- 1). Set a 5-gallon bucket in your wash sink beside your washing machine.
- 2). Take your washing machine drain hose and lift it into the sink so it rests beside the bucket. Begin your wash and let the initial soapy water run into the sink. As your washer shifts to rinse cycle, lift the hose into the bucket to capture the rinse water, which has fewer soap suds.
- 3). Collect the water in the bucket. Move the bucket when it is full, since you don't need any more water. Collect only as much gray water as you can use at one time; don't collect everything you can and store it for later.
- 4). Reuse the water around your home. Use it as mop or rinse water for house cleaning, or to wash your car, or in the garden. Plants can handle 1/2 gallon of gray water per square foot per week. Use as much of your harvested gray water as you can the same day you collect it, and discard any left over.
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