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Name : Anton
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Location : Vermont
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E-mail :
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Comments : Fantastic! I am going to do this, and I am glad that you have put together this guide. Mine will only be for the spring-fall, as the winters (-30 F!) in VT will make it hard to keep it running effectively.
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Name : 4jacks
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Location : Maryland
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Comments : Nice D.I.Y. Page, Im definetely going to use this in my new house. It would be nice if I could get the rain barrel in the attic so It can supply all the toilets in the house.
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Name : Taff
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Location : Western Australia
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Well i must say you have produced a very informative site. I live in W.Australia where water as you can imagine is a precious rescourse. I am on the path to Organic and Eco friendly gardening and have just installed rainwater barrels to my down pipes from
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Name : david
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Location : raleigh nc
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : This is awesom! We are having a drought here for the last 18 months and this is a great idea. However I would need to install a pump as I have a 2 story house. Even if I were to just connect it to my downstairs toilet I would likely have to raise the bare
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Name : Benton & Sally Anderson
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Location : N. Little Rock, AR
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E-mail : treehuggersconsulting.org
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Comments : Love it! Love it! Love it! Thank You!
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Name : Will
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Location : Williamsport, Ohio
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E-mail : 1234567
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Comments : Thanks for doing all the R&D for me. Water bill here runs / Mo. Now work on a water barrel that brings water to room temp before entering hot water Tank! ?
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Name : Raimondo
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Location : Seattle
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Comments : Very nice work. Congratulations. I thought of collecting rain water for the toilette after I saw the water bills in my new home. I see you already worked all of the issues out. Outstanding.
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Name : Tom Sargent
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Location : Florida
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Very interesting setup! Im going to look into setting it up.
Im on a well, but this would save my water softner & filter sysetem.
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Name : George
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Location : Roanoke VA
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Comments : Nice set up.
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Name : Bryan Ferrer
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Location : Denver, CO
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Nice article, thanks! Thinking about installing a rain barrell and the possible uses for the water. Im more interested in using it for watering the garden, or potentially the toilet too...
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Name : Stephen
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Location : WV
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Comments : Nice job thanks for posting this
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Name : Lynrae
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Location : Tacoma, WA
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : I love your installation page~ great and thorough instructions and pictures. I found it through Dan Borbas natural rain water website and bought my first rain barrel today. Im inspired!
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Name : alex
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Location : tanzania
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : wow thanks for your great idea .due to draught in subsahara africa we need more guys like you .
i will definetly adopt it and i am sure it will come handy
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Name : Dj
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Location : Seattle wa.
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E-mail : drbobjones@hotmail
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Comments : A Great article. You answered every question someone may have. I like the fact that you put in prices of parts to show how inexpensive this can be. Great work!
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Name : Joe
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Location : Michigan
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Great Site! Time permitting, Im going to try it this summer.
Thanks for the great info.
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Name : Renee
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Location : New Jersey
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E-mail :
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Comments : WOW! What a GREAT IDEA!
Thanks for all the detail!
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Name : Tony
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Location : Pittsburgh, Pa
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Great work here. Pittsburgh has a pretty bad Combined Sewer Overflow problem and we need to incentivize this project on a large scale. Our CSOs start to kick in after, you wont believe this, around 1/10th of an inch of rain. We get about 35 annually. I ma
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Name : mike
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Location : england
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : like your idear renting house in ireland shall try it there thank you for putting it on the internet got you through web site in australia www.rainharvesting.com.au thanks once again mike kinnane.
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Name : Penny
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Location : North Carolina
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Cool idea, considering this for our new fishing cabin which is to far back in the woods to have electricty run out there, and also plumbing in this barrel to kitchen for sink. thanks
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Name : cee
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Location : S. Fallsburg, NY
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Thanks for sharing the info on how to build a rain barral toilet ... my husband now has a new project this weekend ;)
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Name : Charlie
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Location : Florida
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Great job of documenting this setup, very well done. I have 2 toliets on the 2nd floor and 1 on the 1st, no basement. Thinking I would need a pump ?
Charlie
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Name : Nanci
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Location : Portland, OR
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E-mail : nancirothAThotmailDOTcom
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Comments : Very Cool. Were just getting our rain barrell figured out, but I cant wait to connect it to the toilet, probably sometime next year. We are in a one-story house, so we are working on a way to elevate the rainbarrel safely. Thanks for the great idea and de
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Name : Anthony Romani
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Location : Edwardsville, PA
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Great, I love it. My friend and I were just talking about installing one in our homes. I like your setup.
Thanks, Tony.
God Bless You and be with you always, and may you have a great day.
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Name : brian
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Location : tennessee
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E-mail : brianrhoades30s.com
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Comments : go green i thought this was going to be my own invention but yall beat me to it i love the instuctions thanks.
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Name : becky
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Location : olympia
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Nice site! There is a developement in Seattle that uses rain water. I wonder how they do it? Do you know of them?
