RE: Save more water

["Dale Courtney" <dmcourtn@moscow.com>]

Can someone explain to me why it is illegal to plumb "grey water"
(bathtub, sink, washer, etc) directly to water the yard? 

It seems that carrying buckets of water from your tub to the yard is
fine, but to plumb it to do so is illegal. 

For the life of me, I see no reason to flush perfectly good yard water
down the sewer; then to turn around and have to water the yard with
drinking water.

Dale Courtney
Moscow, Idaho

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Hoffmann [mailto:escape@alt-escape.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 August, 2002 21:35
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Tip: Save more water
> 
> 
> I hate to interrupt all this theological debate (yeah, 
> right!) with a water 
> saving tip, but this has given me great success, so....
> 
> At any hardware store, you can buy a roll of pipe thread tape 
> for about 
> $0.89.  This stuff is used on washing machine connections so 
> that your 
> hoses aren't constantly dripping.  Well, it works great on 
> garden hoses, 
> too!  And instead of being sprayed by high-pressure leaks 
> every time you 
> turn the hose on or off, you get barely a drip, and we save 
> aquifer water 
> for future generations.  Or at least until next year.
> 
> Bob Hoffmann
> 820 S. Logan St.
> Moscow, ID  83843
> 
> Tel: 208 883-0642
>