Did you know that new greywater standards for California took effect last month? This is exciting news for California, and especially for activists like the folks at Oasis Design and the Greywater Guerrillas, who have been working tirelessly for this sort of thing for years.
Here’s an excerpt of a notice that was sent out [...]

From National Geographic News comes this interesting story and photo gallery: Fog Catchers Bring Water to Parched Villages.

Conservationists and biologists Kai Tiedemann and Anne Lummerich designed the fog catchers to help poor Peruvians who have settled on unclaimed land in the steep slopes around Lima. If the residents plant trees upslope and stay [...]

This 28-minute video from Peak Moment is a great introduction to household greywater systems featuring Trathen Heckman of Daily Acts.

Heckman is doing a heroic act by blazing a trail through the permitting process for the system. It’s important work; once a system is available as an example, it will be easier [...]

If you’d like to start recycling water but are intimidated by the details and cost of the project, you might want to start with a simple “laundry-to-landscape” system. This system makes use of the water you use to wash clothes, and the water pump that’s already part of your washing machine. Instead of [...]

What’s better than a good soak in a hot tub? How about doing it without electricity?
A number of off-the-shelf options are out there. Snorkel wood-fired tubs are beautiful and feature underwater stoves to heat the water. A great choice, if you can afford it.
You can also buy a Chofu heater. These [...]

(Update on meeting info – see below)
ere’s an important announcement from ecological designer and greywater expert Art Ludwig (via a post to the Permaculture-SF list). It’s about California Senate Bill 1258 and efforts to bring some sanity to California’s greywater laws; it’s full of important information and links:
Dear Greywater Stakeholders:
The greywater regulation revolution [...]

The Greywater Guerrillas are “are a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure.”
Their site is full of project resources, and they’ve published an anthology, Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, described as “a people’s history of water”. (Samples available on [...]

In a now-classic permaculture documentary, Geoff Lawton describes how water harvesting techniques quickly transformed a dessert into a food-producing oasis. This is probably the best introduction to the concept of swales that’s available:

And now, there’s a follow-up video that gives some more background, and an update to the project (this includes the video above, [...]