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There is a wonderful booklet on Grey Water called "Not Just Down
the Drain" by Stuart McQuire, retailing for AUD$12. 59 pages.
It was produced by the Water Catchment Collective at Friends of the Earth
here in Melbourne, Australia.
It is available at FOE, 312 Smith St, Collingwood VIC 3066.
tel. (03) 9419 8700, email: foefitzroy@peg.apc.org

The author is Stuart McQuire, who currently works at Darebin Council,
tel (03) 9230 4462.  He is also a permaculture and environmental
educator, and has grey water systems at home.  And his house is the first
private house to be selling electricity back onto the grid, to CitiPower.
Tel. (03) 9383 5785

Permaculture Melbourne has organised a few site visits to other private
houses.  Probably i shouldn't give these details out here without the owners
permission.  I visited someone with a 25,000 litre rainwater tank under
the kitchen for water for drinking.  It is 10 or 15 metres froma very
major road, and after a year of Monash Uni tests, there had still been
no significant levels of contaminants (eg. lead, hydrocarbons) show up in
the water.

To find out about Permaculture Melbourne events, and read more about what
people are doing in the suburbs, subscribe to the PIE newsletter for a year
by sending $15 to 6 Derby St, Kew VIC 3101, tel/fax (03) 9853 6828

Adam Tiller
tel (03) 9419 1542
Email: adamt@peg.pegasus.oz.au
WWW: http://www.peg.apc.org/~pgan (Permaculture Global Assistance Network)


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