Creative Watering: Thurs 25 May 2023

[loobyloo]

(on another local expat site recently)


author: Has anyone done anything creative with their pool backwash water in order to reuse it for garden watering etc?



I have a long pipe running down the back wall off our garden, open at the end but drilled holes all the way down to water
the beds and then runs off to the grass. Bourgainvilla goes crazy as does the grass! xxxx

My backwash water is always flushed onto the lawn and thereafter waters the trees, no problems with either xxxx

Our backwash water goes straight onto the garden . Nothing died, it kept many plants alive through the summer xxxx

[loobyloo]

(on another local expat site recently)



Now that's a brilliant idea, I just randomly direct my outlet hose around garden but its too heavy to move when full of water
so might devising a permanent route for the pipe and making strategic holes in it. xxxx

we did similar thing with backwash hose but want to change for rigid pipe. Geraniums do well with the chlorine water xxxx

We water directly onto the garden and everything is happy. Little bit of chlorine kills the bugs. Never had a problem in 12 years. xxxx

[loobyloo]

(on another local expat site recently)


author: WATER SAVING TIPS...Please add yours.
If it´s yellow, let it mellow
If it´s brown, flush it down



plumb your washing machine to water your plants, have your backwash pipe flexible to water your garden and plants, keep a bucket
of pool water next to the loo so you don't have to flush - there are so many ways but these are the ones we do religiously ****

Guttering and water butts. Plus a few buckets dotted about! ****

Don't empty swimming pools unless absolutely necessary for maintenance. Keep them clean year round and vacuum to waste from time to time
which introduces fresh water bit by bit when you top up. Its a shocking waste of water to completely
refill the pool every year as many people seem to do. ****

[loobyloo]

(on another local expat site recently)


thats is true. The locals inparticular let them go green through the winter and then empty and re-fill in late Spring. Im on my 4th now that has been done like this,
but when emptied, all sorts of issues arise. Also, the police are considering sending drones to check pool that are green /empty one week and full the next !