Simple Grey Water Gardening Hack

An easy to implement grey water garden setup.

You'll need:

A rubber water reclaimer funnel (optional, but recommended)
Several lengths of hose
A large deep bucket (I used a kitchen garbage bin)
An immersion pump, with a float switch
A large storage vessel
A table (or similar support)
Rubber gloves
Sticky tape
Polypipe
Wire

Pliers
Screwdriver
A needle
A hacksaw

Step 1 Get the water out

This can be more difficult than it sounds, depending on how your bathroom plumbing is set up on the outside. I have a small PVC elbow joint with a cap, that is essentially concreted in. Nothing moving at all. I first experimented with just shoving a length of hose into the PVC pipe, which worked but wasn't very efficient. Amazingly, I found a rubber funnel at the hardware store just like I'd imagined I'd need (although I'd never heard of or seen one before). You just scrunch the funnel up and shove it into the hole in the PVC elbow joint (a flat screwdriver helps) until its in the horizontal top part of the pipe, then attach a hose to the end. Perfect.

Comments

[gemtree]

I am so with you on that no worries sentiment. We have had water rationing and several trees died along with many smaller plants.

[fegundez1]

here in the states you can get a cheap sump pump from big lots to do the pumping,also the hardware sells an adaptor different sizes of course made out of rubber that can go between different types of pipe without being glued etc just use the straps included,they usually go for around3 dollars. I built something lie this except i put little spray fittings for drip irrigation harbour freight has the hose and all fittings now what to grow?