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What
are the
savings to Planet and Pocket,
through
installing an Oxygenics®
eco-Showerhead in your home?
If you are currently using a showerhead that is
like the Niagara Falls
(click
here to find out how
to measure your shower's flow rate), then you
can make a huge difference to both your pocket
and the planet for minimal effort.
A family of
four, each
showering
once a day for
6 minutes, will save the
following: |
-
R4000 at current
electricity and water rates
- Over
2 megaWatt
hours of electricity, enough
to power the average South African home for
6 months
-
90 000 litres
of
water, enough to fill 3 swimming pools,
which is also 90 000 litres that is not
going to our already overflowing water
treatment plants
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Over
2 tons of carbon
emissions, which is what you would save if
you didn't drive your car from January to
August
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How does this compare to other energy
saving measures?
We enthusiastically encourage
everyone who can afford it, to
make use of SA's abundant
sunshine and install a solar
geyser.
We want to point out , however,
that a 2 square meter solar
geyser panel on your roof
collecting about 7 kWatt hours
(units) of electricity per day,
will cost you over
R15 000.
Replacing
an 18 litre per minute (LPM) showerhead with
Oxygenics at 8 LPM will |
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save
almost the same amount of
electricity , but could cost you
less than R200!! Up to
75 times
more cost effective.
Your showerhead will be
paid off
in about
3 weeks.
And there is also the bonus of
the
90 000 litres
of water saved.
So, while we all need to do
everything we can to make a
difference, why not start with
the
simple affordable things - the
"reduce" part of reduce -
reuse - recycle
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Click
here
for simple instructions on how to measure your shower
flow rate
Click
here to estimate what your savings could be.
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Click
here for the 'Rule of Thumb check' to find out
if your home is suitable for a water efficient showerhead.
Click here for
details of our
'SA
EnviroChallenge',
the goal being to achieve the installation of
500 000 water saving showerheads across South Africa.
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Electricity
and
Water
costs
to
consumer
(Rand)
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R
633
316 |
Carbon
emissions
(tons)
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529 |
Equivalent
number
of
cars
permanently
taken
off
the
road
equal
to
this
amount
of
saved
CO2
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151 |
Electricity
(kiloWatt
hours)
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585
500 |
Number
of
average
SA
homes
that
could
be
powered
with
this
saved
electricity
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134 |
Water
(litres)
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17
860
678 |
Number
of
people
that
this
water
would
supply,
with
their
officially
estimated
annual
water
requirement
(@250
litres
per
person
per
day)
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196 |
Coal
(tonnes)
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295 |
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*
last
calculated
October
2009 |
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Some of our clients working with
Eternally Solar and Oxygenics SA to reduce
South Africa's resource
consumption
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