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A good many cities do not want homeowners using gray water outside the home. However, this doesn’t make much sense because often there’s nothing wrong with that water, and it could be used on the landscaping. Many cities have a terrible time with drought issues, and we need to be thinking here more and more. Sometimes, it doesn’t seem as if the sink plumbing pipes are designed correctly to help separate out the dirty water and debris from the mostly clean gray water.
However, I would submit to you that if I went to a number of engineering students who studied fluid dynamics, we could very easily design a new pipe system under the sink which would allow the debris which is heavier to go into the city sewer system and the water which is lighter to go into a secondary pipe to be used later for landscaping outside the home. Consider if you will that 40% of the water we use is inside the home, and 60% is on the landscaping outside the home, or at least that is the national average they say. I don’t have any reason to discount those statistics, they seem about right to me.
You see, the water that we take a shower with, and most of the water that goes down to the sink in the kitchen is still good water, even though it isn’t possible for drinking anymore. A little bit of organic debris from the sink isn’t going to hurt the flower bed, nor is the shower water with a little bit of soap and shampoo going to hurt especially if you are using organic products.
What if we did this; what if we redesigned the S-Curved Pipe which is under the drain, and took some of the water off the top of the bottom of the curve, and extended the top of the curve, splitting off some of that water too? It is not too hard to picture this concept, and if it were done correctly, we wouldn’t get any clogs, and we might be able to separate out at least 50% of that water, and the rest of the water could be used to flush down any debris which was going to the pipes.
If we spend 40% of our water in the home, and we took most of the shower water, and half of the sink water, perhaps we would only spend 10% of that water – the amount that goes to the city sewer system, and the rest of it we use outside the home which could cut down the landscaping watering by 30%. What if every home did that? Someone needs to modify these pipes and consider water conservation. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.