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Recycling bath water takes muscle; Lugging gallon after gallon of the murky water to the garden was a feat until Enviro Water Boy stepped in

Posted by: Maven on May 30, 2009 at 8:07 am

From the Los Angeles Times:

Even before L.A.’s new water restrictions were scheduled to kick in, I’d been using a bucket to haul the murky bath waters from my dirt-encrusted 6-year-old’s nightly scrub-down into my garden. I was on a mission to save as much water as possible, and the 30 gallons he was defiling every night seemed like an excellent resource.

The upside is I now have a lower water bill — and a raging pair of biceps, just in time for summer! The downside: The routine is a total drag.

Well-intentioned as it was, my enthusiasm for hauling so much water, bucket by sloshy bucket, was on the wane when I heard from the Australian company Greywater Recycler International. Some genius in the land from down under had invented something called an Enviro Water Boy, which promised to recycle my bath water, a.k.a. gray water, without having to futz with any plumbing. It sounded ideal. Clearly, I needed this thing — I wanted this thing — even though I had a hard time conceiving how it would work.

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May 30, 2009 · Filed Under Recycled Water

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