Save the enviroment, fuel frices, oil companies

American homes consume about 100 gallons of water a day –that’s almost 70% more than homes of other industrialized countries. Residential water use makes up 47 percent of the water supplied by U.S. water utilities. We can each become more environmentally friendly, and our plumbing systems are a good place to start. There are lots of ways you can save money and the environment if you just take the time, including some well-known and not-so-well-known ways.

Low-flow: Inexpensive and relatively simple to install, low-flow shower heads, faucet aerators, and toilets can reduce your home water consumption by as much as 50% (an average household can save about 7,800 gallons of water a year), making them the most effective home water conservation projects. But what you may not realize is that if you’re cutting your water consumption, that reduces the amount of water that you need to heat –cutting your electricity or natural gas (whichever your hot water heater uses) bill up to 50%.
Bottled or tap: A water filtration system attached to your faucet (or free-standing) can purify enough water to fill up more than 3,000 disposable plastic water bottles every year. Globally, 38 billion disposable plastic water bottles are thrown out every year. Cutting down on the use of these disposable bottles also reduces crude oil dependency –crude oil by-product is used in plastic water bottle manufacturing, approximately 17 million barrels of oil are used every year just to meet America's demands for these plastic water bottles. Buy a reusable bottle and fill it with water you filter yourself, you’ll save money and the environment.
Graywater (or greywater) systems:  A safe and easy way to collect and filter the water used by faucets, dishwashers, and washing machines, and reuse it for non-potable (non-drinking water) purposes --cutting back on your home's water consumption. The system recycles water, to water plants for example, reducing your use of fresh, potable water.  It also cuts down the amount of water going into your community's sewage system instead of the soil.

Leaky faucets: The steady drip of a leaky tap isn’t just annoying, it can really add up. Fixing your leaky faucets is a way to keep water and money from slipping down the drain. The average American household consumes about 90 gallons of water a day. About 12.6 gallons of that is due to faucet, toilet, and pipe leaks. Stopping this ongoing loss is as easy as calling your plumber to fix that chronic leak that you’ve been putting off. A dripping faucet can waste up to 74 gallons a day, a leaking toilet up to 200 gallons a day. Repair a leaky toilet and you can save 73,000 gallons a year.

Leaky pipes: What happens when your leaky pipes are so full of pinhole leaks or can’t be repaired and need to be replaced? A repipe, or pipe replacement, involves cutting open walls and removal of the affected pipes. Not only does this mean you’re throwing away drywall and old pipes, but you’re using new drywall and pipes, each with its own manufacturing toll on the environment.

CuraFlo’s® epoxy pipe lining is a “green”, or environmentally friendly alternative to repipe. It involves less mess and takes less time than pipe replacement. More often than not epoxy lining is more cost-effective too. Your pipes are epoxy lined through connections to your existing plumbing fixtures and valves, nearly or completely eliminating the need to cut open walls. Your pipes are cleaned out and epoxy is blown through. Your existing pipes are restored to good as new condition with at least another 50 years of service life.
Brian LeMaire is President of CuraFlo and has been in the plumbing industry since 1981. He is a qualified Journeyman plumber throughout all of Canada as well as a State registered plumbing contractor in Ohio.

Brian has been involved in all aspects of being a plumbing and heating contractor including new construction of hospitals, schools, and industrial facilities. Prior to founding CuraFlo in 1996, Brian owned and operated a very successful service & repipe business in Vancouver, British Columbia. Together with Dr. Dave Dunn is Vice President of Research and Development for CuraFlo, he coauthors PipeProblems.com –a blog that answers people’s questions about pipe problems.

The nation that creates the technology and systems that

eliminates our need for fossil fuels will be the richest and

most powerful country in the world. Americans need to wake

up. If we don’t create a technology that eliminates oil another

country will. The nation that creates the most fossil fuel free

energy will ultimately control the world’s economy by

exporting the technology everywhere. As Americans we

need to dedicate our resources to killing our dependence on

oil not drilling for more oil or fighting wars to control oil. We

need to collectively foster an educational environment that

creates the technology that will ultimately kill oil forever. 

We need to resolve to create a United States that does not use oil or coal at all for energy by

2076. We don’t need 5, 10, and 15 percent reductions, we need a 100 percent elimination of

fuels and practices that are contributing to global climate change. The only way to achieve this

goal is by dedicating our education system to the project. If we put a man on the moon in less

than ten years, we can create technology that eliminates our need for fossil fuels in 68 years. We

need to force our politicians and society towards a total elimination of the use of fossil fuels as an

energy source. We can do this by only voting for people that are committed to the total

elimination of oil.

Dedication to the elimination of the use of fossil fuels on a large scale would create jobs and

ultimately an economy that is self sufficient and has what everyone else will want. We can’t

stand by any longer we have to act now to be in front of the rest of the world on this vital issue

of our survival. If we don’t win this next race for technology we could be the new third world of

the next generation dependent on the nation that does create the technology that kills oil.