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No thanks, I'm not a poor animal struggling to survive during my brief existence on this world. I don't see why we should feel guilty as if we're wasting someth
by zo1 4y ago
No thanks, I'm not a poor animal struggling to survive during my brief existence on this world. I don't see why we should feel guilty as if we're wasting something. All that water goes back to the environment, hopefully through your garden instead of municipal sewage, and for those really self-conscious about energy use, most of the heat to make that shower water warm was renewable.
Municipal sewage is one of the main things we need to focus on atm. We essentially mix black water with grey water, turning the whole concoction into black water that needs to go through sewage treatment. Woohoo, government screwed us over yet again.
Instead, we should re-use grey water in the garden or at least have a separate municipal dump for grey water.
- danans 4y ago> , and for those really self-conscious about energy use, most of the heat to make that shower water warm was renewable. That's highly dependent on location and time. And even if it's renewable, it isn't necessarily cheap, and the people in this article are mostly motivated by high energy prices, not renewability.
- jpadkins 4y agocan you really use soapy water in the garden? Won't that harm bacteria and the microbiome?
- rtkwe 4y agoThe cost of repiping every house and having a separate sewer system makes that highly impractical and why basically nowhere has done grey water usage on a large scale. It's mostly relegated to single home or personal use because of that, you need a system designed from the ground up to handle grey black separation.