Well, that is not the logic. The logic is that water used for drinking is vitally important, and if you use water to wash your clothes and dishes, why in the world would you be opposed wasting a little water to support your life? That said, there are ways to minimize the waste and we encourage that!

I support the argument about volume of water used. There’s precious little logic in thinking about your or my usage when our country alone has millions of users. Tell us any NEW ideas you have for water conservation.

I specialize in water treatment, but I do try and balance conservation whenever possible. OK, I’ll give you a NEW idea on water conservation: Why do some people lose their freaking minds over wasting a couple of gallons of water a day in order to purify their drinking water to maintain their health and think nothing of running their dishwashers just to keep their dishes clean? There are other ways to clean your dishes other than with water in a dishwasher, but for many contaminants there is no better method to purify water than reverse osmosis? Myself and many others value their health higher than their dishes.

this needs to be taken offline. a url of uswatersystems telling people its a good idea to dump 3 gallons in the septic for a glass of water is unacceptable. im having trouble finding words to describe how bad this is. as a few have said clean water is an undeniable requirement for mankind to continue as a life form and we already have about 7 billion people more then are planet seems to comfortably support. This artical makes it appear as the us supports wasting water, go to northern California and tell the farmers you having fancy pants drinking water is more important then civilisation continuing, as they are individuals already struggling from drought i expect you will get a nice quick educational exorsice, including one hell of an ass woopin. the example showing all drinking water being ro in one city will take the water needed to feed millions of people should q you in to the severity of this issue and how a single artical online that seems offical from its source page could in fact cause as much suffering as a country going to war. war over water is already a part of are world…..its endless. if some sales man told me some shit like this i would lose my shit. right there in public with the goal of it being as publicly witnessed as possible, and i hate being noticed in public litterly run from cameras.

Eric,

You need to get a grip on reality. Who said you have to waste 3 gallons of water for 1 glass? That is unacceptable and it is also fiction. Efficient RO systems make 4 gallons for every gallon wasted and the waste can be reused, so come on back to reality. Don’t make stuff up and don’t put words in my mouth. It doesn’t make you look smart.

This is ridiculous. These “experts” are using ridiculous arguments for wasting water. So, we are supposed to add yet another way to waste water, besides the dishwasher and the washing machine? That’s not a reasoned argument at all. Reverse osmosis should he illegal.

Ron,

Why are you so fixated on this? Do you wear jeans? Do you know that to make a pair of jeansd up to 1,800 gallonsd of water are wasted? You better go naked, dude or you are a hypocrite!

Do you drink milk? It takes up to 2,000 gallons of water to make a gallon of white milk! A loaf of bread requires about 240 gallons of water, and a pound of cheese takes about 382 gallons. So a simple cheese sandwich takes about 56 gallons of water. Throw in a small bag of potato chips at 12 gallons and you just ate about 68 gallons of water. Add some turkey and it jumps to 160 gallons!

The only argument lacking reason is yours! Give it a rest. You have no argument.

It’s 3 gallons of water wasted for every gallon used and depending on how you use it, it can be far worse than that.

Ron,

The amount of waste depends upon the system. Some are 3-1, but we have systems that waste 1 gallon for every 4 gallons made.

I too originally thought that the tone was a little flippant, but reading through these comments I get the point. Yes there is some waste, but there are ways to use the leftover and in comparison it does seem worth it. I drive a hyrbid and conserve when I can. I too thought about getting 5 gallon jugs of water while I was at store shopping , but it doesn’t seem to make sense. So I load 4 -5 gallon jugs drive home and feel like hooray I’m getting clean water and not harming environment. But if I do that couple times a month I have used more MPG carrying that load and adding to landfill. Also as mentioned if that water I’m so happy buying or refilling jugs was made from RO in the first place I’m really not helping. I think point he is making is we wash our cars in the car wash without a second thought, or some brush their teeth with water running, or taking longer showers or running water while shaving, or leaky toilet, faucet or a myriad of other ways we waste water with 0 actual benefit. In that case drinking water that is going into my body, an actual good case makes no sense to balk at, considering. I’m sure some will disagree and then go water their lawn to keep it bright green etc etc, but if nobody has a better idea or alternatives not really a point in attacking the author.

Thanks Mike,

We are always trying to conserve water, but some people just lose their minds over nothing, so I just give it back to them.

I really just wondered what the ratio was because I didn’t believe it was as high as I was told (turns out it’s higher).

We took out the RO and replaced it with an eSpring, since it uses 100% of the water, has UV technology, and has a higher clean water rating than the RO.

How do you like the warm water? How much do you have to run until it cools down? UV consumes energy too and over time, the fittings become embrittled from the heat. Watch for leaks.

Since RO removes a much larger spectrum of contaminants than any other process, there’s no way filtration can have a higher clean water rating. It’s scientifically impossible!

It’s not warm… so I’m not sure what you’re referencing. I saw online that older models had the light on all the time so that may have made warm water?

The point many are missing related to the scenario of traveling to purchase RO water is that the “store bought” RO water ALSO required 4 gallons of “waste water” to make each clean gallon. The woman in the hypothetical scenario isn’t saving any water at all.

It’s a choice of personal preference; I can’t imagine not having a system here in the AZ desert, even with the extreme need to conserve. We rely on our RO system to provide clean, safe water for consumption, ice production, and use it in the humidifiers as well. We currently divert much of the “waste” water to our landscaping, ant the native plants seem to thrive on it.