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Water is a limited resource, especially in many parts of South Africa. Using clean drinking water for everything — including watering gardens — puts pressure on household water supplies and increases costs.
Water is a limited resource, especially in many parts of South Africa. Using clean drinking water for everything — including watering gardens — puts pressure on household water supplies and increases costs.
Greywater harvesting offers a way to use water more efficiently by reusing water that has already served a household purpose.
Greywater harvesting offers a way to use water more efficiently by reusing water that has already served a household purpose.
Greywater harvesting can help to:
Greywater harvesting can help to:
Reduce the use of clean drinking water.
Lower household water bills.
Keep food gardens alive during dry periods.
Support household and community food security.
Build resilience during droughts and water restrictions
By reusing greywater, households and food producers can make better use of the water they already have, rather than relying only on additional water sources.
Greywater and everyday life.
Greywater and everyday life.
Most households produce greywater every day through:
Bathing and showering.
Washing hands.
Doing laundry
When this water is safely reused, it becomes part of a cycle of use, rather than waste.
📝Your water use
📝Your water use
Please complete this activity
Please complete this activity
Thank you for reflecting on your own water-use practices. In the next session, you will learn how greywater can be reused safely at household level.
Thank you for reflecting on your own water-use practices. In the next session, you will learn how greywater can be reused safely at household level.
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