There’s a system to help areas with severe water and rain storage keep their vegetation lush. It’s called gray water irrigation and it can help reduce lake, river, stream and ocean pollution while supplying water and nutrients to the farm land and even the yards. Rather than wastefully irrigating with clean drinking water, the gray water is more effective, efficient and excellent at reclaiming nutrients like nitrogen found in abundance in gray water.

What is gray water? It’s pretty much any water used in your home, other than from garbage disposals and toilets. That water is typically called black water and needs filtration. Black water has been used by whole cities with some debate because although the areas that do not have crops that are eaten raw, the systems are elaborate. Not to mention only some outlets are purifying the water to drinking standards.

Gray water can contain more nutrients that regular water because it contains the nitrogen or phosphorus that are in many different detergents with are excellent for most plant species! On the downside, you’ll always find sodium and chloride and some more delicate plant species might be harmed. It might mean making a few landscape changes in your yard before utilizing gray water!

The systems used for gray water differ, but their basic design is the same – the places in your house that gray water can be claimed like the washing machine, showers and tubs, bathroom/utility room sinks, and the kitchen sink are tied together and the water is collected into a into a treatment tank and then either storage in another part of the tank or sent to another tank altogether. Outside the home, the owner can access the purified water to keep their lawns and ornamental vegetation lush!

Gray water systems will lower water costs, save precious water resources and create a work for sewage treatment facilities.