If you're local to the Bay Area, you can learn how to reuse household water by taking classes and workshops from the Greywater Alliance. Today, I learned about Laundry-to-Landscape, the simplest form of greywater reuse that involves piping water from your clothes washer to drip irrigation tubes in the backyard.
I'm chomping at the bit to put one into my place. Displacing 180 gallons of wash water each week from the sewer will save us money, and also cut down on water to irrigate our young fruit trees. Very tidy.
Now I just need to run 100 feet of PVC pipe around the back of my building and out to the back of the lot. My yard slopes toward the house, so unless we want to tax the pump on the washing machine to deliver it uphill, we'll need to set it up to work with gravity. Now I just need to find a moonless night to drill holes into the fence we share with the neighbors to support the pipes.
Another tidbit: Read in last week's NY Times that you can make cheese using a pillowcase and couple gallons of milk. So looking forward to an evening's entertainment in May of sitting around drinking and making cheese.
Drip, drip, drip.
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