Try it, we think it works and every little water saving effort helps.

[karen_in_nh_2012]

OP, you keep saying "Bob says" and "Bob thinks" ...

So my question for you is: who is Bob? Your boyfriend? And he is an authority on all of this ... um ... how?

[elnina]

I have friend who collects rain water for a bath. He has a galvanized steel tub in the backyard. It works for him, wouldn't work for me as we don't get rain very often.
I don't have dryer by a choice, so I dry everything on a line, sadly not in backyard, because it's full of big mature trees.
OP's towels will get dry outdoors, but to remove hair and dead skin they would require very strong winds. And I agree, any stains or oil won't be removed. It might work for 3-4 showers, but after that they should be washed.

The reusing of bath/shower water is a great idea. It works already in sink/commode combo. But, it's more complicated due to the bath water storage and sediments, that might smell after few days of storage.
Some of the greywater can be directly diverted from the shower or bathroom sink for toilet flushing, as long as it is used immediately and not stored for more than 24 hours before reuse or disposal to sewer. It would require coarse filtration.
If you store it longer, it probably would need some sort of treatment and disinfection system, approved in your state unless you live rural with no regulations.

[tnff]

Originally Posted by guidoLaMoto

If you live where you need to conserve water, maybe you aren't meant to live there.

In Chicago-- annual rainfall is 35inches-- and sitting on the banks of lakes totaling 20% of all fresh water in the world, they turn on the water fountains & wadingpools/showers in over 100 neighborhood playlots & parks in April and they run 24 hrs a day until mid-October. ...Saving a gallon of water there won't help anybody in Phoenix where they're runnng the Colorado River so dry that it's the only river in the world that doesn't empty into a larger body of water-- it now just fizzles out in the desert.

Same thing here. Around here we aren't really using a gallon of water. We're just temporarily diverting it on its journey. Most years, the problem isn't too little water, it's too much. The ground will only hold so much, and the surface will only drain so fast.

[Hemlock140]

The savings in water is minimal over washing both towels only once a week. For us, even if that worked great for you, wouldn't work for us, with reliable sun only in July and August.