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The gubment is charging YOU too much for Water!

Seems it

Never Rains in

Southern California

Your Property

is a WATER TANK!

Or a water sponge... Swale it!

Re-contour

to CATCH not

drain water. Yard Pond!

Fill low point with mulch.

Lost:

  • $2.2 Billion
  • 17,100 Jobs
  • Many Salmon, Trout, Smelt
  • Lawns...

We can build a better future for no reason at all.

ZERO COST! Free mulch from City. Labor.

LOW TECH, LOW COST, NATURAL SOLUTIONS ARE BEST

"And then they came for the water parks... THE WATER PARKS!"

SUMMARY

50 Shades of

Grey... Wash Water

How I Learned

to give up &

Love Saving Water

(sorry, had to be done)

~22% / 1000 gal/mo for Laundry.

Laundry to mulch bed Grey Water system ~$150

No Permit in SD!

3 Way Diverter Valve at washer outlet

Emit under mulch bed

A few feet of free green!

Vacuum break

AUTOMATION

Water 'Bot

  • Uncle James needs YOU to save water!
  • Don't throw money at it, (catchment)
  • DO make your land a Swale Pond!
  • DO invest a bit in a Grey Water system
  • Automate your plant watering
  • Moisture sensing is possible, look for it
  • Solar powered automation is coming.
  • Let's work together!
  • Aquaponics is the new backyard garden
  • Grow food faster, with much less water
  • The bugs are being worked out
  • Join your local Aquaponics group

Senses soil moisture,

adjusts valve only when needed to change supply.

Low power, solar no wires

power

Problems:

-Still expensive

-Solar charger

-Fiddly

trinket

water

valve

servo

Solar Plant Moisture Monitor

Looks cool tho..

and may yet

be useful.

moisture

sensor

Reagent Robot

Using Digital Logic chips

Ultra low power, cheap $2

Red when dry, green ok

https://hackaday.io/project/4197-reagent-robot

Automates Testing of Aquarium / Aquaponics Water Quality with Reagents that Change Color.

http://sbolt.home.xs4all.nl/e-groeneVinger_schema.html

Ready to manufacture... anyone wanna make a million?

GREEN LED blinks when the plant

is ok

RED LED blinks

when the plant

is dry

Aquaponics

can produce

food with 1/10th the water needed

for traditional

farming. But a

small tank can

get wacky

quicky...

But you still

have to

water...

Rain Catchment?

So you need something to monitor water quality

24/7 and chemical sensors only last about

months and cost $$$. Hopefully this

will cost less to run and still

be reliable

Plastic, $$$, Ugly, "drop in the bucket"

Even this "free" rainwater system made from donated materials can't pay for itself.

The world needs more plastic?

www.massmind.org/techref/other/rainwater.htm

Indoor water use - About half of total

How I Learned to Love Saving Water

Even if it rained every month, where do you put that big a tank? That $7,000 tank...

...not installed.

  • DROUGHT!
  • COST$
  • CATCH?
  • GREY
  • SWALE
  • AUTOMATE

The average house uses almost 11,000 gallons a month.

Ca Single Family Water Use Efficiency Study June 2011

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