George.com wrote:
"ant" wrote in message
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George.com wrote:
"Chookie" wrote in message

They belong at the lower end of your digestive tract, and cause
problems if they get into the upper part.

I will defer to your superior knowledge on this. Best way I
think, in an urban area at least, to use grey water is to use it
a second time around to flush the toilet.

When my tank got very low a few years back, that's exactly what I
did. I put tubs in the shower to get the water, then put that water
into the cistern.

running slap bang in the centre of hamilton is a big river that is
never liable to run dry from which the city draws all its water. The
major constraint on water usage is actually capacity issues of
drawing out and treating drinking water, rather than low flows. Major
upgrades of treatment stations are needed every so many years to keep
pace with growing demand. Given such a scenario, it strikes me the
best way to dramatically conserve water is not to put grey water out
on to gardens but to use it twice over through the house with a low
flush bog.

Alternately a compost toilet and rainwater for drinking/watering the
garden with grey water out in to the garden. A closed cycle like that
is long term sustainably desirable. The reflow through the bog idea
perhaps more straight forward and likely to reduce water usage in our
city by around 30-40%.

My water got used 3 times actually. The fresh stuff was my shower, then that
went into the toilet cistern. Which all goes into a bio-cycle-type system,
which then comes out as garden irrigation water.

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