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HOW TO USE NON-POTABLE WATER TO FLUSH THE TOILET

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For a long time I have been thinking about solutions that allow the water from showers to be reused to fill toilet cisterns, avoiding using potable water, because it bothers me to see that drinking water is used when flushing the toilet and is lost. Surely there are other solutions, but no matter how much I look, I see that in new buildings there is still generally no system that thinks about this issue. I leave you here everything that I have already investigated on the matter, to centralize the information in the hope that there is some law that forces construction companies to get serious about the matter. What is needed Reusing shower water to fill toilet cisterns is a sustainable practice known as “grey water” use. Gray water is domestic wastewater from showers, sinks and washing machines, which, although not suitable for consumption, can be perfectly used for other purposes such as garden irrigation or toilet cisterns. To implement a gray water reuse system at home, several techn...