The legal cards are all stacked in favor of the contractors and the big guys. Makes me sick. Legal doesn't mean right. My septic tank works just fine and hopefully no neighbors decide they hate me and report me to the board of health, because it stinks to high heaven when all those beautiful, new houses, in new subdivisions have problems with their treatment plants. And supposedly, you can take a glass and fill it at the end of the system and drink it......yeah right.
Well, I have a potty chair in my room for when my feet hurt me too much in the morning for me to walk fast enough to get where I"m going and what I really want to make is a methane digestor, which I figure I can put our waste in there and then have a fuel source and compostable material to put into the garden later. As soon as I build one, I plan on getting pigs.
I don't see any reason to waste so much water flushing a toilet. My grandmother told me water is cheap, but its good to learn to conserve because if I am ever in a situation where I have to ration myself, I might suffer if I don't know how to economize on everything.
But for me, its not just the toilet.....its everything related to flooding my back yard. I make the shower water a comfy temp, wet myself, wet the towel and shut it off, soap up the towel and wash (with the water off), then I rinse off, which is pretty fast, then I towel dry, with my wash cloth, wring out that towel and then get really dry with the bath towel. I have particular ways to wash dishes as well. Start off with almost no dishwater and wash the cleanest in that, then the rinse water for those dishes, becomes more wash water for the next stuff and I'm still only trickling the water and don't even have a sink of it, until I am just about done with the real dirty stuff.
The one thing I splurge on, as far as water is concerned, is with clothes washing. I spent extra on my washing machine because I didn't want one of those Save the Earth washing machines, that use only 1/3 the water. I mean, how am I supposed to get clean clothes if I'm washing it in stew? But considering how much I conserve on the other areas of water consumption, I think I can do that.
But I only have one bathroom with a toilet right now. DH never finished the other bathroom, so its only a shower room and clothes washing station, but I'm wondering if a camping toilet would be Ok. I think you can get a gazillion flushes, before you need to empty out the tank. Not sure how the smell would be though.
I don't know if it was because the house was originally build for ONE person only, but that thing could not handle 4 people and the smell… I'm sure there are better designs and better functioning designs out there, but that experience put me off them a bit.
