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If you have a bathtub or washing machine near a window that is up-slope from a patch of yard that needs water, you can greywater easily with a minimal investment from the hardware store and household items.
NOTE: make sure you use earth-friendly cleaning products if you do this! There are a lot of good cleaners that use natural surfactants.
ALSO NOTE: In spite of this image, taken after a week of gardening and summer fun, employing greywater does NOT mean you must live in filth! (This pic was snapped just before I scrubbed with Bon Ami.) (I'm new at this.)
NOTE: make sure you use earth-friendly cleaning products if you do this! There are a lot of good cleaners that use natural surfactants.
ALSO NOTE: In spite of this image, taken after a week of gardening and summer fun, employing greywater does NOT mean you must live in filth! (This pic was snapped just before I scrubbed with Bon Ami.) (I'm new at this.)
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Signing UpStep 1Buy a hand-pump at the hardware store.
This is the $9 part. Ask for a hand pump, a suction pump, or a cheap plastic pump for about $5 at your local hardware store. Also purchase a few yards of hose that will fit on the end of the accordion-folded hose that comes attached to the pump.
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How difficult would it be for you to connect to the drain? I see the building s wood, but I don't know your plumbing.
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