Could have done a little less weird racism and more info about alternatives to the "sad tree in island of pavement" model which is very popular in north america.

Collecting greywater is no joke. My household gave up on saving shower water to flush the toilet after a couple of weeks. At scale, I guess it's a much more complex engineering project to have 2 different plumbing systems. As opposed to just making all the water potable. But you'd still have to do some amount of cleaning and treatment. I wonder how to establish the threshold for lower standards.

[–] juniper@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My household gave up on saving shower water to flush the toilet after a couple of weeks.

That's cool. When you say you gave up, I assume this wasn't a whole redo of the house's plumbing, you just had a bucket in the shower or something that you then poured into the toilet's tank?

Would be neat to design a house to divert shower and sink grey water to toilets in an off-grid permaculture way.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Yes it was a real DIY attempt at implementing some conservation at the household level. Put a bucket/bin into the shower to try to catch splashed water. Total failure but gave some appreciation as to the challenges even at the smallest scale. I think rainwater is probably more viable if you aren't going to do much processing. (Assuming there is rain.)

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

showers on second floor, toilets on ground floor lol

[–] juniper@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

That's honestly pretty clever lol.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

it is deeply embedded in our DNA,

It's in our blood!