Grey Water Plumbing

This system reuses the water from the bathroom sink to flush the toilet… (which is why you will hear the water drip below the sink).

A few tips on the simple system:

Both the sink and the toilet can be used in the conventional way.
Water from the sink flows into a bucket underneath which we all keep an eye on.
If it is too full, dump some in toilet (before using sink).
When it is over 1/3 full, it is ready to be used for a flush.

4 Easy Steps -- To Flush with the water under the sink.

After using toilet, lift toilet seat to prevent splashage.
Gently but briskly pour about 1/3 (about a gallon) of the water from the bucket into the dirty water in toilet (NOT in water reservoir above), and toilet will flush automatically.
Clean up any splashage, lower toilet seat, and replace bucket under sink.
Pat yourself on the back for living responsibly and spread the word about simple but significant techniques of sustainable living like “Grey Water Recycling”.

A Few Other Things to Consider as You Use the Facilities…

It’s easier to find jewelry when you drop down the drain.
When we listen to the water drip under the sink we are reminded that 1.2 billion people, about one third of the world's population, have no access to clean water.
A child dies from a preventable waterborne illness once every 10 seconds. 76 million people will die from preventable water-related illnesses between now and 2020.
For hundreds of years water has been an important symbol for Christians – baptism, holy water… and Jesus calls himself the “Living Water”.
The world's population has tripled in the last century. Meanwhile, water use has increased sixfold, drying up rivers and ravaging about half the world's wetlands.
Jesus says in Matthew 25: “When I was thirsty you gave me something to drink… for when you did it to the least of these you did it unto me.”
World wide demand for water is doubling every 21 years. To date, in order to meet the human demand for water over 60 percent of the world's largest 227 rivers have been dammed.
The World Bank's vice president for environmentally sustainable development, is on record as stating that many of the wars of the last century (20th) were about oil, but wars of this century (21st) will be about water.
When we carry the bucket to the toilet we can remember those who walk miles every day just to get clean water.
It just doesn’t make sense to use good drinking water to wash down poop, eh?

“Let justice roll on like a mighty river, and righteousness like a never-failing stream.” --Amos 5:24

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