Beyond the Yuck Factor: #Cities Turn to ‘Extreme’ #Water #Recycling
#San Francisco is at the forefront of a movement to #recycle #wastewater from commercial buildings, homes, and neighborhoods and use it for toilets and landscaping. This decentralized approach, proponents say, will drive down demand in an era of increasing water scarcity. https://e360.yale.edu/features/on-site-distributed-premise-graywater-blackwater-recycling #graywater

by #JimRobbins in #MotherJones:

"'There is no reason to only use water once,' said Peter Fiske, the executive director of the National Alliance for Water Innovation, a division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley. Just as natural systems use and reuse water repeatedly in a cycle driven by the sun, he said, 'we now have technologies to enable us to process and reuse water over and over, at the scale of a city, a campus, and even an individual home.'"

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/06/cities-graywater-recycling-movement-san-francisco/

#water #conservation #recycling #technology #graywater #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #climate

While in the US, they're experimenting with beer from reused greywater (😮 ) on the back of San Francisco's requirement for new builds to include water reuse, water reuse is still barely on the UK's radar. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/may/02/recycled-wastewater-beer-epic-cleantec-san-francisco-drought-california

#waterreuse #greywater #graywater #recycledwater #beer

Our home office / homestead is becoming more resilient every year.

Last year we added a 20.000L underground rainwater storage tank + additional filters.

This year we added a 2nd broadband sat connection and hooked it up to a Uninterruptible Power Supply so we don't lose connectivity during power outages.

We also disconnected shower & washing machine from the wastewater system, and are building a reed bed #graywater filtration system so we can reuse the water for irrigation.

Bit by bit...