A wall of water

[MrAnthonyRizzo]

I can see the aesthetic appeal a water wall would have for a suburbanite. We wouldn’t want the Joneses next door to start complaining about all those unsightly blue barrel’s in our yard. But that price is a little steep for just keeping up appearances. I suggest getting the barrels anyway and keeping them in the same garage from whose roof you are collecting the water.

[Firequacker]

This is so scientifically unsound as a method of obtaining clean water at low cost.

[winnabego]

12x 55 gallon barrels will hold the same amount of water. *and it wont cost you 4,500 like this woman spent*

[Pheonix2022]

You will never in your lifetime make back the money u spent on being a hippy tree hugger with this project. Plus u just added two gigantic non-biodegradable tubs of nasty swamp smelling water to the planet. Not enough free containers around the area? And how much more money do you have to spend to sanitize the water? Ridiculous

[Snaffle]

the $1,500 of stipidity

[RyanBoobMan]

Wait how did I get here?

[ncbookz]

@RyanBoobMan same thought! what about a free water barrel from the city and run a flexible hose down tot he barrel?

[prezoftheworld]

This is about as useful as origami. Except that it doesn't even look pretty.

[AIRSOFTINGisAMAZING]

so its a giant bucket? da fuckk???

[deathman113]

the noise from that concrete made me laugh.

[Gir77661]

"I paid 3,350 dollars for this thing. It also took a crap load of time to get this done. I wish it didn't cost so much. Or taken so much time to put in place. I haven't got any water yet, but believe me, I'll be admiring water walls for the rest of my life! ..oh god I'm moving...

[Edd360]

"A water wall does exactly what it's name implies"

makes a wall of water? the fuck?

[gnosismonk]

i hope you get the shavings from the jigsaw inside the tank.

[maizimay]

thats so impractical! its way too expensive! my dad bought a bunch of buckets(about 10 of them for $30) that we put under the tubes from the gutter so we can use the rain water to water the plants when its dry. is that so hard lady? sheesh

[YourMussic]

who the hell would buy this

[sgolosio]

what a crappy idea :D

[aisicakes]

okay I know people are trying to save water and all... but why? it's a renewable resource, it's not like it's made every century or anything! plus 2/3's of the world is made of water, think about it. we should be trying to turn salt water into fresh water, not saving up on bath water! please, I need someone to argue about with, tell me your opinion :)!

[ThatGuyYouArent2]

@aisicakes

Only 2.5% of earth's water is fresh. Of that 2.5, 70% of it is frozen in Greenland and Antarctica. Most of the rest is present as soil moisture. Only 0.007% of all water on earth is available for human resource. Turning salt water into fresh water costs an absolute bomb unless it's done by nature. And when nature does it, it's rain, therefore capturing rain is what makes sense.

[aisicakes]

@ThatGuyYouArent2 But rain is dirty and varying amounts of acid are in it. and if there is frozen water we should be getting that! especially if 0.007 of earth water is enough to keep 6 billion people, that other 70% is looking pretty good. i just don't get how colleccting rain water is good, what do you even do with it? like you collect it and then drink? or is there some infinite source you give it to? hmmm ;)

[ThatGuyYouArent2]

@aisicakes

Rain is actually pretty freaking clean. The acid in it can be neutralised pretty easily. Taking ice from the ice caps would be hugely difficult, plus we kind of need the ice caps to maintain sea currents, and in turn, our climate. 0.007% isn't enough. Look at almost all of africa. There are people that have to walk 15 miles for one bucket of water.

As for this particular collection method, I don't see much use. There really should be one that can connect to the house.

[aisicakes]

@ThatGuyYouArent2 hmmm that's interesting. You're right about Africa, and India definitely isn't helping. Religion can be so inflexible sometimes! How long do you think it is till we run out of clean water?

