The Healthy House System.

On-site water harvesting and water re-use can change the “Concrete Jungle” into the “Urban Rain Forest.”

Water infrastructure in cities is typically done centrally. Drinking water supply is developed in one place and transported over a wide area. Waste water is transported many miles through expensive gravity sewers, often back to the same lake or river that provides drinking water. Local sources of water are wasted as untrustworthy “Storm water” though yet another system of pipes and sewers. In summary, conventional infrastructure requires huge resources to build and maintain and expends huge energies for water and waste treatment and to move water around. We have divorced ourselves from nature, and particularly the water cycle, at great cost.

Eventually, the places we live and work must join the natural world, or suffer the consequences.

Advances in small scale biological filtration make on-site water recycling for non-potable uses such as flushing toilets or irrigation practical. Such systems can reduce the water environment footprint of the home or building served so far that it matches the land it occupies, a kind of “net-zero” for water. Remarkably, it is cheaper and safer overall than the way we do it now. However, the costs of our current approach are spread out, between land developers, governments and home or building owners and others, making it a systemic problem rather than simply an economic or public health problem. Further there is significant regulatory resistance to such concepts, occasional abuse of public health standards by industries and land developers have made regulators suspicious of such schemes. Finally, in some places, water shortages are causing municipalities to create massive water reclamation systems.

The Healthy House System is a Water Treatment System, capable of reclaiming water from sewage.

At this website, you can learn about the system and explore information about the Toronto Demonstration site.

News

In the media

Rolf Paloheimo interviewed on the Business News Network

Toronto Healthy House profiled in the Toronto Star

Videos now on the site.

This video explains and demonstrates the Healthy House Composter, the composter has been operating for a year. Patent Pending

The new Healthy House Composter has an older video (in new window) you can watch to understand how it functions. The Composter is patent pending.

The press section now has video clips from documentaries about the Healthy House System in quicktime format.

Charts and data updated every ten minutes.

The Demo site charts are updated live from the site every ten minutes on the charts page.
The Demo site data can be downloaded on the Data page.