While tariffs for hot and cold water supply are rising, all kinds of water-saving technologies are gaining popularity. Since it seems to the ordinary consumer that most of the water leaves precisely from the faucet in the kitchen and in the bathroom, in shops and on the Internet offers all kinds of devices that can be screwed to the crane and, according to manufacturers and sellers, save quite a lot water.
Initially, with almost any tap, a screw-in mesh is already included in the kit, which allows you to make the flow of water uniform and remove small particles from it. The level of savings with it is almost not felt - only 5-10%. To understand which economists actually work and under what conditions, it’s enough to buy several models and, having unscrewed the valve to full, substitute a large can and detect 10 seconds.
If you unscrew the standard mesh from the tap, a little more than 2 liters will flow. About a third of the glass will be less with a conventional aerator. But declared as economical it will give water consumption a little more than a liter. A nozzle with a rotating head and the ability to switch to shower mode in both modes gives the level of a standard aerator.
Some nozzles with LEDs are declared as economical. They do not have any batteries, and they do not require charging, everything works from the built-in mini-turbine, and the color depends on the temperature of the water. Such a nozzle of the company "Watercolor" does not give the desired saving effect. And by the way, the brightness of the backlight depends on the pressure of the water.
In commercials, the valve is usually twisted to its full capacity, however, in reality, the user rarely opens the tap to the stop. Therefore, it makes sense to make a medium-pressure head and compare the effect of economists with it. For the purity of the check, it is necessary to adjust the valve for supplying water to the apartment, blocking it by 3 quarters. In this case, all the types of nozzles listed above gave the same result - about half a liter, that is, the same as without them.
Economists will work only with a sufficiently strong pressure. And we must remember that there are many other plumbing devices that spend water, so there is no question of the 50% water savings declared in the advertisement in the whole house.
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