If it’s brown flush it down….. but if it's yellow it stains! Please help!!

A_fiend_for_life

vl2588 wrote: »

Or put a brick in your cistern

Bricks apparently crumble and damage the pipework etc. A plastic bottle is another option.

moonrakerz

Ben84 wrote: »

Thank you for the link, it does make very interesting reading. One relevant fact I found there is that producing a single Kg of beef requires around 42,500 litres of water.

Sorry to be somewhat tardy in responding to this one, but ........

This is the sort of misleading drivel that gets an organisation that spreads it a bad name !! and unfortunately people then quote it in good faith as the gospel truth and spread it even further.

I have had a quick Google on this subject and the first two hits tell me it actually takes 100,000 litres or 155,000 litres. So we now have three huge but widely differing figures.
However if you read the "small print" on the two sites it does go on to explain how this figure is arrived at - and we end up with a figure that is actually attributable to the poor old cow of 155 or 166 litres per kilo.
The HUGE amount of the rest of the enormous figures quoted covers things like the rain that fell on the field where the grass/corn grew and the water used in the steel plant that made the raw material for the farmer's tractor and the water used in the power station that supplied the tractor factory.
This is NOT good science !!!!

This leads to the bizarre conclusion that if we didn't eat beef:
a. It wouldn't rain any more
b. Farmers wouldn't need tractors any more

vl2588

A_fiend_for_life wrote: »

Bricks apparently crumble and damage the pipework etc. A plastic bottle is another option.

Oops, sorry! I have never heard that but seems possible.