Morgan Freeman
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dw1305 said:I don't use RO for this reason, and also try and do as much as I can to reduce water wastage. I've always used rain-water, and never had any problems, but I've always lived some-where rural. If we have a run of drier summers I could see a situation where my 5 water butts (1000 litres of water storage) isn't a large enough reservoir.
I think for those of us who live in the South and East we are going to have to get used to both water shortages and higher prices for the water that we use. As an example Cambridge has a very low rainfall "At the Botanic Garden, the 30-year average annual rainfall from 1970 to 2000 was just 557 mm" almost exactly the same as Jerusalem, and making it drier than Rome, Perth or Seville.
cheers Darrel
One of the reasons I've always avoided installing an RO system. As a slight aside, one of the benefits for me to the walstad/low tech approach is the low energy usage compared to high tech set ups. I simply don't feel comfortable wasting such amounts of energy on a hobby, nor large amounts of water.