Grey water - water from showers, basins and washing machines.
Black water - water from toilet,dishwashers and kitchen sinks.
Grey water can be reused for gardens,flushing toilets & in washing machines.If it is used straight away, grey water can be used with little or no treatment.If it is stored for more than 24 hours, It will require treatment before use.Grey water is ideal for garden watering with appropriate precautions,using low or no sodium & phosphrous products & applying the water below surface.Treated grey water can be also reused in indoors for toilet flushing.
Blackwaters requires biological or chemical treatment before use.Treated & disinfected blackwaters can be used only outdoors and only for subsurface irrigation.
Usually our houses are built in a way that black water & grey water get mixed.To, avoid this, separate pipelines are needed to isolate the discharge of both these kinds of water.
I'm looking for a zero energy long term setting. like filter bed from natural products and pH maintaining plants etc.
but I need hundred percentage alkaline free water for my plants and toilet flush. thank you
Tinu J
Civil Engineer | Ernakulam
Grey water - water from showers, basins and washing machines. Black water - water from toilet,dishwashers and kitchen sinks. Grey water can be reused for gardens,flushing toilets & in washing machines.If it is used straight away, grey water can be used with little or no treatment.If it is stored for more than 24 hours, It will require treatment before use.Grey water is ideal for garden watering with appropriate precautions,using low or no sodium & phosphrous products & applying the water below surface.Treated grey water can be also reused in indoors for toilet flushing. Blackwaters requires biological or chemical treatment before use.Treated & disinfected blackwaters can be used only outdoors and only for subsurface irrigation. Usually our houses are built in a way that black water & grey water get mixed.To, avoid this, separate pipelines are needed to isolate the discharge of both these kinds of water.
Shelly Pinheiro
Home Owner | Thrissur
I'm looking for a zero energy long term setting. like filter bed from natural products and pH maintaining plants etc. but I need hundred percentage alkaline free water for my plants and toilet flush. thank you