Water recycling?

Question

Whats the best way of recycling home waste water from the bathroom, wash basins and kitchen for re-use and reduce wastage?

Answer 1

True water recycling is still a fantasy, but water treatment is now commonly use in cities and communities as well as factories and other industries.  The major concern to water recycling is the chemical content of the water waste, you have to separate chemical compound like alkali, acids, oil, heavy metals, etc from the water, which is a very expensive and tedious process.

Alvin

Answer 2

It is must keeping balance of water on Land and Sea. Thus maintain the sea level.

Answer 3

First reduce the amount of detergents that you use, then collect the waste water from your bath or sink etc - most houses remove waste water via an outside soil pipe that goes into the main drainage system - why not divert this into a rain butt/s. Then you can use the water on the garden. Waste from toilets must go to the system so that it can be purified by the digesters and then recycled back to you through the mains water supply, what do you mean you didn't know that you drink re-cycled water in the cities.

On a slightly different tack, does one really believe that there is a shortage of water in this country - the true shortage is in the WILL to collect, store and use all the water that we get for free from the sky. Water that could be used for domestic uses as well as used to drive turbines to generate electricity via hydro electric power schemes. A few hundred years ago water power provided nearly ALL our energy needs, domestic and industrial,surely with modern technology we could still use this undervalued resource!

Answer 4

I would of thought that you could easily use it for flushing the toilet. Just a thought.