Sea Dog wrote: I have never understood why grey water is such a big deal.
Any tenter that I ever saw simply dumped theirs on the nearest bush, guess it wahed off what they deposited on same bush after dark.
Maybe because a few quarts or even gallons of dirty soapy water is not quite the same thing as 30-50 gallons of it that's been left to ferment in a dark tank for a week or two - or more. Let's see - dead skin cells, hair, saliva and other bodily fluids, dust mites, insects, fungi, chemical residues, rotting food, millions of unidentified microbes. IOW, stuff that you washed off your body and living surfaces for good reason ...
Sure sounds like sewage to me! Wanna sniff some and give an opinion?
(And no - the bleach argument really won't cut it. If bleach actually did work on everything, the entire planet would be free of infectious diseases by now, the manufacturers would be even happier than they already are, and their advertising claims would be even more extensive.)
Sea Dog wrote: I have never understood why grey water is such a big deal.
Any tenter that I ever saw simply dumped theirs on the nearest bush, guess it wahed off what they deposited on same bush after dark.
I agree for the most part but in someone's parking lot? Don't you think that is a little over the top? I have smelled some pretty stinky grey water from peoples kitchens. See my comments several posts up.
Sea Dog wrote: I have never understood why grey water is such a big deal.
Any tenter that I ever saw simply dumped theirs on the nearest bush, guess it wahed off what they deposited on same bush after dark.
Maybe because a few quarts or even gallons of dirty soapy water is not quite the same thing as 30-50 gallons of it that's been left to ferment in a dark tank for a week or two - or more. Let's see - dead skin cells, hair, saliva and other bodily fluids, dust mites, insects, fungi, chemical residues, rotting food, millions of unidentified microbes. IOW, stuff that you washed off your body and living surfaces for good reason ...
Sure sounds like sewage to me! Wanna sniff some and give an opinion?
(And no - the bleach argument really won't cut it. If bleach actually did work on everything, the entire planet would be free of infectious diseases by now, the manufacturers would be even happier than they already are, and their advertising claims would be even more extensive.)
Serena it would almost like having inside pets that go outside from time to time would it not to say nothing about the dust mites and fungi we all sleep/live with. As bad as it gets we can live safer if we just will not come close to the germs, etc that are on all cell phones.
I was raised on a hog farm.
After spending a few years emmersed daily in varying amounts of pig poop, a few gallons of soapy water is nothing.
Speaking of which, good thing some of you never got in on an old fashioned threshing bee!
At meal times a large tub of hot water and a bar of soap was set out under a tree.
Ten or fifteen, dusty, sweaty farmers would each take turns washing, after about the fourth guy, the water was both black and thick.
A community towel was provided for drying, it also soon was black.
I do not recall anyone becoming sick or dying from this practice.
The modern phobia with germs is part of the problem why there are so many kids with allergies, they have had no chance to build up an immune system.
Kinda like the guy that was parked near us on Memorial Weekend. They had 13 kids - 2 adults and 2 dogs. We noticed a lot of activity all through the days and they were eal quiet after 9pm, but the old man tried to pull a fast one, before he went to bed, he puts a reducer on the drain coupler and lets it rip - ALL of it (it was past midnoite when this started)
About 3am, we get a HUGE downpour, musta dumped another 2" in an hour. His sneakiness gave all of us a chuckle the next morning. The saturated ground, coupled with tank water and rain sat in the "bowl" that was their campsite!
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At meal times a large tub of hot water and a bar of soap was set out under a tree.
Ten or fifteen, dusty, sweaty farmers would each take turns washing, after about the fourth guy, the water was both black and thick.
A community towel was provided for drying, it also soon was black.
Ya couldn't do that at WAL MART, cause there wouldn't be any place to check your GUNS, before ya checked the price of GAS.
Sea Dog wrote: I have never understood why grey water is such a big deal.
Any tenter that I ever saw simply dumped theirs on the nearest bush, guess it wahed off what they deposited on same bush after dark.
It's one theing to dump a gallon on a bush or on the ground where it soaks in. It's quite another to dump a bunch of gallons in a storm drain that flows untreated into a stream, river or the ocean. Sorry soap suds aren't good for fish gills. Even tenters don't dump their used water in the stream, unless they haven't a clue.
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