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Grey water on gardens
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wrote: accepting this may in fact be true, what I wonder is if the greebies eminated from me in the first place, how would eating food soaked in these greebies further harm me? If they are inside me, surely the effect would be the same once they re-enter me in food? They belong at the lower end of your digestive tract, and cause problems if they get into the upper part. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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Grey water on gardens
"Chookie" wrote in message ... In article , "George.com" wrote: accepting this may in fact be true, what I wonder is if the greebies eminated from me in the first place, how would eating food soaked in these greebies further harm me? If they are inside me, surely the effect would be the same once they re-enter me in food? 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. rob |
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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. -- ant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy |
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"ant" wrote in message ... 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%. rob |
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George.com wrote:
"ant" wrote in message ... 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. -- ant Don't try to email me; I'm borrowing the spammer du jour's addy |
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Grey water on gardens
George.com wrote:
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. With such abundant water your outlook is no doubt somewhat different from many of us. Here in Perth we are looking at building a desalinator to extract drinking water from cockburn sound. There is talk of complete bans on watering gardens. Using greywater to flush the loo is great, but wouldn't use more than a fraction of our greywater. On the subject of using greywater for flushing, I saw a neat little trick in Tokyo. The sink in the toilet drains to the cistern, so as you wash your hands the water helps refill the tank for the next flush. |
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