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How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?

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233 points Xcelerate | 6 comments | 04 Sep 18 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.862s | source | bottom
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rb666 ◴[04 Sep 18 04:15 UTC] No.17906594[source]▶
"And toddlers are great at rinsing dishes before putting them into the dishwasher."

Don't teach them kids to waste water rinsing dishes! The dishwasher works most efficiently if chunks of food are removed (scrape into trash), but not rinsed.

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1. tomp ◴[04 Sep 18 07:28 UTC] No.17907249[source]▶
Water is literally the easiest thing to recycle.
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2. bigbugbag ◴[04 Sep 18 08:07 UTC] No.17907411[source]▶
would be nice if true but turning waste water into drinking water is actually among the most difficult things and requires a very significant amount of high tech to achieve.

drinking water is a scarce resource and around 98% of use is not drinking but turning it into waste water and sewage.

source: veolia (world leader in water services).

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3. bryanrasmussen ◴[04 Sep 18 08:44 UTC] No.17907566[source]▶
Air.
4. tomp ◴[04 Sep 18 08:49 UTC] No.17907584[source]▶
Do you have an actual source (i.e. a document/web page)? I always thought it's just a matter of distilling it, filtering it, and/or doing some reverse osmosis (which is indeed technologically non-trivial, but it's quite established tech).
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5. adrianN ◴[04 Sep 18 09:14 UTC] No.17907677[source]▶
Whether drinking water is a scarce resource or not depends on where you life. In many parts of the world saving water makes zero sense, because the sewers need a certain amount of water to prevent clogging. If people save too much the water company has to flush the pipes.
6. roel_v ◴[04 Sep 18 09:27 UTC] No.17907725{3}[source]▶
"Just" a matter of distilling it? Have you ever looked at the sheer amount of water entering and leaving a water cleaning plant? It's not a matter of having the technology, but of doing it at scale.