Comments on: Happiness Is Going A Little Bit Greener Every Day: http://thehealthylivinglounge.com/2009/02/03/happiness-is-going-a-little-bit-greener-every-day/ Breathe. Unwind. Relax Deeply. Sun, 20 May 2012 07:39:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Chris http://thehealthylivinglounge.com/2009/02/03/happiness-is-going-a-little-bit-greener-every-day/#comment-24723 Chris Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:31:07 +0000 http://thehealthylivinglounge.com/2009/02/03/happiness-is-going-a-little-bit-greener-every-day/#comment-24723 Reverse Osmosis is really not green! RO systems waste 85 to 95% of the water that it cleans. Disadvantages of reverse osmosis units RO units use a lot of water. They recover only 5 to 15 percent of the water entering the system. The remainder is discharged as waste water. Because waste water carries with it the rejected contaminants, methods to re-cover this water are not practical for household systems. Waste water is typically connected to the house drains and will add to the load on the household septic system. An RO unit deliver-ing 5 gallons of treated water per day may discharge 40 to 90 gallons of waste water per day to the septic system. From the website: http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/h2oqual/watsys/ae1047w.htm Just drink the water that your city has probably already filtered. Reverse Osmosis is really not green! RO systems waste 85 to 95% of the water that it cleans.

Disadvantages of reverse osmosis units

RO units use a lot of water. They recover only 5 to 15 percent of the water entering the system. The remainder is discharged as waste water. Because waste water carries with it the rejected contaminants, methods to re-cover this water are not practical for household systems. Waste water is typically connected to the house drains and will add to the load on the household septic system. An RO unit deliver-ing 5 gallons of treated water per day may discharge 40 to 90 gallons of waste water per day to the septic system.

From the website:

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/h2oqual/watsys/ae1047w.htm

Just drink the water that your city has probably already filtered.

]]> By: Melanie Thomassian http://thehealthylivinglounge.com/2009/02/03/happiness-is-going-a-little-bit-greener-every-day/#comment-21380 Melanie Thomassian Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:14:34 +0000 http://thehealthylivinglounge.com/2009/02/03/happiness-is-going-a-little-bit-greener-every-day/#comment-21380 I could really do with putting some of these into action. Very useful post. Stumbled! I could really do with putting some of these into action. Very useful post.

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