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By: whole house water filtration systems

whole house water filtration systems — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:39:19 +0000

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By: The Bottled Water Conspiracy and the Survivor Chili Tree – 360° Energy Diet

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:09:45 +0000

[...] is also another possibility, which is to water plants with greywater (water from your shower, dish washing, hand [...]

By: Rüya Tabirleri

Rüya Tabirleri — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:11:17 +0000

Thank you comments.

By: Sheeks

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By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:07:19 +0000

i was just wondering what kinds of plants would be most likely to handle grey water. i ask because im doin a project on it and im a little stumped on wut kinds of plants to use

By: Chastity

Chastity — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:23:02 +0000

I share in your journey to a greener lifestyle. I started my journey a few months ago. It is sometimes hard to break old habits but worth the results. Its great to hear of others making small but significant changes that lead to greater ones. Keeps me on the right track.;-)

By: Annie D.

Annie D. — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:27:32 +0000

I have been working on greywater reuse projects for about eight years now. I have eaten from gardens watered solely on greywater and rainwater collected from the roof. I have hooked up bathroom sinks to drain into the toilet tank. I have had a lot of experience finding soaps that biodegrade easily and don’t have a lot of sulfites, so they don’t build up in the soil and eventually destroy it.

My friends have a website with instructions for both simple and more complicated projects at: http://www.greywaterguerrillas.com

Guerrillas is a joke but not–a lot of cities haven’t gotten the idea yet, so there’s no code written for these things. This doesn’t mean they’re a bad idea or that you’ll get caught, simply that they’re not withing the bounds of plumbing law. Check it out!

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:50:17 +0000

I am not calling you a liar, Julie, but I am expressing amazement that watering your yard with greywater produced a “fantastically thick, lush and green” lawn within a month. You don’t mention putting down grass seed. I’ve seeded and sodded and watered for years and still my lawn looked awful.

No, I’m not a lawn nut. I’ve never used pesticides, and I’ve beheaded and uprooted hundreds of dandelions and other weeds by hand. (I also grow veggies most years.) But this summer I finally got so tired of the lawn that I dug it all up and planted native plants and filled in around them with mulch.

I appreciate all these comments on greywater and although I haven’t used greywater much, it sounds like a good idea no matter what kind of lawn or garden I have.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:58:38 +0000

I bought a couple of grey water hoses from Bunnings Hardware Store and connected them to my washing machine, and watered my back yard, which had a non-existent lawn, but within one month, the lawn has grown and its fantastically thick, lush and green, grey washing water works great and I feel very grateful & unwasteful.
I added another hose and also did this to the front yard, it’s coming along great considering, it use to be just dirt. I now swear by grey-water for my lawn, but havent tried on plants or trees though.

By: The spectacle of a ecological stuntmen : Division Duplex

The spectacle of a ecological stuntmen : Division Duplex — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:07:31 +0000

[...] find inspiration from Thoreau, Ran Prieur, Path to Freedom, Colin and Michelle Beavin, Greenpa, and Vanessa. All of our journeys are different, yet I am buoyed by a common dream, a common vision – a common [...]