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[Bronx173]

Is the flow to the water being waisted always faster then the clean water being produced?

 

[Wolverine57]

Yes that is correct!

 

[Bronx173]

thanks!

 

[JimmyR1rider]

A lot faster like 3 to 1

 

[fcamargo6thave]

sorry for hijacking your thread is there any rodi unit that will not waste as much water?

 

[reefman]

more like 5 or 6 to 1. especially in the winter.

 

[cono]

if you go to one of the venders like air water and ice there is a part that shuts the waste water when ro water is not needed

 

[reefman]

if you go to one of the venders like air water and ice there is a part that shuts the waste water when ro water is not needed

?

 

[bacalao]

I heard that a Booster pump may increase how much actual pure water you produce in relation to the water you waste but I have yet to try it. Its funny that in trying to create your own little ecosystem you end up being so environmentally unfriendly.

 

[JimmyR1rider]

From what I was always told in the last year the booster pumps only help to bring the water pressure to the unit up to help it perform to what its rated to do. It needs at least 60-70 psi if you dont have that it wont perform well at all. But thats all a booster will do for you.

 

[SWITCH420]

i dont use rodi so i dont know jack about them.but y does it waste so much water???

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Because the water is forced through the membranes that filter out particles I guess youd call em- impurities that wont fit through the membranes- what water is rejected because of the impurities is put out as waste water

 

[SWITCH420]

ok thanks just seems like a lot of waste water.can u do anything "good" with the waste water?ruffly say making 50 gallons of rodi how many gallons of waste water thanks

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Am not sure what can be done with it I dont think it can be made into all ro water though I would think it would get rejected again if ran through an ro unit.

 

[mcnuggget]

ro/di r such a waste of water, i cant believe y they cant invent something to stop all that wasted water.

 

[Imbarrie]

If you redirected it back through the unit, your filters would probably degrade much faster.

 

[SWITCH420]

Its funny that in trying to create your own little ecosystem you end up being so environmentally unfriendly.

agreed seems like sooooooo much waste water is not a good thing. has 2 be a better way or something.i want to upgrade to rodi.i get algae outbreaks every so often after 2-3 years im getting mad when it happens now.but i dont want to go wasting so much water any other way????thanks

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Guys lets not blow our waste water from ro units out of proportion. Were chump change when it comes to waste water- am a NYC firefighter the city has us turn on hydrants in the summer for kids once its over 95- the ones we do we put a sprinkler cap on the outlet and we turn it on just enough to wet them down and we go back 3 hours later or so to turn em off-BUT all the hydrants that the residents turn on themselves with pipe wrenches- and they turn on hundreds across the city, is why you hear the news on super hot days telling residents to shut them off because it makes the ones we have to use at a fire down the road not have enough pressure to do our job- they turn them on full blast a hydrant in the city is capable of flowing right around 1000- 2000 gallons a minute depending on the size of the main.......

Times that by lets go low at 120 hydrants throughout the 5 boros- for 8 hours- on a small main- so well say 1000 gallons a minute- in those 8 hours each hydrant wasted 480,000 gallons of water- times that by 120!- yes it goes back into the sewer system and gets recycled but so does the water we "waste" from our ro units. It goes back into the system to get treated and recycled.

So for me to waste 60 gallons to make 20 that I use? I dont feel so bad- AND this waste is only what I know in my small world of the FDNY I can only imagine how much water is wasted that the other entities throughout the city and state know about that we dont.

 

[SWITCH420]

well that puts it a better prospective.when u think of it like that thanks

 

[JimmyR1rider]

No prob- I am not a proponent of waste either but after seeing it on that level and having to be the idiot that has to get off a rig 30 times a day as we run into each hydrant they turned on I realize how much waste there is lol