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What a waste to flush toilets with it! But seriously, isn’t that slow and inefficient? Or if not, I shudder to think what it must have cost! We have a RO system under the kitchen sink, and it can only deliver a couple gallons at a time before running down to a trickle.

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17strings! Glad to see you, I’ve been so busy my lurking has been sparse here.

Yes it seems like a waste, but the quality of our well water is so horrible (it all is around here) all water coming into the house must be filtered then minerals added to it. Basically a small water treatment plant.

The RO filter is 4’ long. Super high pressure pump to push the water through it, then it sits in the clean water tank. When the tank level gets low, the high pressure pump kicks on and pushes more water thru the membrane till the tank is full again. Takes about 15 minutes for it to fill.

Way more waste water than keep water, about 3 to 1 ratio. The waste water is piped to water a few trees.

Outside hose and sprinklers use non RO straight from the well, and I have one hose bib for the RO which I’ll use sparingly to wash the cars and motorcycles, the water is that bad, you can’t even wash the car with it lol.

Aha, I know exactly of what you speak! When we moved into our house back in ‘99, it had the same thing. Had it stayed that way, we might have also considered other options. It was truly obnoxious and smelly water that left the sinks and tubs yellow, even with the mini treatment plant outside, which stained the area around it dark purple. But fortune smiled on us, and our neighborhood was scheduled for a city water hookup. I think that happened in around 2003-ish. We still use the well to water the grass, though, and are envied by people in neighborhoods that have had city water all along and who don’t have that option. Now I only wish they would put in city sewage lines, too, but that ain’t gonna happen!