RE: Water
- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] Water
- From: D* B*
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:56:33 -0500
- Importance: Normal
Donald,
Have you considered using your gray water? We have been on a limited well
for years here and it is amazing how much water you waste. For instance,
during the last drought we put a 5 gallon bucket under the faucet in the
bathtub. When we turn on the water in the morning and wait a minute for it
to warm up you get a lot of water in that bucket. I saved my roses (50 of
them) with water collected from the shower during the last bad drought down
here. You can also reuse the water from your washing machine, especially if
you use an environmentally friendly soap. That water kept the pine trees
(63) alive that year. When push comes to shove you can "find" water in
several places.
Dana Brown
Malevil Iris Gardens
Pres. South Plains Iris Society
Region 17, Judges Training Chairperson
AIS, MIS, ASI, RIS, TBIS
Lubbock, TX 79403
Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
d*@llano.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Eaves [d*@eastland.net]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:31 PM
To: iris-talk@Yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Water
Debi,
That was a blooper on my part! It really comes to .0065/gal with an access
fee of $26.50. So if there is no water use at all, it's $26.50 and then
goes up from there. With a 4-5 acre yard that is constantly thirsty even
without the current drought conditions, that impinges on any hope for
anything but the bread line during retirement unless I curtail use
drastically. Unfortunately, this is the third rate increase in as many
years, so use has already been curtailed to the point I have had to watch a
lot of plants and work simply die off the last several years. Talk about
survival of the fittest! May be just as well. All the reservoirs are very
low here and unless we start getting more rain than has been the case, at
some point water rationing will be a necessity. In those circumstances some
things that require more water than is available in order to survive can't
make it anyway, and I'm ahead of that misery. What I'm trying to do is come
with some alternate mean(s) of storing and having water to use.
Unfortunately, the water well attempt resulted in a dry hole. The other
methods I've come up with require an initial start-up cost that I'm not
prepared to expend at the moment. So I'm left with long-term plans that may
or may not happen, as circumstances allow.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Debi Schmitt <otisbird@fix.net>
To: iris-talk@Yahoogroups.com <iris-talk@Yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:06 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Water
>>Every gallon of water used is
>>going to cost $6.50. With an access rate of $26.50, it won't take long to
>>go bankrupt. Wish that water well I tried for hadn't been a dry hole!
>>Guess I'll start evaluating the native prickly pear when they bloom to
>>replace the iris. I think that distilled water in the grocery store might
>>be cheaper.
>
>My water out of the tape is awful here so I buy bottled water for $.69 a
>gallon. It's culligan water.
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