Reuse Water From a Shower - PEP BB greywillow.sand.showerwater

gir bot · Jul 21, 2021 17:38:22

Here’s my submission. Poo-less water (about 4 gallons) from shower. Feeding a thirsty apple tree and a thirsty avocado tree.

gir bot · Jul 21, 2021 23:50:37

I have been trying poo-less showers for about 3 months now. The bucket in the picture holds 15L (roughly 4 gallons). I used to the water to water one of our poplar trees.

gir bot · Jul 24, 2021 10:42:29

Reuse pooless shower water bb submission

gir bot · Jul 24, 2021 16:54:47

Reused a little over 3 gallons of shower water to water some mint. It helped that the shower was in a common house and was used regularly at the SKIP event. The water gathered rather quickly.

gir bot · Jul 27, 2021 14:49:49

For this BB I used water I caught from an outdoor shower. The water is well water and free of soap or shampoo. The bucket holds at least three gallons

gir bot · Sep 30, 2021 10:37:04

This took a little effort. After my first reading, I thought a pooless shower meant I could use grey-water-safe soap, like our Castile bar soap. But then, based on at least one of the other people submitting proof, decided it had to be no soap at all. So I dumped my first bucket and started collecting again. I guess I’m a water-hog though because I had more than three gallons after just two showers. I watered a bed of leeks and peppers with it this morning once it was light.

gir bot · Jan 31, 2022 11:17:14

While at Wheaton Labs for the 2021 PTJ, I collect water from the pooless showers and fed the growies on the hugelbeds.

Mar 19, 2022 22:47:33

Is this bucket ok? It took several showers to get this much, then hubby washed some dirty boots in the water! It's soapless, just has dirt.

Mar 20, 2022 06:51:02

It looks ok to me. It kind of looks like a standard "5 gallon bucket", might it be? Having a front view or confirmation about its size when you post would help the certifiers out.

gir bot · Apr 10, 2022 18:06:42

Took several poo-less showers and filled a standard 5 gallon bucket. Then my husband rinsed some dirty boots in it which is why it looks so dirty.

The watering can is 2 gallons so I filled it twice and watered in my newly planted broccoli and cabbage starts.

gir bot · Apr 27, 2022 05:15:21

Here we go, my first BB submission!

Left the bucket in the corner of the shower to fill up over a couple of days, all poo-less! Then used that water to flush the loo. I was quite surprised how simply it worked, turns out I've never thought much about the flushing mechanism of a toilet. The learning curve of SKIP has begun already!

gir bot · Jun 21, 2022 20:47:15

Saving soap and shampoo-free shower water for use on the landscape. If you take short, cold showers it takes awhile to collect 3 gallons.

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