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Name : luis
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Location : olympia wa
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E-mail :
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Comments : this is good men
thanks for shering the info
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Name : N. C.
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Location : Hamilton, Ontario; Canada
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E-mail :
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Comments : Excellent system & ideas! In the battle of the greening of society, every little bit helps. The answer is not in one technology over another; like our biosphere, the answer is in synergistically (where the sum of the parts is greater than the whole) emplo
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Name : joe
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Location : atlanta
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E-mail :
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Comments : just bought my first house.
cant wait to get my rain barrels.
Thanks for the encouragement!
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Name : andy g
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Location : college park, md
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : awesome awesome awesome. now i need to raise a rain barrell up about 10 feet!!
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Name : Scott Kustaborder
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Location : Bellwood, PA
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E-mail :
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Comments : Great idea, I am building an addition and plan to do a similar setup for both my toilets via a electric switched pump and collected rainwater in barrels in my basement! Should work OK, thanks for the info!!
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Name : ray
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Location : haltom city tx
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Thanks for sharing such detailed information. I am confident now to begin work on my own system. Thanks!
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Name : Lorna
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Location : Dorset England
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : I did this! It works! Plumber wd not allow me to fit a splitter - UK regulations! So took a deep breath and cut off mains altogether. Have 2 lge butts linked, and topped up butt by hosepipe from mains just once last summer. Cut water bill dramatically. Fo
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Name : Mike Killmon
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Location : Massachusetts
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E-mail :
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Comments : Great idea, one more thing that I my wife will call me crazy for.
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Name : Tony
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Location : Plymouth, England
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Great site! I am planning to instal a tank in my celler (really just a deep stand up space under ny bungalow) and use a submersible pump to lift the water to the WC cistern. To avoid high/low cistern float valve problems I will top up the celler tank with
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Name : BOB
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Location : ONT CANADA
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E-mail :
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Comments : good idea gotta try this
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Name : Todd F
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Location : Fargo, ND
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E-mail :
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Comments : Awesome! I love it.
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Name : terry r
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Location : england
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : brilliant
iam construting a vaery similar set up for grey(sorry gray)water in my own house.
all the best
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Name : Faye
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Location : Irvington, VA
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E-mail :
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Comments : A beautiful job, and an inspiration for local programs. Thanks so much for doing this.
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Name : Jackson Aliwa
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Location : Gaborone Botswana
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : This is really ingeneous! I call this applied engineering with an environmetally conscious mentality. Right now it is raining cats and dogs where we live, and we are experiencing flooding in the city. But soon, when the season is over, our water scarcity
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Name : Karen Stingle
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Location : Eugene, OR
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Inspiring. I have a more low tech one, which means hauling buckets, but its not too inconvenient, and I dont have a good place to collect higher than my toilet tank, so I guess Ill stick with what Ive got. But good to see this. If I owned my home (I rent)
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Name : Eng. Matthew Matimbwi
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Location : Malinyi, Tanzania
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Dear friend,
I have tried to download the materials about water harvesting for toilet installations, but it does not work. Can you send me as PD file? I want to use your idea in developing water catching system for school toilets.
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Name : Kent Butler
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Location : Austin, TX
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : This is a wonderful example of self-help that could take on a life of its own. I admire you for sharing and being such a good instructor. Hope to be able to do it myself.
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Name : Bruce Rock
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Location : KAUKAUNA, WI
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : During the summer I plan on using rain water from four 260 gallon totes and during the winter, the gray, heated water from the first floor bath tub and basement clothes washer to flush our two toilets.
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Name : Richard Tidyman
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Location : Boone, NC
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : If I can get my barrels hight enough, Ill consider doing the same thing.
RT
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Name : Peter
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Location : Darwin Australia
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : a well illustrated project and very worthwhile. I continue to be amazed at the high flush volumes in most of the US. Now mandatory for 3L/6L systems in Australia, although ours [40yrs old] are dual flush 4/9L systems
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Name : Kevin Toale
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Location : Mt Dora Fla
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Good ideas. Im just starting to seriously look at what youve already done.
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Name : kath stroman
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Location : misson bc
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Do you know any thing about hooking it up to washer,etc.. and what that would take?
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Name : kath stroman
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Location : Mission BC
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : What a great site. We are moving and Im trying to go as green as I can on the next house. Have you found out anything on solarstuff for Not very sunny places?
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Name : Belinda Walberg
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Location : Isle of Wight
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E-mail :
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Comments : We are in the process of trying to buy a little old house in need of total renovation. After years of renting we would like to be able to score for reducing consumption in our own home. Thank you.
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Name : Andre
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Location : Gold Bar, WA
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E-mail : [email protected]
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Comments : Nice to find a fellow rainwater harvester in the NorthWest.
your next step could be to recycle greywater when your rainbarrel is empty?
Nic work.
Andre.
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