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Recycled Water = unlimited filtered shower water in a drought (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Montego@lemmy.world to c/offgrid

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Have you heard of a system for RV campers that lets the user take long showers using the same filtered water over & over? Has anyone heard of or used such a set up? Any recommendations?

Here's some of what I've found so far. Loopz: https://hamwells.com/en/loopz/

Overview of Our Recirculating Shower | RV Renovation Ryan & Su: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhpBTra9bXs

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[–] poVoq 2 points 1 year ago

Saves a lot of energy too, as you don't need to reheat the water as much.

In professional swimming pools it is quite common to have heat exchangers on the outlet of the showers to recover the heat, but not the water.

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41 2 points 1 year ago

No and I have no use for it in an RV however, I'm now very curious haha

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Something to note us that most of these systems are severely undersized in RV installs and require constant maintenance to use. Even with "special" soaps the particulate load is much higher than even multiple 20in big blue filter is ready for with repeat use and the phosphate levels in the water can get crazy high super fast.

A full grey water treatment system could work, but sizing for 100-200 gallons a day is way larger than most people anticipate.