Water Conservation and Gray Water Systems:
AJ Bair Mechanical LLC prides itself on being part of a nation of specialists that live in the real world and acknowledge and respect the idea that all systems are connected. We see ourselves, as well as our customers, as part of a very important system. We acknowledge and follow the perspectives of our government system, our economic system, and most importantly in our world’s nature system. By explicitly acknowledging nature’s connections and the need for us as a nature to conserve our valuable resources, we get a sense of pride in representing a company that is made up of individuals that are educated in a very special way.
What is a gray-water system?
Any water that has been used in the home, except water from toilets, is called gray water. Dish, shower, sink, and laundry water comprise 50-80% of residential "waste" water. This may be reused for other purposes, especially landscape irrigation. Ideally, a separate set of pipes will be installed for a gray water system. Water from toilets and kitchen sinks will go into the sewer/septic system. Water from all other sources will go into a basic filtration system to remove particles. From that point, the water can flow back to fill toilet bowls or in a sub-irrigation system to water lawns or trees.
Why use gray water?
It's a waste to irrigate with great quantities of drinking water when plants thrive on used water containing small bits of compost. Unlike a lot of ecological stopgap measures, gray water reuse is a part of the fundamental solution to many ecological problems and will probably remain essentially unchanged in the distant future. The benefits of gray water recycling include
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- Lower fresh water use
- Less strain on failing septic tank or treatment plant
- Gray water treatment in topsoil is highly effective
- Ability to build in areas unsuitable for conventional treatment
- Less energy and chemical use
- Groundwater recharge
- Plant growth
- Reclamation of otherwise wasted nutrients
- More Benefits
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