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My 4 year average is 583 gallons / month of water.
Computer and water heating are most electricity using things here, both take about the same as I don't use much of hot water. I do have own well too, but it would need some work to be done to get it to usable.
I could still reduce water usage a bit by changing to dry toilet which is in plans and to use well water for bathing and for washing frying pan etc. maybe even for drinking, but it might not provide enough water for all of that.
Dirt water well costs 100 euros to empty and it is currently emptied yearly, but that is going to change in future to some other method, maybe I can move completely independent in regards of water and waste water.
With electricity I pay almost 20€/month just from right to use it, so I do search alternatives a lot, but to store electricity for 5 months use is still too expensive and currently I pay lot less from electricity than I use than what I pay from possibility to use it.
Soon it might be also reality that there is no longer possibility to be so independent from bought services, so I try to make transition quickly so that I would have my freedom of choice. Just would need something like lottery winning...
Working from home means that I don't need to be shower fresh every day, I don't need to wash silly amount of clothes either as I don't need to wear so high number of clothing in a week, also no sweating reduces need of showering rather a lot.
I don't need to flush toilet every time, if it is liquid one can empty his bladder quite few times and use single flush, of course impossible in households that contain female members.
Cold water is really not cold until you run it for a while, so washing hands can be done with room temperature water easily, then one can plan bit of water usage and take drinking water to bigger container after dish washing etc. put container to fridge and take water from there, reduces water usage and it is not taking much of electricity either.
Why put that water into drain, with wash basin one can collect the water and use it to tomatoes etc or if soap water, then one can always put it to toilet or throw outside as long as soap is nature friendly type which anyone should use anyways as it does make many more things possible with water.
It is bit like hypermiling, to plan ahead and 'coast' (use wash basin collect water instead of draining water and taking new one, which is like accelerating and braking at traffic lights).
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