mandated grey water reuse

Clearly, water reuse not a gray area… Tucson Citizen... LEIGH JENSEN
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/all_headlines/94837 ...The city of Tucson is looking to take a positive step forward in water conservation by requiring gray-water harvesting. …All new homes built within city limits would be plumbed for gray-water harvesting under the proposed ordinance…. That used household water comes from washing machines, showers and bathroom sinks. It can't be used for drinking, but it can water desert landscapes. …The proposed mandate is an excellent idea for any community, but especially for Tucson, where we rely mostly on groundwater and where water always has been and always will be a precious resource… Commercial buildings already are required to harvest rainwater and stormwater runoff from surfaces such as roofs and parking lots….Also, commercial landscaping must "accomplish energy, water and other natural resource conservation."

I am addressing this request specifically to Director Steve Owens of the Arizona Dept of Environmental Quality.

Sir, I humbly ask you to give to all residents in your state clear, concise and understandable rules to permit environmentally safe installations to be installed not only in Pima County but thorough your state.

Sir, please, let me know, I am so way off base in my request…? I believe, Sir, I have a far better understanding than many of the implications in your current rule which chooses not to honestly address in any manner the environmental implications of greywater use.

I honestly support grey water use thorough our state. I do believe, Sir, you have the obligation to inform the citizens of Phoenix of the potential legal constraints they might find as their “grey-water” was sold long ago to Palo Verde Nuclear Power Generating facility about 45 miles west of town.

And, while you’re at it, Director Owen, who are YOU going to hold accountable and responsible for the short and long term operation and maintenance for all these grey water systems as right now, your dept chose to “cut and run” leaving that a total unknown. Or maybe the long term viability of our environment is not a consideration which your dept need be concerned…?

When we have for all of us a grey water reuse plan implemented state wide with honest permitting, construction and long term O&M oversight…. then “IT” will for me, be fixed…