Water (and space) saving toilet suite.

An extra toilet is often handy but if you are stuck for space, its often difficult to accomodate a wash hand basin in a small WC.
Well here is a very environmentally friendly solution.



At a recent green expo day in Sydney I saw a toilet which makes so much sense that you wonder why you dont already have one.

The Caroma website says, "The first toilet suite in Australia to achieve a 5-star WELS rating, the Caroma Profile™ Toilet Suite with Integrated Hand Basin provides a simple, effective way to re-use water in the bathroom. Profile™ achieves this leading water rating by using the same water twice, firstly for hand washing and then for toilet flushing."



The Caroma website says,"Profile™ is the first of its kind to feature a unique, dual-flush push button and spout arrangement that saves the water normally used when hands are washed in a separate basin. The flush cycle activation controls the flow of fresh water through the basin spout, allowing time for thorough hand washing before the same water fills the cistern tank. Award-winning Smartflush® technology is also built-in for ultra low 4.5/3L flushing."

There is a school of thought which says that ideally you should use water three times.
When hooked up to a system like Biolytix this product could exactly that by
1. Washing hands.
2. Flushing the loo, and (after going through filtration),
3. watering the garden.

Find out more at: Caroma

Long time no blog.

Its blogging season again - at least on these pages. It has been months since I posted anything about the project but thats the nature of the beast.

Our sustainable seachange will happen over several years and I intend to document our progress in this blog. But there will be months when nothing happens and I am sure there will be months when lots of things happen.

Seems like last month but was actually almost six months ago when we last visited our block of land. We planted over 30 trees, assorted fruit trees and a hedge. Last report was that 3 or 4 had died but the rest were growing so thats good news.

By the time we move we should have a variety of fruit trees, bearing delicious fruits like mango, avocado and many others.