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Sink Water
A plumbing pipe that takes excess water from sinks to water the garden | |
On the one hand:
1.1 Obviously, this would allow two uses for the water you use.
1.2 This is a good idea, but it is mainly important in the west were they have water problems.
On the other hand:
2. This would be bad for the environment because chemicals will be released to the environment without
being treated.
Most probable interest of those who agree:
3.1 Change
3.2 Stopping the waist of water
3.3 Becoming independent from "the grid" of public water treatment.
Most probable interest of those who disagree:
4.1 Practicality
4.2 Preventing un-controlled release of chemicals into the top soil.
4.3 Understanding of the need for a good environment.
Opposing principles:
5.1 Trust in the individual to be responsible by not dumping harmful chemicals onto the lawn.
Common interest:
6.1 Improving the environment
6.2 Saving water
6.3 Efficient use of recourses
Apposing interest:
7.1 Change
4.4 Baked.
http://www.graywater.net/
[bungston, Apr 05 2005]
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I've thought about the same idea for bath water. Seems a shame to dump all of that perfectly good water down the drain during a drought, with my grass turning brown. Seems any soap could be pH-neutralized, then dumped onto the lawn with very little extra piping or effort. |
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Bakedness: partial
Utility: fair
Aesthetic appeal of a pluming pipe:
high
Bun: under consideration.
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I like reason to agree number 2 best - "This is a good idea" |
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Also, many places in Canada and the US use the dilutionary method to dispose of household liquid waste. I wouldn't worry too much about using it to throw on the lawn. |
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In fact, if you were forced to dump your sink water on your lawn, you might adopt more enviro-friendly shopping/detergent habits. [+] |
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Bakedness: partial (5?)
Utility: fair (7?)
Aesthetic appeal of a pluming pipe: high (8?) Maybe something like a fountain would be cool.
Bun: under consideration (basically the same as bakedness?) (5?) |
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surely this is an april fools joke |
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Clearly you need a better numbering scheme. Consider:
1.1, 1.2
2.1
etc. |
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Here, try my graywater tomatoes, no, you first. |
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my cat will only drink out of our grey water sink. it is quite a strange thing and has only happened in the last few weeks, despite varied attempts at extra water bowls near his food. he is also hiding in the shower. |
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one of my cats regularly licks at a bar of soap - not too fussy which flavour either. |
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Does water have a waist and is a pluming pipe something to do with plumage? |
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If so then I'm all for it. |
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perhaps a pluming pipe is a special fitting for ornate fountains, to throw the air high in the air like the plumage of a delightful bird. |
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I read this twice as skin water. |
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//in the west were we they have water problems// ? |
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The wild west. Where we/they ride on horses and chase us/them lawbreakers around them/their/there/thar hills. |
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(zen_tom) laughed so hard water squirted out of my, their, there, our, eyes! Wish you could get a bun! |
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I hear it's tame back east. People earn degrees and people pay them for fifteen minute sessions without blinking or snickering. I'd have to see it for myself. |
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"Stopping the waist of water" |
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Still there and I'm still for it. |
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//Maybe something like a fountain would be cool.// |
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From a university web site:
"Apply greywater directly to the soil, not through a sprinkler or any method that would allow contact with the above-ground portion of the plants." |
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