Water Recycling

[MamaBear76]

In the Summer I syphon my bathwater down a hose onto our vegeatable patch and garden. It seemed to work quite well and the plants don't seem to mind the soap. Does anyone else do this?

One of my friends used to use all his 'greywater' (I think that is the term) to water his veg.

We have our own biological sewerage system, but we do not recycle the water directly for anything - it comes out drinkable and 97% pure when running effectively. But the tought of where it had just been would put me right off!

Does the biological sewerage system then pump the "clean" water back into the toilet for reflushing?

I remember as a child in living in Africa, during water restrictions, we were only allowed to flush after a "No.2" and it had to be old bathwater, which was stored in a bucket next to the toilet. It was an offence to water your gardens or car with a hose pipe! We all had to share the bathwater and I hated being the youngest because that meant I was the last one in.

LOL (in a kind way) about being 'the last one in' this is where the saying don't throw the baby out with the bathwater came from. The baby was the last one in, by which time the water was so dirty you could lose the baby in it - although my Daddy could have been making that up to tease me

No, sadly it doesn't. It pumps it out to a river, we live in a rural area which is inland but below sea level so we have amny open ditches and streams to carry surface water.