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Is Your Wedding In White, Green?

By on June 14, 2011 in green living, GREY WATER, GREYWATER, JOJO, JOJO WATER TANKS, RAINWATER, RAINWATER HARVESTING, RAINWATER SYSTEMS, RAINWATER TANKS, RECYCLING, SOLAR ENERGY, SOLAR GEYSERS, SUSTAINABLE, sustainable living, WATER CONSERVATION, WATER SAVING, WATER SYSTEMS, WATER TANK, WATER TANK PRICES, YES SOLAR

Have you been to a wedding recently, where the bride didn’t wear white? These days, anything seems to go when it comes to weddings, and our traditionalist take on wedding attire and customs has been replaced with a much more easygoing outlook. There are a number of different reasons for this – marriages being conducted […]

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Why Harvest the Rain?

By on May 25, 2010 in rainwater harvesting

Rain water harvesting is simply collecting, storing and purifying the naturally soft and pure rainfall that falls upon your roof. Rainwater may be utilized for both potable and non-potable requirements such as drinking, cooking, bathing (potable quality), swimming pool replenishment, toilet flushing laundry (reduces detergent & bleach), landscape irrigation and livestock & animals. Rainwater harvesting […]

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Don’t Let your Swimming Pool Backwash Water Damage the Environment

By on May 11, 2010 in swimming pools, water saving tips

Used since the early 1900s, chlorine is one of the most widely produced industrial chemicals. About 10 million metric tons are manufactured in the US each year – $72 billion worth. Annually, approximately 5%, or 1.2 billion pounds of the chlorine manufactured is used for wastewater treatment and drinking water “purification.” The lethal liquid or […]

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