Comments on: Water http://blog.runforoneplanet.com/?p=353 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:34:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Yvette Doucette http://blog.runforoneplanet.com/?p=353&cpage=1#comment-1358 Yvette Doucette Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:49:29 +0000 http://blog.runforoneplanet.com/?p=353#comment-1358 HI there, Thanks for doing the run, and thanks for all the info. I will be directing my two kids to this site! Meanwhile, I wanted to ask a question / pose a difficulty...I live in Charlottetown, PEI, and many if not MOST of the houses in the city are hooked up to lead pipes. When we had our water tested, the results showed lead, AND the tester indicated that we needed to "flush the system" by letting the water run for five minutes every morning!! WOW i thought, what a waste of water if every household in Charlottetown is doing this, but there is no way the City is replacing the pipes that our pipes hook up to, and we can't afford the significant price tag to replace all the pipes in our house anyway. What i do is make sure that the bathroom is used first in the morning, so water running for hands and face washing, and toilets flushed, (i figure that gets the system flushed out because the water has to run upstairs) then i run the water downstairs to rinse veggies and fruit for the kids lunch etc. a short bit, and we always use a Brita for drinking water. what do you make of this situation? are there any other solutions? I also wanted to add that as a mother of two pre-teens, despite a low flow shower head, young people like to take LONG showers, 30-40 minutes. I grew up with 5 siblings and a normal sized hot water heater, so we had short showers or someone had no hot water to shower with. I have started setting a timer, and rushing them along (which causes friction) - any tips on how to shorten the time spent that is less stressful? thanks Yvette HI there,

Thanks for doing the run, and thanks for all the info. I will be directing my two kids to this site!

Meanwhile, I wanted to ask a question / pose a difficulty…I live in Charlottetown, PEI, and many if not MOST of the houses in the city are hooked up to lead pipes. When we had our water tested, the results showed lead, AND the tester indicated that we needed to “flush the system” by letting the water run for five minutes every morning!! WOW i thought, what a waste of water if every household in Charlottetown is doing this, but there is no way the City is replacing the pipes that our pipes hook up to, and we can’t afford the significant price tag to replace all the pipes in our house anyway.

What i do is make sure that the bathroom is used first in the morning, so water running for hands and face washing, and toilets flushed, (i figure that gets the system flushed out because the water has to run upstairs) then i run the water downstairs to rinse veggies and fruit for the kids lunch etc. a short bit, and we always use a Brita for drinking water.

what do you make of this situation? are there any other solutions?

I also wanted to add that as a mother of two pre-teens, despite a low flow shower head, young people like to take LONG showers, 30-40 minutes. I grew up with 5 siblings and a normal sized hot water heater, so we had short showers or someone had no hot water to shower with. I have started setting a timer, and rushing them along (which causes friction) - any tips on how to shorten the time spent that is less stressful?

thanks
Yvette

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