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I am just curious to know if tap water and toilet water are the same. Im not interested in drinking toilet water but just want to know if there is a diffrence

2007-03-16 09:20:20 · 11 answers · asked by Veny 2 in Environment

11 answers

The water in your toilet and the tap are from the same source either a well or a water treatment plant. However, you do not have to worry about contamination because there is no way for a reversal of flow to occur and backsiphonage to happen.

2007-03-19 06:28:08 · answer #1 · answered by David B 5 · 0 0

used tap water from the bathroom and kitchen sink is called grey water and should go directly into the garden to use as irrigation and not be mixed with the sewage system because it makes the sewage bigger.

unless as a means to conserve water you connect the sink drain to the toilet sistern
and after you have had a shave or washed your hands it can flush the toiulet ,so using the water two times .

toilet water is called black water and should go in to 2 closed concrete boxes about 2 cubic meters each
divided by a wall with a hole in the bottom
the first box fills up with the toilet water ,the excrement floating on top and the water flowing into the seccond box devoid of excrement
this box has a high drain that goes into a ditch filled with rocks and cover up,and you plant trees on top ,this kind of system can handle about 5 busy toilets

and the partly filtered water irigates the trees from below

the house takes care of its waste waters in a positive and healthy manner ,not involving the outside world ,such as public drainage systems

2007-03-16 19:19:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Fresh water enters your home from one source, your water main. This is either well water or treated city water which is then directed by plumbing lines throughout your home to different places: toilet, sinks, showers, outdoor water spigots etc. The same goes for waste water, no matter where the drain is in your home it all ends up in either the city sewer or a septic tank with a leach field.

2007-03-16 09:33:06 · answer #3 · answered by Pandora 5 · 0 0

So, after you flush your toilet that water is treated at a waste water facility and then pumped back into your house and can be used as tap water?

Basically am I drinking water that used to be in my toilet?

2007-03-16 10:32:51 · answer #4 · answered by sunflowers 4 · 0 0

sounds like rust interior the water. After time, it collects interior the back of the lavatory. you are able to sleek it off and it will flush away with some flushes, just to return back with time. There ia a product on the marketplace that limits a number of this rust interior the lavatory tank. A iron/rust removing pill which you place interior the back of the lavatory/tank. do no longer enable pets to drink from the lavatory bowl in case you compromise directly to apply this. As for the clean water interior the sink, bath, etc. it ought to no longer be as clean because it form of feels. attempt working some interior the bath and placed the stopper in. a pair of inches of water interior the bath will coach you its genuine colour. same for the sink. The water might seem yellowish/orangish there too. do no longer understand why the lavatory bowl water unexpectedly all started looking discolored?? in case you're noticing no residue on your clothing after washing and no jewelry interior the bath or sink then you no longer have any issues of the rust interior the water.

2016-12-18 15:25:35 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

There is only one water supply pipe entering your home. It all comes from the same water treatment plant and pipe. Ask any dog, there is no difference.

2007-03-16 09:25:25 · answer #6 · answered by Evita Rodham Clinton 5 · 0 0

depend how your house is plumbed in my house the toilets are fed off the mains so you could in theory drink it but my old house the toilet fed from a tank in the loft with dead pidgeons floating in it at one time i aint drinking that

2007-03-16 09:26:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

They come from the same source if that's what you asking.

2007-03-16 09:23:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

ive oft wondered the same thing . seems like all the pipes are the same , dont it ?

2007-03-16 09:23:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

most are the same

2007-03-16 09:35:16 · answer #10 · answered by dumbo 3 · 0 0

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