Archive for 'grey water'

What Is Grey Water? A Beginners Guide To Water Conservation

Posted 08 July 2008 | By getgreener | Categories: grey water, water saving appliances | 1 Comment

There are ways to save water in times of drought. One of the most common recycling methods is the use of grey water. What is grey water? Grey water is any water that goes down the drain, except for toilet water. Excess shower water, sink water, laundry water, and dish water can all be saved [...]

Greywater Diverter and Garden Irrigation System

Posted 13 March 2008 | By Luke | Categories: grey water | No Comments

Neco have a special offer on their Nylex Greywater Diverta and garden irrigations systems at the moment.  You can pick up this Nylex diverter for $495, 30% off the regular price of $699. This grey water diverter will help you conserve drinking water and help give you a green garden during water restrictions by irrigation [...]

Get Grey Water to your garden without a water tank

Posted 03 February 2008 | By Luke | Categories: grey water | No Comments

Flo-to-Go is an ingenious system for getting gray water from your shower to your garden without the need to store it in a greywater tank. Flo-to-Go utilises shower water on the garden or lawn and is compact, discrete, simple & low maintenance. FLO-to-GO is a compact and automatic fluid transfer system that helps create an [...]

Removing grease from kitchen waste water

Posted 19 December 2007 | By Luke | Categories: grey water | 1 Comment

Ewater systems has a great new oil and grease remove system for commercial kitchens. The Grease Guardian will remove grease and solids from water before it enters the sewage system, thus reducing the amount of grease and all entering into the sewage system. The Grease Guardian will help commercial kitchens reduce sewage blockages and improve [...]

Brac grey water recycling system

Posted 26 October 2007 | By Luke | Categories: grey water | 3 Comments

The Canadian design Brac Grey Water recycling system takes grey water run off from your bath, shower and laundy and stores this water for use in flushing your toilet.  Why flush perfectly clean water down the drain when you can use grey water, it’s an incredible waste of a precious resource.  IMO, These kinds of [...]

Chemical Free Electrolyzed Water Systems

Posted 22 August 2007 | By Luke | Categories: grey water, plumbing, soaps at detergents | No Comments

eWater Systems sell a range of chemical free electrolyzed water systems which can be used for cleaning and sanitizing. The ROX electrolyzed water technology can be used in food preparation to clean and sanitize food, preparation surfaces, cleaning hands and cooking equipment. The ROX water systems produce both alkaline and acidic solutions to assist in [...]

Grey Water Guerrillas – Make your own greywater system

Posted 03 June 2007 | By Luke | Categories: grey water | 2 Comments

Here’s an interesting article on an underground greywater movement promoting the re-use of greywater from the shower and laundry.  The gray water guerrillas website is dedicated to promoting the re-use of water from your shower and laundry.  Check it our for some great pointers for setting up your own greywater system at home.

Garden Safe Planet Ark Laundry Powder

Posted 10 May 2007 | By Luke | Categories: garden irrigation, grey water, soaps at detergents | 1 Comment

Planet Ark has produced a Laundry detergent that’s garden friendly.  If you’re pouring your laundry grey water water on the garden and are concerned that the high pH might and high phosphates might kil your plants, then check out this detergent from Planet Ark. Platen Arks detergent has been independently tested by Sydney Environmental and [...]

Domestic Grey and Black Water Recycling

Posted 29 April 2007 | By Luke | Categories: grey water, plumbing | No Comments

Queensland company EcoNova have developed a world first domestic grey water recycling unit. The NovaClear is designed to recycle all typical household wastewater (grey and black) to Class A+ reusable water quality – without further disinfection, such as chlorine or UV. NovaClear� produces 2.2KL of Class A+ water, 24 hours a day using its patented [...]

Bidegradable Detergents – Greywater Detergents

Posted 05 April 2007 | By Luke | Categories: grey water, soaps at detergents | No Comments

Here’s some great info on choosing detergents that are suitable for use in Grey Water systems from the SaveWater website. So far I’m yet to find a simple, but comprehensive guide to choosing a greywater friendly brand name detergent. Every Australian site I’ve come across point to the Lanfax Labs website but the information there [...]