Core77's One Hour Design Competition: Water-Saving in the Bathroom
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA 
on 08. 9.07
Our pals over at Core77 have launched a fun new idea: a "One Hour Design Competition," where you take an hour out of your life to conceive, sketch and render a concept for a new life-changing design. The contest is only open for a week, and the winner gets a Nintendo Wii (which you can then mod it to run on solar power). This week's theme is water-saving designs for the bathroom, and they've already got a handful of great ideas.
"Bucket," pictured above (with a larger version below the fold), is the most "'duh' simple, elegant and low-tech" -- it's a bucket that sits in your shower and collects some of the greywater that splashes off in the shower, so you can use it for watering plants and the like -- while the more subversive "Decoy Drain" (also pictured below the fold) persistently floods the shower stall, forcing your lazy roommate to hurry up and get out. Check out all the submissions on their forums, and get all the details at their site. Remember, the deadline is Monday, August 13, so hurry up, save some water and win yourself a Wii. ::Core77's One Hour Design Competition
"Bucket" is an awesomely simple greywater collection device.
"Decoy Drain" uses the threat of a flood to inspire short showers and water conservation.
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Whatever about design....what about function ??? The soap / shampoo in the shower water will surely harm, if not kill, the plants! What if your garden was vegetables? I wouldn't want a shampoo tomato...
Anon,
This is about ideas and thinking creatively! If you don't want shampoo tomatoes then can you think of other places you could use the grey water? How about using it in your washing machine, watering your yard, washing your car. Those are just three ideas off the top of my head. Can you think of any more and try to contribute something constructive to your next post instead of just dismissing the ideas presented?
Actually, many soaps are mild fertilizers for plants; and if something is too toxic for your garden, you need a good reason (like, a prescription) to buying it as body soap and send it out into the water treatment system anyway.
The main risk with graywater reuse is that the microbes we are washing off will get back to us. So use shower water on flowers or trees; or try something like this greywater garden.
I really like the greywater bucket idea. Hope if it's made it's made out of 100% recycled something.
Or you know, you could just put some sort of pitcher/bucket in your shower.
But I'm not bashing. :D
well thats so help ful
idea is good
but check whether which type of plants u have
and surely its an idea
there is nothing u can call 'DESIGN'