The most recent issue of “Mountain Living” Magazine feature’s Water Legacy’s co-founder’s Edge House. The Beautiful home in Boulder, Colorado is part of the March/April issue specifically dedicated to “Green” homes.  Designed by Rodwin Architects, this home features numerous sustainable methods that go beyond the basic thought of energy conservation.  A near Net Zero Energy home, The Edge house, has solar, geo-thermal systems, low VOX paint in addition to smart lighting and the best water re-use system available.   Visit this link to view the article.  http://waterlegacy.com/pdf/Mountain_Living_March_April_2011.pdf

Earth Advantage Institute, www.earthadvantage.org, lists residential greywater re-use as one of the top ten trends for green building in 2011.  The article can be viewed at http://www.benzinga.com/press-releases/11/01/p758110/top-ten-green-building-trends-for-2011-selected-by-earth-advantage-inst. We have seen in the past few months, an attitude that insinuates greywater re-use for irrigation and toilet flushing is an acceptable practice for water conservation.   We fight city hall every day in order to get greywater standardization in place. Yet we know the tremendous difficulty in gaining mainstream acceptance of greywater re-use. The benefits to reducing consumption and energy along with it do not seem so apparent during the winter months, only when we are short on water in the summer.

Anyone involved in water knows that the droughts facing various parts of the world are being acted upon only when it is imperative water must be conserved.  The US will be facing severe water shortages as we progress into the next ten years.  So why the delay in rate of greywater re-use????  We, as water conservationists need to petition our local, state and Federal regulators to standardize acceptable greywater re-use guide lines.

So, while we find it encouraging that Green Building proponents see and understand the need for greywater re-use the truth is; Greywater re-use is still one of those things that just has not crossed into main stream thinking.  But the time will come when we have to consider do we really want to flush fresh water or use drinking water to irrigate our lawn?????

Today’s L.A. Times claims that 50% of the water used inside of a home can be used to irrigate or flush your toilets.  Really?????  These are things we as water conservationists already know, but how do we get our federal, state and local officials to understand that we demand this type  of conservation????  As I continue the quest for greywater re-use in toilet flushing and irrigation, I find there are so many people open to not flushing drinking water.  Yet, we are confronted with antiquated thought from our protectors, those who would rather flush fresh water so your dog doesn’t drink from the toilet. 

Check out the article and comment so we can see the number of people who care about water conservation

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/greywater-report.html

Denver Housing Authority broke ground on the $20.4 million project providing affordable housing for low income seniors this week.  Part of the program is a pilot project featuring Water Legacy’s Greywater re-use system’s technology.  Mike Vail, CEO of Water Legacy has been involved in the planning and engineering of the plumbing system in the project and is thrilled to see it come so far.  “We always knew the need for conservation of water would have to transition public and multi-family housing, and we are proud to be a part of this innovative project.”, He said recently. 

To view the whole story visit http://insiderealestatenews.com/2010/09/dha-breaks-ground-on-20-million-project/

Water Legacy’s quest is to replace the common misconception that we need fresh water to flush our toilets.  In the past year we have seen numerous quotes from highly credible individuals, that we should not use fresh water to flush our toilets.  But, quotes versus actual action don’t create sytems when you have resistance by local plumbing authorities.  Our goal is simple- Use a greywater system with recycled water to flush your toilets, this ends up with a 30-40% reduction in consumption of fresh water.  Check out this great blog by a person in San Francisco who will be using a WL55 in their new home design.  http://www.greenmodernsf.com/?p=42

Mike Holmes - Holmes on Homes, a Canadian publication asserts it is time to start using grey water to flush our toilets!  DUH!   We, at Water legacy have been saying this for years.  The time has come for the regulatory agencies to start mandating the use of greywater to flush toilets. I n this article it states:            “Grey-water recycling is a technology we all need to adopt to help conserve water.”  We have the technology!  It exists and it works.  Our water bill last month for water alone was a  whopping $12.00.

View this article at http://www.holmesmagazine.com/moremike_waterways.php.

The WL55 from Water legacy saves an average household 30%-40% of its residential water consumption!  Now that is saving water

Let me know what you think.

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.

How exciting!!!!  Today I was alerted to a blog, written by Kevin Geminiuc of the Colorado Green Tech Blog with a feature Article about Conservation through water ReUse.  The article succinctly describes the WL55 and describes the mission and product extremely well.  I personally could not have written it better.  So, I’d like to share it with you through this link and our Facebook page.  http://www.coloradogreentech.net/meetupblog/?p=328

Join Water Legacy’s mission of water conservation through Greywater recycling on Facebook.  We posted our page on August12th and we have over 20 members.  you can visit the site by visiting this link: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1262625671&ref=name#/group.php?gid=139009175085&ref=mf