Graywater Central
Enhancing your life with water reuse
Graywater design and installation can be simpler than you might think. Understand these few key points before you build.
The two most important factors in choosing the right soap, detergent and shampoo for graywater to avoid untold damage to your soil.
More jurisdictions are loosening graywater restrictions all the time, opening the way to drought resilience. Find out how to track down the regulations where you are.
What is Graywater?
Also known as gray water, grey water, or greywater, it is lightly-used water from your home. It comes from your laundry, shower, bathtub and sinks.
Graywater vs Blackwater
Black water comes from your toilet. Some jurisdictions also classify water from the kitchen sink and dishwasher as black water, because of the higher concentration of suspended solids.
Graywater vs Recycled Water
Recycled water has been sent back through multiple levels of additional treatment. Graywater comes straight from your drains.
How to Use Graywater
With proper handling, graywater can be reused around your house to irrigate your landscape, water your food garden, and in some cases even flush your toilets and wash your laundry.
Graywater reuse is a booming frontier in drought resilience, ecological sustainability and regenerative living.
A Pattern Language
The world of graywater can seem confusing at first. Everyone talks about biodegradable, eco-friendly, natural, organic – there’s no shortage of buzzwords. How am I supposed to know which soaps to use?
And what kind of graywater system do I need? How do I build it? Which of the hundreds of YouTube videos do I need to watch, and which should I believe?
What about the legal issues??
Fortunately, when you’re working with graywater, you’re working with nature instead of against it. And just like in nature, while every specific location and situation is unique and different, there are nevertheless underlying patterns that you can discern.
Graywater Central clarifies those patterns in three distinct areas: How to Build a Graywater System, Essential Soaps for Graywater, and Legal Guidelines.
You’ll be learning to speak a Pattern Language, empowering you to thrive in any situation, anywhere.