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you should give a shit

August
26th
2006

Collecting rain water for toilets seems like a very clever idea.

FTA:

While it doesn’t come close to making up for our gas-guzzling, high-consuming lifestyles, rain harvesting does have a positive impact on our environment. Domestic potable water collection requires effort, energy, and chemicals for purification and transport. Toilets use 20 to 25% of water consumed in a residential house. Why are we flushing drinkable water down the toilet? In some other countries of the world, rainwater harvesting on a residential level is a mandatory part of building codes.

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7 Comments
  1. Roberto

    Aug 26th 2006

    Grazie per il link.
    Veramente interessante ed utile.

    Ciao.

  2. Tiffany

    Aug 28th 2006

    In reponse to your last blog “you should give a shit”
    The answer to your question “Why are we flushing drinkable water down the toilet?” is to flush the shit down…. Otherwise you would end up with a toilet full of shit, and that would not be very good. So your question should be “Why dont we flush non drinkable water down the toilet?”
    Tip of the day:
    THINK BEFORE YOU TYPE!
    thanks
    Tiffany

  3. andrew

    Aug 28th 2006

    Tiffany:

    many thanks for the tip. in return, I’ve got three for you:

    1) those words were a quotation from the original article (FTA) rather than my own;
    2) here is the Wikipedia entry for “Rhetorical question”;
    3) THINK BEFORE YOU TYPE!

    thanks
    andrew

  4. Gabriele Biondo

    Nov 28th 2006

    Only one word: STYLE!

  5. andrew

    Jan 1st 2007

    (takes a bow)

    :-)

    4) http://xkcd.com/c169.html

  6. andrew

    Mar 26th 2007
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