beavergod1
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At home I keep the grey water cracked open and let it dribble onto the ground in the backyard. Got to be cleaner than whats coming out of my septic system. If camping without full hookups I will drain 5 gal at a time into my 5 gal blue tote and dump it around a tree or bush at night. I make sure it not near any fresh water source though.
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r1Mk
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I'm still waiting to hear about the taste test.
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Strabo
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r1Mk wrote:I'm still waiting to hear about the taste test.
Bottle the stuff....Name it: GreyGold Natural RV Water, bottled at the source using high tech filtration system consisting of an old Nylon...
0 carbs, low sodium, tastes great.....
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longwayfromhome
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Start with full fresh tank. Water gets used for dishes and shower, goes into grey tank. Process grey tank output and return to fresh tank. Endless loop almost, barring evaporation and incidental loss from gunk filter. Right?
Any excess grey water that surpasses system capacity, coming from outside sources such as water bottles/jugs, rather than fresh tank, gets pulled from a valve in the top portion of the grey tank to be used for toilet rinsing.
Finally, process the sewage juice and port back to grey tank which, in turn, effectively double processes it back to the fresh tank.
There, we can now dry camp until the filtered "solid" sewage removes all moisture from the system. It may be possible, if you drink lots of bottled water or canned beverages that you could go forever.
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barry&vanda
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NASA has already solved your problem. Their system even turns pee into drinking water. An RVer's kit is available. Cost - $38 Million (plus shipping & handling). 
Re: Grey water routed to flush toilet: Do you know how stinky your grey water is??? After a while, your rig would smell so bad, you'd give up RVing!
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portscanner
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thinkpt wrote:portscanner wrote:The OP has brought up an interesting concept. Now take it to the next logical step. Put just a particulate filter on a line leading from the gray tank to a water pump. Connect the pump to the toilet. This will reduce your fresh water usage and extend your gray water tank.
Of course you would need some gray water in the first place in order to flush....
Now we are talking! Put a valve between fresh and grey at toilet, after a day, switch valve and use grey for flushing rest of trip. Lets make a kit and sell for a fortune. We may even get the greenies to love us.
I would be concerned that if you dont have a reliable anti-backflow device and the valve fails, you will have some rather tasty fresh water.
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Macs Dad
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Saw a guy last year dumping at the Dump Station at Doheny. He had some sort of waste grinder on his RV that the grey and black water is connected to. He turns the thing on while he's dumping and it grinds everything small enough to be dumped from a garden hose. Really fast to. Maybe that would solve the filter clog issue.
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grampachet
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If you used your grey water to flush your toilet I would be concerned with the particles in the galley water eventually building up in the valve and not allowing your toilet to seal properly.
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Strabo
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Macs Dad wrote:Saw a guy last year dumping at the Dump Station at Doheny. He had some sort of waste grinder on his RV that the grey and black water is connected to. He turns the thing on while he's dumping and it grinds everything small enough to be dumped from a garden hose. Really fast to. Maybe that would solve the filter clog issue.
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Born2RV
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I could never figure out what the Macerator was for until I spent 12 days boondocking. We used it to dump the black water tank into a port-a-potty. Worked good.
In northern Ohio, campgrounds do not generally have individual sewer hookups. They have a french drain for gray water and a honey-doo truck comes around for the black water. Had to buy a new cap for the gray water drain that allowed me to connect a hose. Worked OK.... Keep up the good work! You never know what will catch on and make you a millionaire!!
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