Benefits for the Owner
Since 1990, we’ve come to know all the factors involved with reusing water. We took those factors, both costs and benefits, and built them into an Excel spread sheet. To see how much you’ll save, enter your home’s specific data, press enter, and voila!
A ReWater® system creates numerous benefits for owners:
- Lowers Your Water Costs
- Reduces Your Wastewater Costs
- Controls Your Maintenance Expenses
- Healthier Landscapes
- Fire prevention
- Quick Return on Investment
- Qualified for Federal Funding
Lowers Your Water Costs
By reusing the good water from inside a residence in ReWater’s system, you save money every time someone showers, bathes, or does laundry. Over half of all indoor water can be reused.
That water is then used 30% – 60% more efficiently than sprinklers in ReWater’s underground drip network. As water rates rise, and they rise every year far faster than inflation, you save even more money.
Reusing water also decreases the amount of water you buy each month, which keeps you in a lower tier for the water you have to pay for.
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Reduce Your Wastewater Costs
By reusing half your indoor water, you keep that water from reaching the city’s sewage treatment plant. That reduces their energy, chemical, and O&M costs. It also reduces their discharges into the environment. Their savings can then be passed into lower sewer bills.
If your residence will be on a private wastewater disposal system, reusing half your indoor water for irrigation preserves your expensive disposal fields/pits. You’ll be happy 15-20 years from now when you don’t have to cough up $50,000 for a new disposal system.
If your home is already built with a leach field/pit and its failing, and you can somehow connect your regularly used showers and/or laundry to a system, it’ll cut 25% – 50% of your wastewater flow, which gives your leach area new life. This can keep you from having to install a very expensive new disposal system.
Return to TopControl Maintenance Expenses
Landscape maintenance costs money. The leading cost in landscape maintenance is from broken sprinkler heads. You completely eliminate broken sprinkler heads by reusing water in ReWater’s proprietary underground drip irrigation.
Drip also eliminates sprinkler over-spray, which causes stucco to disintegrate, windows to spot, and mortar between bricks to leach away. These savings add up year after year.
Unlike high-maintenance, multiple filtered, electricity intensive, storage space-consuming sewage treatment and disposal systems that other companies tie into conventional irrigation systems, a ReWater system immediately runs this water through a sand filter as it becomes available into our proprietary drip irrigation system, per irrigation programs, and automatically cleans its filter as needed based on accumulated irrigation run-time. The only regular maintenance required is to replace the sand annually.
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Healthier Landscapes
Greywater is full of nutrients that plants love. As seen in this 2019 picture of a Los Angeles apartment complex using reused water since 2010, one half of their landscape reuses water and one half uses city water.
The reused water-irrigated side is far healthier than the city-water side. Even better, by placing reused water underground at the roots of only the plants you want to irrigate, the healthier landscape has far less weeds.
Return to TopQuick Return on Investment
We live in a desert with tens of millions of people who all use this finite amount of water. Population keeps increasing, but water doesn’t, so water keeps getting more expensive. A ReWater System pays for itself quickly by providing its own water and using it extremely efficiently in an irrigation system proven to work over the long term with organic waters.
Once your system pays for itself, it returns a profit. You can use our cost/benefit analyses spreadsheet to determine how fast the system pays for itself and how much money you’ll save over the life of your home.
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A ReWater system reuses water, increases irrigation efficiency, reduces wastewater, eliminates irrigation run-off pollution, and reduces urban run-off pollution. Therefore, our systems pay for themselves extremely fast.
Our systems also remove the vast majority of surfactants (surface acting agents) found in residential wastewater. Surfactants mimic female hormones and are an insidious threat to our water supply. Putting surfactants into soil is well documented to break them down, eliminating a documented threat to our precious water resources.
In 1998-2001, ReWater went through the US EPA’s low-interest State Revolving Fund loan program application process. They determined that our very robust, cost effective, proven systems pay for themselves, their O&M, and financing, thus qualify for their matching funds and other funding programs. A city, water or wastewater district, or other special district must apply for the funding.