Water Reclamation

We are under 20 gallons per day per person and some months we are as low as 12 gallons per person per day.  Most months we come in around 16 gallons per person per day.  The Riot4Austerity goal is 10 gallons per person per day.  The 16 gallons we use includes some outdoor watering and some for my work as a costumer.  Textiles is a water intensive profession and we grow most of our own produce so we are proud to be as close as we are.  Before joining Riot4Austerity our water usage averaged 25 gallons per person per day.

 

Earlier we talked about how to make your own rain barrel.  The rain barrel project was easy to do, and it was very exciting to see how quickly the barrels filled up when it rained.  Unfortunately, it was also a bit disappointing to see how quickly those sixty-five gallons of water were used up watering the

Greg really wanted our son to have a lawn to on play in the summer.  When we bring out the sprinkler in the summer for some relief on the hottest days, our back yard just turned into a mud bowl so he finally got me to agree on putting in grass.

We went back and forth and back and forth reading all the articles we could find about weather its better to have a synthetic lawn or a natural lawn.  Most of the articles concluded with, "Well, it depends. . ." but none dared to offer even a faulty set of standards to help us make a decision.

We have been planning on setting up rain barrels in our yard for some time now, but it was the recent weather report, predicting one more rainshower, that spurred us to get moving in time to catch it.