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Saving Air Conditioner water ????
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Posted by
MelodyML 9 FL Gulf Coast (
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Fri, Oct 11, 02 at 10:13
| We are getting ready to move to a house that has a hose coming out of the AC unit, heading downhill (slightly)and water just running into the ground (pure sand). Any ideas of how to puddle or collect this water. Here we use our AC's at least 6 months out of the year. Alot of water wasted. Thanks for the help and ideas. |
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RE: Saving Air Conditioner water ????
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| I collected and used my AC drip water this summer. I had it run into buckets (either 2 gallon or 5 gallon as these were window ACs). You might want to consider a half-barrel or 55-gallon (eg., rain barrel) for storage and later re-use. |
RE: Saving Air Conditioner water ????
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| My mom saves hers. I'm not sure how her unit's set up, but she gets a lot of water from the AC and uses it on the plants. I gather it from my dehumidifier and use grey water when needed. |
RE: Saving Air Conditioner water ????
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| Probably OK, but desert dwellers with evaporative coolers should not use runoff...it's way too salty. More modern evporative coolers have a flush device to reduce salt on the cooling pads, but even that water is would need to be diluted. |
RE: Saving Air Conditioner water ????
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| Crumpet, just curious, why is runoff from evaporative coolers salty? Where does the salt come from? |
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