Thinking about reducing water consumption?
Vicki Morrone, Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems, Michigan State University Have you ever considered recycling all that water that goes down the drain when you are showering or doing the laundry? Recycling gray water that is not potable, but not contaminated with human waste, can be used for irrigation or flushing toilets. Now if you have sandy soil with a shallow water table you should probably dismiss this idea, as the risk of ground water contamination is too high. Just remember, if you are intending to reduce resource consumption, then your gray water system should require fewer inputs then if you actually just used clean water and let the gray water drain into the system.
