In an unusually early dry spell Paihia’s summer visitors are showering all our water away and the Council has totally forbidden all use of hoses. Gardens and lawns are just dying all over town.
Our shower is over the bathtub so we are able to bucket out our used water to a hastily-purchased drum outside. From there we can run it to our little vege patch and so far everything is holding up pretty well.
Our shower is over the bathtub so we are able to bucket out our used water to a hastily-purchased drum outside. From there we can run it to our little vege patch and so far everything is holding up pretty well.
But on the bank below the house we’ve discovered one of our big rhododendrons is badly stressed and wilting. Years ago I installed a large drum underneath the house to divert grey water from the shower to the newer shrubs down the bank. The system hasn’t been used for ten years so yesterday I reinstated it.
There’s a light scotch mist this morning, so with a bit of help from the buckets the veges will probably survive the current dry spell with less inconvenience than most. Of course, this untreated grey water must be only a very temporary solution. And where would we be if the water supply that we still enjoy for showers and washing and cooking were to fail completely?
Like all of life, everything is temporary. It shouldn’t take a bit of a water shortage, never mind a Haiti earthquake, to remind us of that…
There’s a light scotch mist this morning, so with a bit of help from the buckets the veges will probably survive the current dry spell with less inconvenience than most. Of course, this untreated grey water must be only a very temporary solution. And where would we be if the water supply that we still enjoy for showers and washing and cooking were to fail completely?
Like all of life, everything is temporary. It shouldn’t take a bit of a water shortage, never mind a Haiti earthquake, to remind us of that…
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