[ThatGuyYouArent2]

@aisicakes

I can't really say. I'd imagine a fair while, though, since rain replenishes ponds, rivers, lakes etc. That's not to say it's forever, though. It'd be great if we could reduce runoff into oceans.

[aisicakes]

@ThatGuyYouArent2 that would be good. Oooo we should take ice and water from that one planet! you know, i think it's a moon actually but the whole thing is like one big giant snowball! and we could hurl runoff into space, since it goes on foever and keeps getting bigger anyway.

[GamingSho]

Probably a single middle aged woman, they get awfully bored and they pick up dumb hobbies like this

I like the part where she explained what exactly the water walls purpose is

oh wait...

[RustyNex]

crap idea, in the UK we have water barrels, they sit at the corner of the house and collect all the water from the roof, they are always full because of the rain but the water is only useful for the garden because of all the crap in it. or when i was a kid it was a great refueling station for water fights!

[axuboss]

stupid female, doesn't know anything about equity

[OGOTENKSO]

If you have the money, why not spend it? She obviously doesn't care about spending that much money.

[delightracardeanne]

... Really? Send these to third world countries where they NEED THEM. Not Los Angeles, California where people who can AFFORD them, buy them to make a statement of some sort.

[akissy]

XDDDD I prefer my water chains and bronze vessels, a la Japanese. For such a freaking small house, needing two water walls is just not right. The water will stagnate and eventually rot, and be unusable. Why not just gather the water in a vase or vessel, just the water you think you'll need for the dry spells, and that's that. I live in a desert and even here water walls don't seem like a good business, not just because rain here is almost nonexistent, but because it's just too much water stored.

[xjoe1988x]

why the fuck do you even care... rain water lol

[JonnyRigby29]

You live in Africa? The dry season isn't that dry is it? And you're not being very cost efficient.

[one8apc1]

Susan IS schizophrenic.

[vectorialalo]

@one8apc1 is more OCD i guess...

[qwckstr12206]

isnt it going to be hella dirty water though?

[a7x9274]

Or use some buckets scattered around the yard

Seriously? All i heard where reasons not to buy it

[vincescott1340]

sounds like a good idea but, I do not think that it is worth the cost. If you put out more money than you save its a complete bust.

[hippydude89]

@vincescott1340 Well I think it's for environmental reasons. It means less consumption from local reservoirs helping biodiversity in that area, and also catches water runoff before it goes into rivers. Why's that good? Because the heavy metals, chemicals and pollutants water runoff from our roads contains will kill river life.

Your few hundred dollars aren't worth more than preventing the degradation of the environment- especially if you are one of the ones causing it (society does).

[superdork17]

Isnt there bird poop on the roof?

[MrAnon95]

Stupidest invention ever.... it doesnt even filter the water... no tellin how much chemicals her 1970s roof is pourin into her tanks...

[xXxWickeDxXx509]

tree hugger =]

[shezzos]

bucket =10 $, pipe = 5 $, logical thinking = priceless, for everything else, theres google... its like buying sunglasses from gucci or from the store down the road. same shit, different price. some people get rich in the most dumbest ways

[catsrool3]

Yes yes it holds water..but what the fuck does it do?

[graffwriter17]

@catsrool3 3thousand pound fence protects her from terrorists and shit

[Paintfiend123]

you heard of a water but love?

[Aakutou]

People, it is not stupid nor is it wasted money. What she does with the water is she can use it for all sorts of things. Examples: Have to wired to her toilets water, use it for the dry season to water her planets, she can filter it and drink it if she wants. There are a lot of whats she can use that water wall and save more money then she spent on it, with time that is.

[graffwriter17]

@Aakutou yea and spend another 4 thousand dollars for conecting to each toilet

[Aakutou]

@graffwriter17 It is all about the long run effect, not the present effect. Yeah your right, it will cost $4000 to have it connected to each toilet, however in the corse of a year it could save her $8000. Add in the fact that if she uses it to water her garden it would be more. So yes, like everything out there, everything up front is going to seem expensive but in the corse of time it will save you a lot of money in the end.

