Waste Water

Why no pictures of this?





to add MM its called waste water for a reason, if you really don't want waste water just get a DI filter, but it will probably eat up the filter media quick.

 

not to get off topic, is waste water bad for drinking. I can only imagine people dying of thirst in the desert and we are wasting so much water (I know, I know, waste is the American way)

 

I really don't have a lot of pictures of all of my trees. Here's a bad one. The trident maple has a lot of it's leaves still. The Korean Hornbeam forest planting in the background has lost most of it's leaves.

I had tons of trees in training.

 

I heard waste water is actually bad to drink because its stripped of anything beneficial. Not that its actually "bad" but you couldn't live on it without regular water.

 

I use my watse water from RO/DI to do my laundry. Installed the unit next to my washing machine and put the waste line into the washing machine. Once it fills up, I shut the RO/DI off and do a load of wash. This is the BEST way I could think of so that I wasn't wasting all that water.

 

I agree that it's not "bad" and that as a sole source of nutrition, you could not LIVE on it. But it's not the sole source of minerals or nutrition for most (if not all) of us.

If you are relying on water for all of your micronutes/macrominerals in terms of personal nutrition - you have much bigger problems than figuring out what water to drink.

Nutrition is supposed to come from food (and when necessary supplemented by vitamins) - not from your water.

 

The brine or waste from a RO or RO/DI has not been stripped of anything since it has not passed through the RO membrane or DI resin. It is what passes around the membrane and carries the TDS away that is left on the membranes surface when the pure water ions pass through to become RO water. Generally it will be 20 to 25% higher in TDS than the tap water was to begin with but will have no chlorine residual since it has passed through a sediment filter and carbon block.

No, I would not drink it since it has more TDS than the tap did to begin with. Use it on the landscape.

 

I'm following this thread. I was going to ask the same questions. My plan was to just put the waste water down the drain. I really have no use for it at my house.

 

I put mine down the drain and have no problem with doing so. Our wastewater is recycled and either recharged into the ground or used for watering greenbelts and golf courses so its not wasting in the true sense of the word. We are not making more water, its been here for millions of years and gets recycled over and over through the hydrologic cycle. Just try not to add too many synthetic chemicals and bad stuff to it which makes treatment harder.