Hello everyone welcome back to the podcast first of all I wanted to say sorry for a couple

of the audio mishaps and breaks and episodes that we've had not my intention things got

a little hectic here and some things slipped through the crack so I'm glad to be back I'm

doing a couple of solo episodes for you and today we're talking about gray water so I did

gray water installation at the epic homestead and I just want to break down you know do I think

it was worth it do I think that it makes sense for you and and why would you even do this in the

first place so let's start out by explaining what gray water is so first of all you have things

like rain water then you have the water that's coming out of your city tap that water is just

you know perfectly clean potable water as soon as you run it through something like you know

your sink your bathroom your toilet your shower anything like that it becomes used in some way

you've mixed something into it detergents you know bodily fluids whatever and it's now no longer

clean water right or it has a potential to not be clean water so that's called gray water but

some of it's called black waters is the term for it so something coming out of your kitchen sink

or certainly your toilet would be black water can't really convert that into something usable for

the garden in most cases regulations wise you really can't do much there not a lot of flexibility

but the places where there is a lot of flexibility is your laundry system and your shower system

given that I really want to get as sustainable as I can using all the resources at my disposal

especially in a climate like mine which is pretty I mean we get a lot of drought we actually

I think this year have had the least rain in 141 years through February at least I'm not sure if

that's held up as the seasons gone by but suffice to say we don't get a lot of rain so what I decided

to do was convert the laundry and the shower so let's talk about the laundry first the laundry

looks like I'll be saving about 20 gallons a week or 140 gallons per year so that's great

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