One way around California’s water restrictions: Recycle water from your laundry
LA TimesA man uses water from his shower in a garden in Cape Town, South Africa. Costanzo is among many Californians who, amid the state’s punishing drought, are increasingly turning to grey water — from the clothes washer, shower or bathroom sink — to keep trees and other plants hydrated. If you’re going with a basic laundry-to-landscape system, Allen said, you’ll need to move the grey water directly from your washing machine to the plants. That means a more advanced system to collect all of a home’s grey water and filter out the debris before pumping it to a new set of pipes under the lawn, she said. The state’s plumbing code dictates aspects of a grey water system’s layout, including required distances from buildings, property lines, wells, water service pipes and water mains.
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