permaculture

[Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>]

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:32:46 -0700, you wrote:

>I'm curious how a similar ball would compare containing all the biomass on 
>planet earth (humus, et. al.).
>
>...yet a lot of people piss in several gallons of potable water and flush 
>it?! how irrational.  water is so precious.
>

But it doesn't go away when you flush.... You aren't destroying it.  

In our particular case, since we have a septic tank, the water (filtered by
the leach field) returns to the water table *in our immediate area* with no
expenditure of energy.  Gravity takes it from the toilet to the septic tank
and through the leach field.  

However, I don't flush *every time* I pee.  We also have a well, and the
well water is pumped by electricity.  So I'm saving electricity in this
case, not water.  

Pat
-- Northern Pennsylvania
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'Every one of us can do something to protect and care for our planet.
We should live in such a way that makes a future possible.'
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