Grey Water Rules

• Campers can brush their teeth at the sink/water bottle filling station, the gray water will go down the drain into the shower drain bin.
• This is the ONLY acceptable repository for grey water.
• Do NOT dump it in the portos

What is Greywater?

• Grey water is water that has been used for cooking, washing, dishwashing, or bathing and contains soap, detergent, food scraps, or food residue.

Why is it a problem?

• It’s hard to make it disappear.
• Almost anywhere else in the world, a campsite is near absorbent soil (filled with microbial activity, and usually with plants) where it is safe and decent to dump greywater.
• But it’s different on the playa, on dried clay, striving to avoid contaminating our surroundings.

Don’t dump it!

• Dumping large amounts of untreated water on the playa introduces contaminants and can turn the clay into instant slippery, sticky mud.
• This can make walking nasty for your neighbors, and violates Burning Man’s contract with our landlord, the Bureau of Land Management. You could get a citation and a fine.

What is Black Water?

• Black water is URINE, FECES, VOMIT, all of which must go in the toilets without any plastic bags or other material. See Private Porto