What do you do with your RODI waste water?

Vernon Ebron · Mar 13, 2020

Share your wast water with neighbors that can find a need for your wast water, a good way to help grow the community & make new friends.

fishguy242 · Mar 13, 2020

Buckeye Hydro said:
If you give me that number I can convert it.

will do ,i don't think i have a gh test though,lol

Buckeye Hydro · Mar 13, 2020

Just call your local water utility and ask them for your "Total Hardness"

Pickwun · Mar 13, 2020

Put it in bottles and sell "Life Enhancing Mineral Water".

X-37B · Mar 13, 2020

fishguy242 said:
will do ,i don't think i have a gh test though,lol

Pickwun said:
Put it in bottles and sell "Life Enhancing Mineral Water".

Sounds good! I drink mine lots of minerals lol.
Actualy it just goes down the drain in the sink located in the garage.
I would need storage to do anything like summer watering but just dont have the space.
Already have 2 55gal drums for storage water in the garage

Tuffyyyyy · Mar 13, 2020

So for those of you watering plants, are you going directly to your garden, or pitting it into drums that you then use for watering?

vetteguy53081 · Mar 15, 2020

House plants and water for my daughter's cat

rozart · Mar 15, 2020

Like A lot of people said Down the drain because the waste water usually just ends up being problematic.

fishguy242 · Mar 15, 2020

vetteguy53081 said:
House plants and water for my daughter's cat

i asked several posts back about dogs ,most were against ,but def doing laundry w now!!

Paul B · Mar 15, 2020

It is called "waste water" so I waste it.

vessxpress1 · Mar 15, 2020

It's really gotta depend on where you live, the climate there, and the soil you have. Right now I waste mine but I've often thought about re-purposing it. Maybe a rain barrel outside. Where I live water is never an issue. I can remember one drought year and it wasn't that big of a deal.
Anymore, we deal with too much rain most of the time and the entire neighborhood turns into a swamp. The water doesn't drain through the soil well here and the ground is often saturated for weeks. I'd have to use a barrel to control when the water was going out to the plants. I keep a garden and have some blueberry bushes as well that could probably use it, if controlled. But then in the winter it would freeze. I'm sure there are places you could run waste water outside year round and there'd be no need to do anything.

robbyg · Mar 15, 2020

Mine goes into the garden bed along with the AC drip lines. More than enough water to keep one row of the garden bed happy.

vetteguy53081 · Mar 15, 2020

fishguy242 said:
i asked several posts back about dogs ,most were against ,but def doing laundry w now!!

the water for cat goes into a Brita filter jug and is purified again

Salty Lemon · Mar 20, 2020

Bleigh said:
I currently make my RODI water in my master bath. I accidentally closed the plug while making water. It wasn't closed for long. But I was shocked by how much waste water was in the tub. I hate that I'm wasting so much water. I know that I can get a more efficient RODI machine. I'm looking at putting in a pool next fall. I'm considering sending the waster water from the RODI machine to it. So that leads me to my question.

Has anyone found a use for the RODI waster water and if so, what is it?

This is months late, but I thought I would jump in. I live in Arizona and so I'm not really dealing with freezing temperatures here. But we hooked our RODI up with our irrigation system. The wastewater is used to water the citrus trees. It works great.

JakeAndAmanda · Jan 15, 2022

Could you capture rain water in a barrel, pump it through your rodi unit, use another pump through your uv and into you mixing tank? Any waste should be able to be used on plants as it would already be fairly clean to start with aside from the normal ick on your roof and in your gutters.

jebflow · Jul 29, 2022

Bleigh said:
I currently make my RODI water in my master bath. I accidentally closed the plug while making water. It wasn't closed for long. But I was shocked by how much waste water was in the tub. I hate that I'm wasting so much water. I know that I can get a more efficient RODI machine. I'm looking at putting in a pool next fall. I'm considering sending the waster water from the RODI machine to it. So that leads me to my question.

Has anyone found a use for the RODI waster water and if so, what is it?

I use dump the waste water into my washing machine by 5 gallons at a time. It’s close to a super load by the time I get the 5 gallons of RODI I was after