Gray Water Recycling: Irrigate with lightly-used water that would otherwise go down your kitchen and bathroom sinks, or shower drains.
This summer, millions of southern Californians won’t be able to use drinkable water for outdoor irrigation more than once a week. But one way to avoid that? Irrigate with lightly-used water that would otherwise go down your kitchen and bathroom sinks, or shower drains.and L.A. resident Lynetta McElroy has become an expert in the practice.
At her home in Leimert Park, McElroy has made it a habit to recycle lightly-used water from the shower and the kitchen faucet by capturing it in a pail before it goes down the drain. Then, she pours that water into a two-gallon bucket. When that gets full, she pours it into a 5-gallon bucket and uses the water to irrigate the plants and garden in her yard.
“When we wash our vegetables, we don't let that water just go down the drain,” McElroy said. “We catch that water.”
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