I’m in Melbourne and not hanging out for the introduction of stage four (although outside watering is not something I do except with reused water).

Your chooks sound better than ours, which are only interested in trying to get into the house.

We’re in Victoria. Haven’t heard any rumours about banning grey water. We’re on level four, so technically it’s no water outdoors at all.

As for causing more grey water use, I’m certainly thinking about the garden when the washing goes in. When stuff gets done is timed with most efficient use of grey water. I was serious about the bath. I don’t have a system for capturing the shower’s grey water (I rent, so no tapping the pipes), whereas I could bucket the bath.

As for use on food, my garden is completely food. My main concern about grey water is the risk of increasing the salinity of the soil in my garden beds. I try and combat the salinity by maintaining a large amount of mulch to develop a salt repelling microclimate. I heard of the theory from this permaculture vid on farming along the shores of the dead sea.

As for the yuck factor associated with using grey water on food, I just don’t understand it.

Linen suits? They always sound like a better idea than they look. Not great if you’ve got kids or like your food with tomato sauce, but I suppose a dashing young single type might j-u-s-t get away with it on a steamy Brisbane afternoon in a suitable beer garden.

I think the Safari Suit is well overdue for a revival, along with the Al Grassby tie collection and that stupendous, greasy quiff that Bob Hawke had in the seventies. I’m not distinguished enough to carry that one off either, but if my hair holds out until it turns silver like that, I’ll be quiffed and struttin’

Go on. Go the whole hog. A linen SAFARI suit …. ideal for all tropical climes, wet or dry.

If y’all are re-using ‘grey water’ that extensively, would it be possible to construct communal cisterns, with a sort of basic inexpensive gravel/charcoal filtration layer, so everyone in a given radius could siphon their grey water into it and then re-use it more efficiently for gardens and so on once it had had a basic run thru the filter and a nice distillation set-down in the cistern?