Builder's Greywater Guide: Installation, Standards, and Science for Builders, Landscapers, Regulators, Policymakers, Researchers, and Homeowners- Includes text of current codes A supplement to the book "Create an Oasis with Greywater"

by Art Ludwig

The Builder's Greywater Guide is of interest to anyone getting apermit for a greywater system, installing large greywater systems,installing a greywater system as a part of new construction orremodeling, making a greywater system for others, working on theregulation of greywater, or with an academic interest in greywater. The Builder's Greywater Guide includes info for architects, landscape architects, and plumbers.
Topics Special reasons for builders to install or not install a greywater system, flow chart for choosing a system, suggestions for dealing with inspectors, legal requirements checklist, detailed review of system options with respect to new laws, latest construction details and design tips, maintenance suggestions, equations for estimating irrigation demand, and the complete text of new US greywater law with annotations and suggested improvements.
The book Create an Oasis with Greywater is required in order to most effectively use the "Builder's Greywater Guide".

55 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1999

About the author

Art Ludwig is an ecological systems designer with 35 years full-time experience in water, wastewater systems, energy, shelter and human powered transport. His specialty is complex, integrated "systems of systems." Art has studied and worked in 27 different countries, attaining fluency in 5 languages. He has consulted for the states of New York, California, and New Mexico on water reuse policy and building codes, and given dozens of lectures and workshops. He has developed numerous innovations which have been adopted worldwide, incorporated in building codes, etc., all of which he has published into the public domain. These include the Laundry to Landscape and Branched Drain greywater systems.

He designed his own education in Ecological Systems Design, graduating from UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, he developed the first cleaners specifically designed to be biocompatible with plants and soil, and founded a successful business to manufacture and distribute them. Art has authored numerous articles as well as the books "Water Storage" "Principles of Ecological Design," and "Create an Oasis with Greywater."

The past several years Art has dedicated approximately a thousand hours a year to public interest research and sustainability policy activism.