In response to the drought, the Department Housing and Community has released proposed new graywater rules. The new rules would allow Californians to use graywater in more ways and for more purposes.
Graywater is untreated wastewater that does not include toilet discharge or other bodily waste. Since the last severe drought in the early 1990s, state law has limited the use of wastewater. Californians have been able to use it only to irrigate and that irrigation has had to be done by systems below the surface.
Last summer, the legislature passed SB 1258, which required the DHC to develop newer and looser graywater rules. The DHC had planned to implement the new rules in 2011 but has released them early becuase of the drought.
The new rules could take effect as early as August 4.
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