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RE: Water Conservation - 3/17/2014 7:02:14 AM

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In America "code" is generally only within the limits of a city.

Though catching rainwater is illegal across the board in CO depending on the water rights you own on the property.

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RE: Water Conservation - 3/17/2014 7:04:18 AM

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Hmmm...

http://water.state.co.us/SURFACEWATER/SWRIGHTS/Pages/RainwaterGraywater.aspx

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RE: Water Conservation - 3/17/2014 10:51:58 AM

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Does anyone know of some kind of loop valve that reroutes the water back to the heating tank until it gets hot? On demand hot water heaters are too expensive, and my shoulders hate schlepping the bucket I currently use for catchment while it gets hot.

Sealed pump rated for hot water.
Tubing
Two "pierce valves"
fittings for tubing.
wiring for pump.

I put one of these in at the house I had in the desert of eastern Washington. A pierce valve is commonly used for attaching tubing for an ice maker to the water pipes. It doesn't require brazing or changing the water piping just attaching.

Figure out a good place to locate the pump and switch for it. At the house in WA, there was a sliding door in the kitchen that had washer, dryer, and hot water heater behind. I just put a switch box on the wall just inside the door and the pump on a shelf next to the hot water heater. (ease of access for maintenance)

Attach a pierce valve to hot water pipe at farthest from hot water heater.
Attach pierce valve to hot water piping near the hot water heater.

Run tubing from hot water heater to inlet of pump.
Run tubing from farthest piping to outlet of pump.

Now you have a pre-heater for your hot water piping. Insulating the hot water piping helps save heating costs too but that is a more difficult thing to do if not done at new construction.

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RE: Water Conservation - 3/17/2014 2:50:19 PM

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Anybody been out to Palm Springs recently? Are the golf courses still bright green? Wonder where all that water comes from?

yup,they're still green,altho I have no idea where the water comes from(I know it can't be the salton sea,cause then it would smell like dead fish)...maybe they pull it from the air,cause damn is it allways humid there

up in yucca valley(the small city north of the palm springs area by bout 30 miles)they're trying to reopen the failed golf course.
the parcel itself has water rights,and was going to be purchased by the local water district so that they might be able to better use the water for the community,but some back door shenanigans happened with the "good ol boy" crowd and a local rich bloke swoped up over 400 acres and water rights for a whooping 400 grand...So not only did the water district loose the water rights,but there's going to be a major drain on the aquifer now too...

as for personal water recycling,I'm more then willing to give golden showers to any water conscious gal in the area...free of charge...cause that's the caring kind of guy I am

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RE: Water Conservation - 3/17/2014 3:05:16 PM

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it's ironic,while I read this thread,my neighbors kids are creating a river with a hoose outside right now,just running water for the fuck of it,I see it running into my yard and down the street,they've been do'n this now every day fer the last week.............

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RE: Water Conservation - 3/17/2014 8:40:42 PM

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