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Uploaded by on Jul 22, 2007

Brian shows us the grey water system in his housing complex. Shower, sink and bathtub water is collected, cleaned and reused to flush toilets in 19 units. We see a variety tanks, each one a part of the unique water filtration process. City Farmer.

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  • "Biggest use if water in a residence," is, of course, a shower. Minimum 2.5 gallons per minute. Toilets today use a max of 1.5 per flush. Pee in your sink and wash it down with a 150 ml if water.

  • Check out diy rainwater harvesting on AndrewKFletcher channel

  • The biggest use of water is the automatic washing machine. Flushing the toilet for getting rid of urine is something we do far less frequently. If it's yellow let it mellow, If it's brown flush it down is our motto.

    Washing machine water goes to a barrel a pump inside connected to hosepipe. No filtration required This water is used for all plants, washing the car, pateo and can be used for flusing the toilet also. Cost £15.00 barrel, £10 fittings, £39. pump

  • great what you are doing but this is overly complex if all you are doing is re-routing it to the toilet. if you live in a city you rarely have such a huge volume of space to house all those tanks. all you need is basic filtration - sand/gravel

  • how much water could you evaporate. using solar and bubbling air?

    what about solar distilling?

  • i pee outside, that means i only flush my toilet .6 times a day.

  • Congratulation, I am glad to see what you have done. As to rainwater harvesting, the more scientific I saw is from a prof from Belgium, unfortunately mainly only in French, but I liked so much what he wrote, that I converted all his texts into mp3 from his website and put it on my website which is "grey-water dot com" under the spinning globe between the Canadian and French flag. Thank you for the news and all the best. Paul

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