Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:08:45 -0700
Reply-To: David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
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From: David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Anybody use one of these?
In-Reply-To: <5753a3hflm3bab6mdp9avnjijb3diaib04@4ax.com>
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Please do not start a war on this. I would feel guilty for asking the question.
It is really simple, do as much as we can to take care of the gray water. That's
why I asked in the first place. I have a plan in mind to set up what I need to
achieve that. It's not going to be perfect. Just do my best and ask questions
before I go into a wrong direction.
Thanks for feeding back with great suggestions.
David
--- BA <oddstray@ODDSTRAY.COM> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:44:56 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >>> The problem will be how to collect gray water from the bottom. The
> >national parks I camped do not allow discharging gray water right on the
> >spot. How do you volks do on this? <<
> >
> >I have a grey water collecting "tray" type thing made of rubber that goes at
> >the bottom of the shower. It has a drain that connects to a hose.
> >
> >To be quite honest, I have it for show only for when the rangers show up.
> >It is big bulky and hard to manage. Once it's filled with water and you
> >start to pick it up to drain into the drain plug it becomes a big wet mess.
> >Remember, you're inside the shower trying to do this. Very impractical. I
> >wait until there are no rangers in sight and just dump the water out into
> >the poison ivy which is the required campground foliage in state parks.
> >
> >Bryan
>
> Yeah ... *sigh* ...
>
> We do that with our shower. And with our grey water, as long as it's
> not completely manky. But only when we can't find a "better" place
> for it.
>
> But ... imagine if many, many more people did the same thing.
>
> So. I'm balancing being out in the world and so affecting it against
> being totally ecological in the world so my
> great-great-great-grandkids can go out into a world in as good a
> condition as I found it.
>
> We (immigrants to this continent) don't seem to be doing very well at
> it. The First People's philosophy was, as I understand it, to not
> leave any trace of one's inhabitance. And looking at archeological
> evidence (namely, lack thereof), I think they had some pretty good
> habits!
>
> On the third hand ... aaaargh! .... there are so many more of us
> humans in the same square miles of earth ... how can we help but
> affect it ...
>
>
> (Don't even get me started on how we *so* *do* *not* belong colonizing
> the moon until we learn not to f*ck up the planet we're currently
> living on ... )
>
>
> B&S
> '87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc'
> SOCal
>
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