Cost Per Litre

Dukes_of_hazard

Can anyone tell me roughly how much water costs per litre. I want to try and visualize the savings I could be making by flushing my loo fewer times and by
turning off the tap when brushing my teath etc...

Cheers

Cardew

Water charges vary greatly across the country.

Some have high standing charges and lower water/sewerage charges and others low standing charges and higher water/sewerage charges.

I live in the Severn Trent area which has low standing charges and pay 108.77p per cubic metre for water and 77.23p per cubic metre for sewerage.

So as a cubic metre is 1,000 litres I pay 0.108p per litre for water and the combined figure is 0.184p per liter - i.e. 5 litres costs just less than 1 pence.

Dukes_of_hazard

Thanks for info. Blimey I really need to think of other ways of saving money !! It could take me a while this way !!

Cheers

silvergirl

Mmm yes, but the issue may be how long does one run the tap? When I checked (yes sad I know) I ran 4 litres in 10 seconds. So if it's say 15 seconds average to run 5 litres, that's 20 litres a minute. Whilst maybe not a lot of pence (although we all know about pence and pounds taking care of selves) running the water whilst brushing teeth properly for example is maybe a bit of a habit and may not be necessary. (I only wish our local water was drinkable. It's like swallowing a swimming pool.)

CrashUK

No I think they are real saving to be made. Try out interflush, Tapmagic,

Interflush is for thr toilet saves 20% water per year so save about £100 off a £500 water bill
Cost is about £15-20 per toilet - http://www.interflush.co.uk/

Tapmagic is for your taps. Saves about 4% water per year so saves about £20 off a £500 water bill.
Cost is about £5 per tap. - http://www.tapmagic.co.uk/

Low-Flow Showerhead- Most showers use around 18 litres per min Water Saving Show Heads use about 8 litres per min so the saving 50% on water and energy.. Cost is about £15-50 Note. Dont work on electric showers.

Cardew

CrashUK wrote: »

No I think they are real saving to be made. Try out interflush, Tapmagic,

Interflush is for thr toilet saves 20% water per year so save about £100 off a £500 water bill
Cost is about £15-20 per toilet - http://www.interflush.co.uk/

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There are savings to be made if you have one of the old toilets. Of 45 million toilets in UK about 7 million are the old 13 litre type.

http://www.waterwise.org.uk/reducing_water_wastage_in_the_uk/house_and_garden/toilet_flushing_at_home.html

However for the majority have much smaller capacity.

Even if you had a 13 litre toilet and saved the claimed 6 litres every time, you would save say 1p to 1.5p a flush. With older toilets due to their design you often need a full flush to get rid of solids.

On modern toilets your savings are minimal.

Not the best internet advert I have seen!!!!!

CrashUK

Cardew wrote: »

There are savings to be made if you have one of the old toilets. Of 45 million toilets in UK about 7 million are the old 13 litre type.

http://www.waterwise.org.uk/reducing_water_wastage_in_the_uk/house_and_garden/toilet_flushing_at_home.html

However for the majority have much smaller capacity.

Even if you had a 13 litre toilet and saved the claimed 6 litres every time, you would save say 1p to 1.5p a flush. With older toilets due to their design you often need a full flush to get rid of solids.

On modern toilets your savings are minimal.

Not the best internet advert I have seen!!!!!

Its not a cistern displacement device that save x number of litres per flush. it stops the water as soon as you take your hand off handle.

cistern displacement device dont work that well as you can never do a full flush.

Cardew

CrashUK wrote: »

Its not a cistern displacement device that save x number of litres per flush. it stops the water as soon as you take your hand off handle.

cistern displacement device dont work that well as you can never do a full flush.

No I appreciate that it is not something like a 'hippo'- I have read the website.

I am just disputing how much it will save, not the principle of saving water by using the device.

CrashUK

Cardew wrote: »

No I appreciate that it is not something like a 'hippo'- I have read the website.

I am just disputing how much it will save, not the principle of saving water by using the device.

I am very happy with it. I did not know the number of people with this type of old toilets was so low. I dont know any one with the new modern toilets.. maybe most of the modern toilets are business.

I am installing every thing in my house to save money when the pay back is less then one year or less. I look in to solar hot water and solar power and wind power on the side of the house but the pay back is 15-20 year

tomstickland

A washing machine uses loads of water, so the cost per litre isn't insignifcant.

I was pretty horrified to realise that I was using around 60L per day in a flat on my own.

Sir_Alan

I laid a 500ml plastic drink bottle in the floor of the cistern. Just removed the label and filled to the brim with cold water. I didn't bother to work out how much it will save, but it cost nothing and it is a tiny saving every flush. Makes no difference to the effectiveness. I might try standing a couple of 250ml bottles in a corner, saving 1 litre per flush in all.

Before I had a meter I had replaced my manky old taps with lever types; this makes it a doddle to turn the water on and off briefly while cleaning my teeth, and must have saved a fortune already in the two years since the meter was installed.

My downstairs neighbour asked for a meter at the same time but it was not possible, as the pipe feeds my supply; she did get a compensatory reduction in her annual bill, but it's still rather higher than mine.