State bureaucrats have decided that you can now reuse bath or dish water (called gray water) on your plants. Seems other states have allowed the practice to go on for years with no public health harm as a result.
As a bonus, we now have a new paradigm for how to think about gray water. Barbara Hartley Grimes, from the Division of Environmental Health at the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said in November:
Just think of the reason you’re washing your body. You’re washing off waste. You’re washing off pathogens.
This week Bill Ross, secretary of DENR, said:
If water’s clean enough to bathe your child in or wash your dishes in, it should be clean enough to put on your flowers.
It is, however, still illegal to use an elephant to plow a cotton field.
