Friday, February 05, 2010

Independence, Self Reliance, Self Sustenance, Self Sufficiency!

I would advise my amigos in Kingston start adopting some principles… like using gray water… In this water crisis…

The New World Order is coming with pre-paid water for you in this coming age and dawning of Aquarius…
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He who rules the pitcher rules the world…

“Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.”
Luke 22:10
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RECOMMENDED DOCUMENTARIES:

  • FLOW: For the Love Of Water
  • Blue Gold

 

The Water Cycle…

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Gray Water Cycle/System…

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I plan reuse the rinse water from my laundry machine to water the native plants, many of them edible, in my yard.

 

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Gray water, is all the wastewater from your home, excepting the toilet wastewater. The sink, shower, tub, dishwasher, and clothes washer are all gray-water sources. With a little filtering, this precious resource can be used on the landscape and returned to the water cycle without entering the public sewer first.

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Gray-water "contaminants" vary and may range from food waste to soap residue to dead skin. These are mostly great nutrients for plants, especially when filtered through mulch, but persons will need to filter or eliminate the non-great ones. Soap and detergent ingredients one ought to avoid are; sodium, chlorine, and boron (which is, alas, a major ingredient in the handy cleanser Borax). These are either immediately harmful to plants or will become so over time, as they accumulate in the soil. Hence, one will need to avoid cleaning products that contain them, or install a diverter valve in the system so that when if you use any of these harmful products, the water will run into the sewer system, not into the yard.

 

Gray-water systems basically involve adjusting plumbing so that water travels through a filtration system and into your yard or a holding tank, instead of into the sewer pipe. The more drain contaminants, the more filtering that will be necessary, in the form of screens, plants, rocks, sand, mulch, and the like. A few sources recommend starting a gray-water project with the easiest drains: the bathroom sink and tub, with their skin, hair, and soap flotsam… then moving on to the more contaminated drain of the clothes washer (…think lint!), and finally to the kitchen-sink water, which will be filled with grease (…remember high-bacteria yield).

 

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