I NEED YOUR HELP
Please help me put an end to the Royal Flush
What occurs now is that fresh water enters the system, reclaimed stored underground, poured out onto the coast and to some extent reused by the city. The cit uses the water to keep city parks supplied and gulf courses use it to keep their lawns green but is that enough?
As of now fresh water flows directly to the toilet and from there the water flows directly to a wastewater treatment plant. There the wastewater is reclaimed and stored underground or used for limited environmental purposes. This is not an attempt to divert reclaimed water use but instead a suggestion that its practical uses have not been exhausted or perceived.
Let me expain. The Toilet Water Reuse System (TWRS) is a system of water reuse aimed at ending the practice of using potable water (fresh water) for toilets in Southern California or in any city which is also referred to as putting an end to the Royal Flush. The urgency of conserving water increases when the effects or strain that global warming and drought will put on water reserves is considered and that city and state leaders are will continue to increase taxes to encourage water conservation as a result of water shortages.
The TWRS takes advantage of current water treatment or water reclaiming technology that cities are accustomed to using for recycling water. By disconnecting the city potable or fresh water from supplying toilets, the TWRS saves potable water and keeps it in our reservoirs. The TWRS works by collecting wastewater from toilets, reclaiming that wastewater and then sending that water back for reuse repeatedly.
Considering the current wasteful habits many city residents have or the increasing costs of water low flow toilets are great for saving water but normally these toilets are flushed more than one time. If the 1.6 gallons of water, that a low flow uses, is flushed 2 to 3 times, the gallons begin to add up and besides it is still 1.6 gallons of fresh water wasted. Using recycled water means that we can use toilets that flush 3 to 5 gallons of recycled water because fresh water is not wasted. However, neither is the recycled water wasted because the same water is repeatedly cleaned and sent through the system.
This system requires redirecting wastewater from all city toilets to a wastewater treatment plant dedicated to processing only toilet wastewater. This plant would reclaim the wastewater and then send it to a reservoir. The reservoir would then redirect that reclaimed water back into homes for use in toilets only. This water is termed Blue Water (BW). Using BW means the city saves potable water.
Each month the city uses a specific amount of potable water for just toilet use. By capturing two months of water and reusing that water continuously, the city saves the ten (10) months of water it otherwise would have used for toilet use.
The following then is an additional concept to water conservation as apposed to an alternative approach. The fresh water or potable water that is flushed down a toilet every day is replaced with recycled water. This however, is a self-contained system of recycling water and not one that requires replenishing the toilet tank with potable water each time it is used.
The Average toilet uses 3 to 5 gallons of water and the low flow about 1.6 gallons with every use. The average amount of times the toilet is used is estimated to be nine times a day per person. Using the lower number of 3 gallons multiplied by the average use (9) the average is 27 gallons a day per person. Twenty seven gallons multiplied by seven days a week is 189 gallons, per month 756 gallons and 9072 per year.
By continuously cleaning and pumping the recycled water for two months of toilet use back into the home, only 1512 gallons of water is needed to keep the system going.
The alternative is to redirect wastewater the city already cleans into a reservoir. The reclaimed water is then pumped back into homes for toilet use only. This illuminates the need to send the waste water from just toilets directly to a dedicated wastewater plant.
The example, in this animation, is just one toilet in one home but if a city incorporated its use, the potable water saved is exponential.
So please help me by contacting your city and state leaders and asking them to consider the TWRS.
The system will only help us conserve water for other important needs. So stop flushing clean, potable water and lets put an end to the Royal Flush, it's un-American.
This issue is not getting much attention so that is why I am asking for your help
go to the following blog for more information
http://usingwater.blogspot.com/
Contact me at rafaelbuelna2003@yahoo.com
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