Is it just me? (It probably is!) But I've always had this assumption when looking at your gardening posts, that you had a nice rainwater harvesting system up, and you looped the used water back into a couple of cycles. So you can imagine my surprise that you don't have a graywater system ๐ฒ - though I am still fairly certain about the rainwater capture from your roof surface, even though I didn't see you mention it.
By the way, I am in no way advocating going 100% off grid. To me that sounds like unnecessary struggle. In my mind the best way is to stay hooked up to city water, and install various other systems to supplement it on the side. And this you are doing in various ways you're describing here, which I'm always excited to see. ๐
Nope. Could never afford the grey water system and we haven't been in drought for years now. Water here isn't that expensive and we are on town water so it wasn't the priority. If we hit drought again we may consider it.
Now I'm starting to wonder if maybe we mean different things by a gray water system... The simplest type is just draining your water into your garden, one sink at a time. But you probably meant collecting your gray water from all of your sources, and spread it out to where it's needed, maybe even with a nice reed-bed for filtration, perhaps feeding a pond... Yeah, those are the types that get me excited, but I agree, they tend to cost some money and a bit of work to be implemented.
Yeah, but that means adjusting the plumbing and so on and if we resold the house (like we have thought of many times) we have to change it back, becuase here in Australia they are assholes about having everything totally regulated and approved. If we had a pond close to the house, yeah maybe, but then we'd need a pump - it's just not set up that way. Money and time have definitely stopped us too - there's been other things to spend money on. Hell, we need rainwater tanks to start with, but we need about 10k for that, and right now we are pretty bloody broke!