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RobbAdams
08-23-2006, 06:13 PM
What do you do with yours?

Seems like a waste to just put it down the drain.

Robb

Delphinus
08-28-2006, 11:18 PM
Water your grass maybe?

Unfortunately, I just put mine down the drain. Too much effort to harvest it and haul it up the stairs. I just consider it a cost of the RO basically.

MoeReefer
08-28-2006, 11:46 PM
drink it, it is cleaner than the tap water.

cheers

DanG
08-29-2006, 12:00 AM
How is it cleaner than the tap water? You take 5 parts tap water, remove 1 part of the water and keep 5 parts of the contaminants. My TDS in is ~70 and out is 1, while the waste water is ~110 PPM.

marie
08-29-2006, 12:03 AM
How is it cleaner than the tap water? You take 5 parts tap water, remove 1 part of the water and keep 5 parts of the contaminants. My TDS in is ~70 and out is 1, while the waste water is ~110 PPM.

It still goes through the carbon and sediment block first :biggrin:. No chlorine if nothing else

EmilyB
08-29-2006, 01:52 AM
Ours is in the laundry room, so it's good for that ocassional cold water load. I even got motivated once and stuck a heater in there to do a warm load. :biggrin: I'd like to run it outside for the dog pool....hmm..

SaltLady
08-30-2006, 07:24 PM
I run mine into my washer, works great, never have to worry about it over flowing if you are just using a pail.

It works well for us as we have our daughter, her hubby and our grandaughter (she just turned 1), so they do lots of laundry. I always have RO water on hand, so it doesn't take long to fill the washer LOL

Lee