I save water whenever possible but we are a two person household where some of the neighbors are 5-6 person households with 5-6 bathrooms. This household uses far less water than most of our neighbors so I don't feel bad turning on the sprinklers occasionally.

There is nothing wrong, state environment and health officials say, with collecting water in the shower while waiting for the cool to get warm -- as long as it hasn't touched you. It is permissible, too, to collect and use water from the kitchen sink as long as it has not come into contact with food and other waste.

How would they know which kind of water you are using? If there are pathogens on my body, is that really going to affect my tree? I'm walking around with them on my body all day, any of them could've brushed off at any time.

I'm guessing these folks are trying to protect themselves from a future lawsuit. "We told you so!"

I have a well. I drink that!! But only after it filters through 448 feet of sand.

If people are not connected to public sewage system all their gray water goes to septic tank in ground and then goes into ground by drain lines. It is a lot better to put this water from bath into flower beds than septic tanks.

Most cities don't treat there waste water good enough before dumping into ocean are other local water stream.

I have a rent house in Winston-Salem and the city sewage line going by the house don't work (it stays stop up) and they will not fixed it.

Please tell me why it is better to pump sewage into the ocean than it is to water flowers with bath water.

I think that the way to do the watering.
I think lettuce would be OK to use grey water if none of the water hit the plant, but no need to take the chance.

I have a rent home where I cut the sewage line into two part. One part for bath water and clothes washer and kitchen sink.I have not set this up for watering, but may sometime.
The reason I did this was to cut down on the amount of water going into septic tank.