BUNGA BRICK TODAY

Do you mean a ordinary building brick?

In the top part of my dunny?

Where the water goes?

Or you can simply install an adjustable valve in there. Water saving shower heads are an obvious choice. Using grey water to water lawns etc is another.
So is drinking your scotch without ice :))
But the one I like best is going on a 4wd holiday to dry remote areas. Imagine how much water is saved by you not being at hime. :)))))))

Hi all

Water problem is easily fixed
Ban all top load washing machines and only have front load ones
Front load use only 25% of the water that top load use
4 washes per week save 40 litres per wash = 160 litres X 52 weeks = 8320 litres per household X 4,000,000 households = 33,280,000,000 litres plus the 10 litres per person per day on toilet systen savings 80,300,000,000
Total saving 113,580,000,000 litres per year
Simple isn't it

Greenant

How about the Queen builds us some new water catchments and her and her cronies (the pollies) stops b!tchin to us about using less water.

Let's see her drop a brick in her dunny. I bet she doesn't even have the half flush option.

It's not my fault the powers that be didn't think hard enough about providing water to the masses when they raped this country.

Enough rain falls from the sky FOR US. THEY just don't use it wisely.

And salt water it good enough to wash the dunny with. The planet is 2/3 covered with that stuff. Why aren't we flushing with that?

Wow I can save 2 litres. What a crock.

YOU CAN SAVE IT ALL if YOU flushed with salt water

Wake up! you are being conned.

Hows that work with the newer 6/3 liter flush systrems?
Whole hartedly agree with the brick in the older cisterns.
Can remember this being covered on the news on channel 0 in sydney in the late 1960's. (why can I remember that but dont know what I did last week?)
Yep there has been a lot of stuffups with our dear leaders, the major problem is they wont plan anything past 18 months in the future, and we keep voteing for these dills. What if they threw an election and nobody voted?
It is rapidly approaching the time that some professional, non political and achievable inforestructure and consumption decisions were made. And they better do it soon.
Lets not mention the fact the've sold everything, trained noone, and done bugger all else except finger point and raise taxes and fines over the last 20yrs...........

Mazza,
you will probably find that a brick does not displace 2 litres of water. It may weigh 2 kg, but that does not mean it displaces 2 litres of water. Otherwise its specific gravity (density) would have to be very close to 1.

Hence a brick will sink, and not float.

read this below for interest:

The Story of Archimedes and the Crown
Sometime around 250 B.C., King Hieron of Sicily gave a jeweler gold to be formed into a crown.

When the crown was delivered the King felt that the jeweler had given him a crown that was not PURE gold. Unfortunately he had no way to prove it. weighed as much as the gold that had been given to the jeweler. The king thought foul play was afoot.

The Greek mathematician Archimedes was given the task of determining whether a craftsman had defrauded the King by replacing some of the gold in the King’s crown with silver. Archimedes thought about the problem while relaxing in a bathing pool. As he entered the pool, he noticed that water spilled over the sides of the pool. Archimedes had a moment of epiphany. He realized that the amount of water that spilled was equal in volume to the space that his body occupied.

This fact suddenly provided him with a method for differentiating a mixed silver and gold crown from a pure gold crown. Because a measure of silver occupies more space than an equivalent measure of gold, Archimedes placed the craftsman’s crown and an equivalent pure gold crown in two tubs of water. He found that more water spilled over the sides of the tub when the craftsman’s crown was submerged. It turned out that the craftsman had been defrauding the King!

Legend has it that Archimedes was so excited about his discovery that he ran naked through the streets of Sicily shouting Eureka! Eureka! (The Greek translation of “I have found it!”).

G,day TOP CAT I agree everyone together can make a difference to saving some water.We live in the bush near Margaret River and only have water tanks not mains water.We are very carefull with our water even though we get good rainfall(about a metre annually).We run our washing machine water onto the garden and do dishes in a tub in the sink and tip it on the garden also.Would it hurt people building a new house to put in even a small water tank for drinking or gardening.Just a thought.P.S.rain water tastes bloody beautiful.

They would be in "deep bleep " if the brick in the cistern resulted in only half the bricks in the bottom from being fully flushed:-)))

Lighten Up Laddie.

my place was only built a few years ago and they'd become "flush concious" and "shower concious" by then. Even the full flush on ours doesn't always do the job it's supposed to doso putting a brick in would not be a good idea. I presume other modern houses are similar.

Save more water by pi$$ing on the lawn and s h itting at work. I have trained the kids to only do no 1's on the grass and no 2's on the neigbours front lawn. We just blame it on the dog at no 15.

I have been using a 2Lt milk carton (full to the top) in the cistern for many years. Not flushing every time and even sharing a flush with the person that is about to follow your turn can help also.

A friend has a function and wedding centre with 16 duel flush cisterns in it. I disabled the full flush part due to the amount of use it gets during a function. Even if some times someone has to do a double flush, those few times makes it more water saving ALMOST every flush.

These "fully automatic timer" operations really annoy me. So much waste. They should run on a sensor type system where you activate the flush when you VACATE the actual dunny position.

The new water restrictions (sydney) due from 1 July will only see people watering for longer on the nominated days and still wasting the same amount of water. SO MANY people are watering just because it's a day they can and therefore wasting way to much because they no nothing/little about how much the plants actualy require to survive. I am a ql'fied horticulturist so I can rant about this till the cows come home.

Along with many, my industry dies without water. As soon as the new restrictions were anounced I approached all my clients to adjust all their irrigation to conform. I will now vacate the box for the next contender.

Yours passionatly
Andy