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My RO Saves Water Instead of Wasting: How to collect and reuse waste water at home?

  RO water wastage: Why it matters and how to stop throwing away hundreds of litres every month? Every time you fill a glass of water from your RO purifier, something happens in the background that most Indian households never notice. For every single glass of clean water your RO produces, it silently sends two to three glasses of water straight down the drain. That water does not get purified. It does not get stored. It simply disappears. Multiply that by every glass, every bottle, every vessel you fill each day. The numbers become deeply uncomfortable very quickly. How much water does an RO purifier actually waste? A standard household RO purifier wastes anywhere between 70 and 80 percent of the water it processes. That means for every 10 litres of water that enters your RO system, only two to three litres come out as purified drinking water. The remaining seven to eight litres flow out through the waste pipe. An average Indian household that runs its RO for regular daily use can...

How To Use RO Waste Water?

 Water wastage is a cardinal sin. If you own an RO, you too are contributing to water wastage unintentionally unless you take steps to save water, which is a scarce resource. I have been using RO waste water for: washing clothes watering plants mopping floors But keeping a bucket ready and carrying it to the washroom, balcony, and terrace was a hassle. So we decided to save every single drop of RO waste water by connecting it with a storage tank. We bought a new 100-liter storage bucket that keeps the waste water. It is connected with two pipes -  one that carries the waste water from RO one that brings out the water from the storage tank into the tap, which is used for washing utensils