[graffwriter17]

@Aakutou ? i dont think she has 666 dollar a month water bills maybe that would be rediculous but it would pay for its self over time a very long time. she might not be on this planet anymore by the time it pays off..

[Aakutou]

@graffwriter17 Its not just about the water itself. It is the amount of energy she spends to have the water moved, the energy needed to used it, and the amount of energy needed to sent it back. Having a water wall effected everything within saving energy on the house hold. Plus, I am sure she can get a good tax break or credit from the government for “going green”. Everything is affected and in that affect is where she will save on a lot of money.

[graffwriter17]

@Aakutou yeathats true. i dont think its worth it to me though.

[graffwriter17]

for me

[catsrool3]

@Aakutou This shit wont work in a desert though, so ha.

[ross817]

I REALLY hope she doesn't plan to drink that water.

[Lex60]

I hope she instaled filters or the inside is gonna get cloged with leaves and dirt...

[lostweat]

she should of just bought a pool o_o

[skamobers]

cuz their freken expensive..

[GZxModzz]

I saw these in lake Michigan it's no water wall it was a multiple child floaty.. They were testing it, and in the test 13 children died.. One fell under.. The chubiest of them all... And the other side flipped over... And the other 12 children died... What a sick world we live in... Now they try marketing it as a water wall.. To cover up their crime..

[CaliforniaFarmGirl]

I'm all for going green, but this is just stupid

[dankpurpz]

@CaliforniaFarmGirl haha i meant to like your comment

[drzipperhead]

why didn't you just get a few oil drums instead?

[kilx81]

water wall is a great idea.... however at that price, never gonna happen....

[chu03]

ok there great and all...... but what the fuck do they do???/

[GZxModzz]

Their harder plastic air matresses flipped sideways with openings at the top to get water... Dumb invention...

[SparkySharp69]

@GZxModzz Um brilliant invention!!!

[alfazg]

@chu03 yeah whats the use?

[PlagueGreen]

@chu03 So you can water and wash ur car and stuff when it's drought

[Trisscarro]

@chu03 nothing, they're just hollow that's all.

[jaesungauzakim]

"freaking expensive"

[snivesz32]

Everyone wants to get rich going green. When really the concept of green is mostly doing more with less.

[creager300]

Just wondering what the cost benefit factor is ??

[biggest23]

My family has grown up using roof catchment rainwater since 1978 and at first it went into corrugated iron tanks and now goes into concrete ones. Everyone is very healthy and we did not spend silly money like that.

[ToneJermain]

I hear ya....i just don't get why so much of this "Green Living" cost so much.....To me the Green movement only really works if the masses can all take part....There are always more poor people than rich.....I know there are cheap ways but for the most part...The market cost of these practices are much more when it comes to being green or sustainable

[biggest23]

I suppose the fact it is an industry now and follows the money explains that. I reckon the best method to find a value for money technique is to seek out the work of characters that come up with solutions because they just can't stop themselves and therefore will not view you as a two legged wallet. I bet you know the type as well. They are always dumbfounded by how impressed you are with such an elegant and cheap design when they consider it to be an entirely normal and practical response.

[rotoclip]

another collegeboys idea to sell to somebody how didn't go to college

[samridawaser]

i am sorry to say this, but i still did not catch this, the reason for the water wall is to bring more capacity of water in usage ?

am i right ?

[rickrussell]

It is unclear to be: if you are draining the water off the roof via gutters and pipes anyway, why use a wall-shaped container? Seems like you could use any container. I bet a farm store could sell you an animal trough with similar capacity for a lot less money, or you could even pour your own concrete basin.

[anarchyclayman]

our city is giving away free rain barrels this week.

this seems like a lot of money to fork out.

i hope you get some of it back through some sort of eco incentive program.

[onimarikar]

Great idea! Would be awesome if you could lower the cost to encourage more people to try it.