated a tool than a wrench. The initial set-up is about $100. You have to replace the filters about every three months (once the initial installation is done, the new filters snap in and out with a button). Two filters cost $25. So, that's $50 a year (after the initial cost).

The water tastes better and, in our case, the filter takes out the particular impurities that the municipal system is weakest at. Plus it removes that horrible chlorine taste!

Blessings,

Heather

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Mon, 01-16-2006 - 4:32am

Hey...I know you can get the brita pitcher virtually anywhere, like walmart, etc. Not sure if they have the actual filter...seems like Heather did a good job of answering your question though Whiz so I'll step back...good luck with the water filter if you decide to get one!

:-)

                          

             

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Mon, 01-16-2006 - 8:23am
Yup, WalMart has the filters and the attachments for putting it on your faucet. You can also pick up Brita-type pitchers for next to nothing at yard sales. I've personally given away two Brita filter pitchers after my aunt gave us the faucet attachment, and I know I see them at yard sales for about $1. The filters for the pitchers cost about $5-8 each. I don't know how many gallons they filter.
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Mon, 01-16-2006 - 2:10pm

I don't know if they have this at your grocery store, but our grocery stores have those water systems where you can buy big jugs of filtered water. We got 2 jugs, and you can refill them. It costs something like $1.69 to fill a 7.5L jug, and it has a little pourspout. DH loves water, so it's great for us.

Our city doesn't charge for water usage. I think everyone pays through property taxes.

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