Anti-water Waste Device

Dear friends of instructables. It is now an irrefutable fact that fossil energy sources have produced and are producing an effect on nature that is altering the entire ecosystem in which we live and this is starting to have effects that are felt even where until a few years ago it could be safely said. . "... come on, it will be an exaggeration, it will not be so!" or you could say "... don't worry, there's still time ...".

 Now the signs are too evident to be taken lightly: when we see those images of the glaciers that are melting , or those images of rivers with reduced flow due to the low rainfall of this summer 2022 we are all starting to worry seriously.

 And it is from this concern, combined with one of the advice that the mayor of my neighborhood has issued to promote water saving, that this very simple realization was born.

 The Mayor's advice was: "try to recover not very dirty drain water from the sink to be able to use it to water the vegetable garden or the plants so as not to waste it but reuse it"

 So I thought about doing this simple system that makes recovery easier.

 We are at the "0" version, that is the initial prototype with all the margins for improvement that there may be, but I still wanted to publish it like this, in the pioneering spirit of which Instructables is a splendid interpreter and also because it gives the idea of ​​the urgency of the thing we are dealing with.

The things needed to make this tool are very few and very common,

 1) a funnel

 2) a rubber hose 2 ... 3 meters long, but variable from the distance from the tank to the sink

 3) a tank, in my case I used a 10-liter one

 4) a smaller tube for the vent

 5) "American" sealing tape

The realization is extremely simple: first of all, we will cut the initial part of the tube to force the funnel into it; later we will wrap with "American" cloth tape (at least, in my part it is called that ...)

 Next, we will make two holes in the tank cap. The main one is used to pass the pipe that will carry the water, the secondary one, with a smaller diameter, serves as a vent to let the air out when the water enters and not create the regurgitation effect.

To make the hose connected to the tank more stable, I made a hole in the kitchen top where I passed the hose itself, but this step is definitely optional and must be carried out with good reason and after having received permission from the competent authority in this regard ( wife, landlord, mother, husband etc ...).

Having two sinks side by side in my home, I started using the one on the right for the dirtiest uses where the water is normally drained, and the one on the left, that is the one closest to the funnel, for recovery water. There I put a temporary collection basin of almost clean water to be emptied once it is almost filled by drawing with a glass.

 This very simple and inexpensive system allows me to recover about 10 liters (a tank) of water per day and it is truly amazing how much water is wasted every day. If there is something that I have been learning since using this system it is how lightly the water tap is opened as if it were infinite and consequently I am educating myself to waste less of it.

 I hope not to have made a too trivial instructable but even if it were, I am very happy to have published it anyway, to share my and I believe, ours, passion for our poor planet.

 Hello everybody !!! Good life!!!