Personally i think that all w/c ' s should go DI only in an effort to preserve the planets resources , that way it will cut the chance of any hose bans , i mean , what is the average waste to pure ratio ? 3 to 1 .
DI is green as the hills !
Rich P @ F
Sorry, just to be pedantic Rich, no matter how much water we may use, or how much we 'waste', we aren't squandering the planets water resouces, it all goes back to the same place whether it's down the drain or over a window.
It all makes it's way to the sea or evaporates into the atmosphere, clouds get formed, it rains and the process starts all over again.
As Neil says, the true wastage is from all the underground leaks, and it is a truly appalling wastage too.
In fairness to the water companies they are all replacing old pipes with new ones, and that takes time.
Many will say they aren't doing enough, or not doing enough fast enough (to many enough's there
)
But there are thousands and thousands of miles of pipework to replace.
These pipes are so old it is barely worth the effort to simply repair a leak (though they have to do so when they find them) they have to replace miles of affected pipes.
Of course we shouldn't be in this position, major efforts over the last 40 years should have been in place to stop this happening.
Anyway, enough musing!
If I am ever asked where I get my water from I'll lie, and tell them I fill up 'on site' as and when I need too.
I'll then convert my system so that I could indeed do so if required.
Roy Harding has a system where he can do this if he needs to, and his waste to pure ratio is only 1:1.
I'm glad I don't have my address and home telephone number on my van now!!
I'm not sure at what point a WFP window cleaner would be affected by a water ban, we are earning our living after all, you might even be able to use the human rights act to get around it if push came to shove.
Even though we may be commercial users, you could lump every WFP user in the country together, add up all the water they use in a month and you wouldn't come close to what a large factory would use in a single day, i.e. A paper mill, a power station, a steelworks and so on.
In fact a paper mill will use more water in a week than all of us combined would use in a year, actually they would probably use more in a few hours than we would in a whole year.
And of course they can hardly make WFP illegal can they!
Not to try and reopen the debate (it gets Ross's teeth gnashing if we do
) but use of ladders to work off is 'arguably' illegal already (please note the 'arguably' bit
) though as WFP becomes more and more the norm for window cleaning, I've no doubt those of us producing our pure water at home will be put on a meter (if we aren't already) and have to pay the business tariff.....though quite why you should actually pay more as a business user baffles me
If you are metered then you are paying for every drop you use anyway, costs no more to produce it you than it does for a domestic user.
Ian
