In an attempt to conserve and salvage the most water possible, here is another solution. This toilet from Caroma USA is a high-efficiency dual-flush toilet. It has two buttons, one that flushes 1.6 gpf, the other 0.8 gpf. According to Dwell.com, the toilet costs about $500.
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If you are building your rainwater harvesting system from scratch and you want to be able to drink the water, NSF has drinking water system components that are certified for the public water supply…these are updated everyday.
Catchment systems…
http://www.nsf.org/Certified/Protocols/Listings.asp?TradeName=&Standard=P151
If you checked out Water House from the GRC, you could see that there are various ways to keep your water house afloat. The seemingly cheapest way is to build your home on a concrete pontoon, instead of drilling foundations underwater. Solent Marine is a manufacturer that does modular systems, but has also done specialist work for homes. Apparently they have just developed a pontoon system that glows in the dark, so you never lose you footing. Aquabase Construction, a UK-based design and manufacturing company, has done a lot of work for floating homes, using concrete pontoons and floating ferro-cement structures. One of their larger structures is a five-bedroom home on the River Thames.
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