When you write about something like water, you run the risk of the material being biased with your point of view. I have realized my point of view is about water, just plain old water:  Conservation, reuse, cost of energy generating clean water, availability and contamination of water   I just read an article, which I found confirms what we all know about the US.  We consume more than any other country, and of course that means we probably waste more than any country. 

We Americans are a people that are the most giving and charitable on this planet, yet we waste more than some will ever have.  You cannot give water to other nations and people in need, but you can conserve for our future.  Please check out this link http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/water-solutions/just-the-facts-water-footprints from YES magazine’s new issue to see how much we consume and think that we could save 30 to 40% of our personal residential use by recycling our greywater to flush our toilets. 

Michael Vail, CEO of Water Legacy, was a featured speaker at the IAPMO Emerging Technology Symposium last week in Ontario, California.  Mike’s presentation was a roundtable discussion on the water reuse and cost of energy.  click on this site to learn more and see when the youtube video is available http://www.iapmo.org/Pages/EmergingTechnologySymposium.aspx.

Greywater and greywater reuse present an opportunity for consumers to reduce overall energy consumption.  We often times do not value water movement associated to energy conservation.  But if you use water in your home twice, as you do with the water legacy greywater resuse system, your contribution to the carbon footprint is less.