Question on my social feed: How can you easily divert grey water from your place to your plants? Maybe catch the water coming out of your clothes washer hose in a container and put it into jugs to carry outside?
We don’t have a clothes washer at the house. (There was one here when I bought the house, and a dryer too, but I got rid of both to make an additional sleeping room.)
I hand-wash clothes outdoors in a bucket or small tub, and then distribute the water to shrubs and mulch piles and such.
(I have extensive experience living/training in arid environments, and also in camping/festival settings, so I know how to economize on water, so it is only ever very small quantities of water we are talking about here. A gallon or two a week at most usually.)
My current housemates use a laundromat.
Previous housemates have sometimes used a laundry service.
We wash our dishes outdoors, and distribute that small amount of water onto shrubs and mulch piles and so on.
I have experimented with washing indoors, saving the greywater and then transporting it outdoors. It worked OK, but the greywater tends to get nasty very quickly so it’s best to carry the jug/bucket outdoors and distribute it as soon as possible after washing.
I still prefer to wash outdoors, because it eliminates the extra labor of having to haul the jug or bucket through the door(s) from indoors to the outside.
Brad Lancaster, author of the bestselling “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands” books, has mentioned (when I heard him give a talk some years back) that he has an outlet hose leading from his washing machine to his yard. He rotates the hose among multiple fruit trees.