Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Disconnect From the Water Grid: Greywater Action”.
We are the organization greywater action. We used to be called greywater, gorillas, grey water kind of came from the term of black water, which is toilet water, and so it’s not toilet water. It’S all the other water that you kind of use in the house that isn’t the toilet water. So that’s water. From your shower, from your washing machine and from your kitchen sinks and labs. I started as a plumber and i realized how wasteful we are in building plumbing systems and how much water that we really need to save. I also came from gold country where there’s lots of dams and how the dams have affected the ecosystems and the watersheds, and when you tie all those things together, it really makes you think about how we interact with water and how we need to save it.
And so i wanted to see how i could use plumbing and actively kind of shift, how people use their water there’s a little bit of a gross out factor, because people aren’t used to like interacting with their waste but uh. Most of all, the reactions are really really positive. This is a mock-up of a washing machine and the basic concept is: whenever your washing machine drains, it’s immediately connected into a three-way valve this water right now, the direction of the pipe is going out to the yard.
If i turn the valve, the water will go back into your standpipe of your sewer and drain like it normally does. Now. If i turn the valve again to go back to gray water, it will go outside of your house and then down into your landscape, which you can then irrigate plants with the materials cost like 100 and can save up to 20, 000 gallons a year.
I haven’t watered my veggie red in months and it does all the watering for me. You .