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Graywater
Treatment
Systems

Graywater - what is it?


Graywater comes from
Showers
Bathroom lavatory sinks
Clothes washers
It is NOT from
Toilets & urinals
Kitchen sinks
Dishwashers

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Emerging Products: Graywater Treatment -
Package Systems (for water reuse)

AQUS system by WaterSaver Technologies (U.S.)


U.S. field trials with prototypes
Now in production & marketing
www.watersavertech.com
Pontos AquaCycle system by Hansgrohe (Germany)
Hansgrohe a Masco company - wide exposure to marketplace
Installed in numerous applications
German manufacture
www.pontos-aquacycle.com/pontos/en/company/pontos.html
Brac system (Canada)
Being sold and installed in the western U.S.
Collect water from shower & clothes washer, use to flush toilet or
irrigate
www.bracsystems.com/home.html

Emerging Products: Graywater


Treatment - Package Systems
Rewater Systems (U.S.)
Long history in the West
Water from clothes washer (and other uses) to drip irrigate (subsurface)
www.rewater.com/
Perpetual Water (Australia)
Captures water from lavatory sink, clothes washer, shower, & tub
Various systems and applications
Treated water used for toilet flushing, irrigation, & general cleaning
Not yet available in the U.S.
www.perpetualwater.com.au/
Ecoplay (Netherlands)
Bath & shower water to the toilet
www.ecoplay.nl/en/index.html

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Brac system
www.bracsystems.com

Field trials in the


western U.S.
Collect water from
shower and clothes
washer, use to flush
toilet or irrigate

Brac
System

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Perpetual Waters Garden Angel
(clothes washer rinse water to landscape)

Pontos
AquaCycle
System

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Hotel Annex
12 rooms
(water FROM showers in 8
rooms TO toilets and urinals)


Single Family Home
(water FROM shower,
bathtub, washbasin TO
toilet)


Residence Hall
40 apartments
(water FROM 16
showers TO 40 toilets)


Conference Hotel
54 rooms
(water FROM showers and
washbasins TO toilets)

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Vocational School
750 students
(water FROM 16 gym showers
TO 8 toilets & 4 urinals)

MF Housing
45 apartments
(water FROM showers, tubs, &
washbasins TO toilets)

Package Graywater Treatment


Systems: the to do list

Must complete more field tests of the systems in real


world applications
Pontos AquaCycle system in California
AQUS system in California, Colorado & New Mexico
Brac system in Washington
Perpetual Water system in California
.in order to answer savings, performance, & economic questions

Must achieve consensus resolving health code issues


Special IAPMO task group underway

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Thank you

John Koeller, P.E.


Koeller & Company
Yorba Linda, California

for the
California Urban Water Conservation Council

Tel. (714) 777-2744


koeller@earthlink.net

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