Sewage water doesn't have to go to waste.
Recycled water, or "gray water," is water that has been used for household activities such as taking showers or washing dishes. Instead of wasting this water, you can buy a number of devices to reroute it. Some are used to send the water to a garden or yard, while others are used to flush the toilet. The California "toilet-to-tap" initiative has successfully recycled water treated by local plants and rerouted it back to people's homes since 2008. While this can be done on an industrial level, it is dangerous to do at home.
Instructions
1. Collect the water at a treatment plant. This is done using underground pipes. In some cases, the sewage systems already installed are deviated to go to a toilet-to-tap treatment plant, instead of a typical waste treatment plant. A typical plant would then release the treated water, sometimes into rivers or the ocean, while other times it is stored in large under ground lakes called aquifers, which clean the water more as it slowly drips through layers of sand and rock to reach underground streams.
2. Suck the water through millions of tiny, hairlike straws to filter out bacteria and larger debris. Treatment plants, such as that in the Orange County Water District, can clean as many as 70 million gallons a day or more.
3. Use reverse osmosis to force the water molecules through sheets of plastic. Reverse osmosis is a process that uses intense pressure to press a liquid through solids.
4. Clean the water by exposing it to ultraviolet light and adding peroxide. This is the final cleaning step and is simply a boost to the other cleansing processes. After this process is complete, the water is actually clean enough to drink. This process has been safely used by many European countries, and Germany even has a water park that uses only toilet-to-tap water.
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