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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Treat your wastewater at home as a suggestion

photocredit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki
United States postal stamp advocating water conservation.
  Note: This is only a suggestion for a household or community who does it at home in a regular basis. If not, just find ways water used in the laundry and kitchen to reuse water.
Treat your wastewater at home:

Generally speaking, all that water that trickles down the drain after you use it can actually be a boon for the garden. Commonly referred to as wastewater (or blackwater and greywater), leftover water from the bathroom, kitchen and laundry is mixed with detergents, oil and dirt and is generally not appropriate for use in the garden in its waste form. However, with proper filtering and treatment it can be highly beneficial for crops.
In a broad sense, blackwater can defined as wastewater that originates from toilets and bathrooms containing human waste and urine. This water is highly contaminated and should be treated as sewage. Greywater is wastewater from sinks, washing machines, showers and bathtubs. It contains far less contaminants than blackwater and can be treated via various at-home filtration techniques for use in your backyard. Exact defintions of blackwater and greywater vary and it would be worthwhile checking with your local authority to determine exactly which categories your wastewater falls into.
Sound complicated? It’s actually simpler than you think and your set up doesn’t need to be high-tech. Researchers in Kolkata tested a variety of water filtration systems and found that even the most poorly performing ones still treated water to levels acceptable for use in the garden, while the video below (taken in Bangalore) breaks it down very neatly.
credit/source: https://en.reset.org/act/save-water-reduce-your-water-footprint?gclid=CjwKEAiAz4XFBRCW87vj6-28uFMSJAAHeGZbcI4CY8CTf-G7lADDfP234oaAw9l2N5MX_SaD1K2nfRoCPIfw_wcB
MY Note:  Don't use the toilet as an ashtray or wastebasket.
Every time you flush a cigarette butt, facial tissue or other small bit of trash, five to seven gallons of water is wasted and can make your toilet clog. If that happen
 it will give you a big headache for declogging worse repair.

Just click the a link in youtube.com a video idea for Treating kitchen waste water for reuse or for a community based purpose:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joVL70wtLAs

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