[bridger windows]

What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot

[elite mike]

tell them you use a rainwater harvesting system

[bridger windows]

Sounds good to me! Cheers

[Alistair@AWC]

You could also tell them that you use the same amount of water on the average house as 1 flush of the toilet

[bridger windows]

is that all it is!!? How many houses to a bath full do you think?

[[GQC] Tim]

You could also tell them that you use the same amount of water on the average house as 1 flush of the toilet

Works better and you do not have to lie! Seriously though, you will probably use about 20l a house, and your toilet has to be pretty antique to use 20l. Most modern toilets use a lot less.

is that all it is!!? How many houses to a bath full do you think?

Think it's about 80-100l.

[Alistair@AWC]

For the average 3 bed semi you will use around 10-15 litres on a maintenance clean, modern toilets use 8-13 litres per flush.


Tim,

Not lying just stretching the truth 

[A & J Owen Window Cleaning]

just say its only collected rain water used so i think thats recycling

[JRDEasiReach]

What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot

Theres no environmental effect using pure water, it is after all water and it will dry up

[Andy Foster]

What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot

Theres no environmental effect using pure water, it is after all water and it will dry up

I don't think they are referring to the 'after' environmental impact but the impact it has already had to get to the end of your tap.  If you CAN use rainwater then that would definitely be the best idea.

Has anyone any tips on this please?

[EZclean]

me: "it'll make its way back to the tap one day"

customers: ah! course

[AuRavelling79]

Also no detergents used and no scrims cloths using litres of water in the washing machine.

As mentioned above "I get a lot of my water from my roof" works well.

[chris@c.m.s]

me: "it'll make its way back to the tap one day"

customers: ah! course

Best answer in my opinion, water evaporates/soaks into the ground, treated effluent/waste  returned to the sea, in short cleaning with pure water has as much impact to the environment as rain does. you cant waste water its either in the sea, in the earth or in the sky falling on us.        

[[GQC] Tim]

What do you lot say to customers when they complain/ask about the amount of water used and the environmental effect etc... I need a good answer to give them as I think this would put me on my back foot

Theres no environmental effect using pure water, it is after all water and it will dry up

I beg to differ! 

What about the litres upon litres of waste water that we use to produce pure water? All down the drain, straight to the wastewater treatment plant!! Not very environmentally friendly I say.

Customers would have a heartattack if we would say that for every 1000 litres used one thousand litres goes down the drain!

[chris@c.m.s]

Quite simply in reply to that ask if there is more or less water on the planet than pre WFP. There is no such thing as waste water the earth naturally recycles it, It does however sometimes replenish the wrong areas   
 

[EZclean]

when i was at school they took us to the waste water/ sewarage works, the end result was a glass of water for us to drink. no one wanted to taste it...
the guy downed the lot 

[[GQC] Tim]

Quite simply in reply to that ask if there is more or less water on the planet than pre WFP. There is no such thing as waste water the earth naturally recycles it, It does however sometimes replenish the wrong areas   
 

No waste water? So if you drain your bath with all the detergent and muck in it, it doesn't need to be cleaned? It comes clean out of the tap? Wow. 

[chris@c.m.s]

Yes it does need to be filtered through natural or artificial means ie treatment plant  but it will always be there in some form or in transition.

[pingu]

What about all the perfectly good water that I supply the water company from my roof every time it rains...I mean I'm not allowed to charge them for that.

Yet every house does the same but the water companies have no intention of treating it seperatly but it all goes into the same 'pool' for treating.

Cheers
Dave.

[Window Washers]

For the average 3 bed semi you will use around 10-15 litres on a maintenance clean, modern toilets use 8-13 litres per flush.


Tim,

Not lying just stretching the truth 

thats just made my day