A typical American home uses approximately one-hundred gallons of water per day, and according to the 2007 census, there are over one-hundred and eleven million households in the U.S. So, making some of the smallest changes to your own plumbing system can not only save you money now, but a potentially significant amount of money over time. And if everyone made these changes it would make a huge positive impact on the environment.
Low-flow: Inexpensive and relatively simple to install, low-flow shower heads, faucet aerators, and toilets can reduce your home water consumption by as much as 50% (an average household can save about 7,800 gallons of water a year), making them the most effective home water conservation projects. But what you may not realize is that if you're cutting your water consumption, that reduces the amount of water that you need to heat -cutting your electricity or natural gas (whichever your hot water heater uses) bill up to 50%.
Graywater/greywater systems are a safe and easy way to collect and filter the water used by faucets, dishwashers, and washing machines, and then reuse it for non-drinking water purposes. One example would be using this recycled water to water your plants. Graywater systems also keep your soil well irrigated by diverting water to it instead of your local sewage system.
Graywater (or greywater) systems: A safe and easy way to collect and filter the water used by faucets, dishwashers, and washing machines, and reuse it for non-potable (non-drinking water) purposes --cutting back on your home's water consumption. The system recycles water, to water plants for example, reducing your use of fresh, potable water. It also cuts down the amount of water going into your community's sewage system instead of the soil.
A home water filtering system can purify enough water to fill more than three-thousand of the plastic water bottles thrown away every year, you can save a lot of money by not paying the mark-up on store bought water. By reducing the use of these disposable bottles, we also reduce our dependency on crude oil, whose by-product is used to create plastic water bottles. Every year, about seventeen million barrels of oil are used to supply Americans with all the plastic water bottles they use.
Leaky pipes: What happens when your leaky pipes are so full of pinhole leaks or can't be repaired and need to be replaced? A repipe, or pipe replacement, involves cutting open walls and removal of the affected pipes. Not only does this mean you're throwing away drywall and old pipes, but you're using new drywall and pipes, each with its own manufacturing toll on the environment.
CuraFlo's epoxy pipe lining is a "green", or environmentally friendly alternative to repipe. It involves less mess and takes less time than pipe replacement. More often than not epoxy lining is more cost-effective too. Your pipes are epoxy lined through connections to your existing plumbing fixtures and valves, nearly or completely eliminating the need to cut open walls. Your pipes are cleaned out and epoxy is blown through. Your existing pipes are restored to good as new condition with at least another 50 years of service life.
Low-flow: Inexpensive and relatively simple to install, low-flow shower heads, faucet aerators, and toilets can reduce your home water consumption by as much as 50% (an average household can save about 7,800 gallons of water a year), making them the most effective home water conservation projects. But what you may not realize is that if you're cutting your water consumption, that reduces the amount of water that you need to heat -cutting your electricity or natural gas (whichever your hot water heater uses) bill up to 50%.
Graywater/greywater systems are a safe and easy way to collect and filter the water used by faucets, dishwashers, and washing machines, and then reuse it for non-drinking water purposes. One example would be using this recycled water to water your plants. Graywater systems also keep your soil well irrigated by diverting water to it instead of your local sewage system.
Graywater (or greywater) systems: A safe and easy way to collect and filter the water used by faucets, dishwashers, and washing machines, and reuse it for non-potable (non-drinking water) purposes --cutting back on your home's water consumption. The system recycles water, to water plants for example, reducing your use of fresh, potable water. It also cuts down the amount of water going into your community's sewage system instead of the soil.
A home water filtering system can purify enough water to fill more than three-thousand of the plastic water bottles thrown away every year, you can save a lot of money by not paying the mark-up on store bought water. By reducing the use of these disposable bottles, we also reduce our dependency on crude oil, whose by-product is used to create plastic water bottles. Every year, about seventeen million barrels of oil are used to supply Americans with all the plastic water bottles they use.
Leaky pipes: What happens when your leaky pipes are so full of pinhole leaks or can't be repaired and need to be replaced? A repipe, or pipe replacement, involves cutting open walls and removal of the affected pipes. Not only does this mean you're throwing away drywall and old pipes, but you're using new drywall and pipes, each with its own manufacturing toll on the environment.
CuraFlo's epoxy pipe lining is a "green", or environmentally friendly alternative to repipe. It involves less mess and takes less time than pipe replacement. More often than not epoxy lining is more cost-effective too. Your pipes are epoxy lined through connections to your existing plumbing fixtures and valves, nearly or completely eliminating the need to cut open walls. Your pipes are cleaned out and epoxy is blown through. Your existing pipes are restored to good as new condition with at least another 50 years of service life.
About the Author:
Brian LeMaire is President of CuraFlo and has been in the plumbing maintenance industry since 1981. He is a State registered plumbing contractor in Ohio. Find out more about pipe leaks and discover what to do about Manhole lining
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