Australia being in drought has meant a lot of people buying water tanks. I recently installed a 4000 litre tank to collect roof rain water. This filled very quickly with recent heavy rains (which fall in our area but not in dam catchment areas) but I am doing nothing with it at the moment. I have been thinking of different uses for the water. Our garden uses no water so it would have to be used in the house, but putting in special plumbing for toilet flushing, cloths washing etc etc would be costly. But the tank is near the hot water system (gas mains pressure) and that got me to thinking - why not connect it to that (via on demand pressure pump)? It would then get used in cloths washing, dish washing baths and showers with no major plumbing changes involved. No one drinks from the hot tap so contamination should not be a problem. Any thoughts?
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16 years ago