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For just about any commercial or residential building, the only suitable (IMO) use for graywater would be toilets, and it's not particularly suitable for toilet
by linuxftw 3y ago
For just about any commercial or residential building, the only suitable (IMO) use for graywater would be toilets, and it's not particularly suitable for toilets with a tank, so that rules out just about all residential.
The article also uses the term 'purified' which is non-specific. All sorts of things end up in water: soaps, detergents, drain-o, medications, you name it. You can't just distill it, some chemicals are volatile. You can't just filter it, some contaminants will pass through.
On a city-wide scale, it only introduces more problems. Having pressurized gray water would require an entire new set of lines, and hopefully the people installing them don't accidentally connect the lines to the wrong distribution (it will happen inevitably).
So yes, it's a feel-good story, but it's nonsense. No way to capture the economies of scale, and the water isn't suitable for most uses.
- adrr 3y agoMy city has a grey water system that is used for landscaping irrigation. We also do toilet to tap and inject treated sewage back into the groundwater.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago> hopefully the people installing them don't accidentally connect the lines to the wrong distribution (it will happen inevitably). They can already make that mistake. And they can do that with electricity too. If you employ idiots, there is no way to be safe. > No way to capture the economies of scale Does this sentence mean anything? Does a water reservoir "capture economies of scale" in a way that purifying wastewater of aan entire city doesnt? Does building a giant canal to readistribute water?