Originally Posted by
bombermwc
I can see the point in that, but also in what gjl is saying.
Now i have only rarely in my entire life, seen a hydrant opened for "maintenance" like that. I can really only think of twice that i've seen it. So do we know that it happens all that often? But either way, i think maybe that's a place where we could have someone look at that and create something to help solve that problem. Hook that hydrant up to some sort of truck that's able to handle water at that pressure (like a fire truck can) and filter out the crap and then be able to feed the clean water back in to the system. That's a gross oversimplification, but it's only done the way it is today, because someone hasn't come up with a way to cycle it back.....yet. So that, in my view, is a GREAT example of someone seeing a problem and raising awareness to help solve it.
I would also say that if you have a neighborhood with older leaking toilets, you would be astounded at the amount of water that ends up flowing through them. That water cycles back through water treatment so it's not fully lost, but as mentioned before, there are resources spent unnecessarily.
What i think would be really cool, is if there was a good productive way to collect that storm water runoff and efficient process it for storage. Even if its non-potable. We haven't gotten there yet, but having that secondary non-potable water infrastructure for things like sprinklers would go a long way to conserving things.
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