Evap / Shower stall combined?

[captain voltaveus]

Last year I brought out a evapotron based upon the circular pool method and it worked great. I've noticed some folks advocating for showering in a stall that one then transfers the water into the evapotron, others mention soaking old towels into the water and hanging them up to quickly dry out.

Has anyone out there simply pumped their waste water up from the base of the shower (once finished of course) and wrapped their stall with burlap fabric for privacy, and then distributed the water via a figjam cooler style irrigation hose setup so that the privacy material and stall becomes an evapotron itself?

I could envision showering, then once done turning on the pump and pumping up the water and having it flow down the sides of the shower stall.

[FIGJAM]

If you can get an even flow it would evap mucho water.

It will also smell!!!

[LowePro]

Well that is pretty smart! I have not tried pumping the water up into the shower 'curtain', but we do use old cotton bedsheets as the shower stall (rather than plastic curtains) and the stall is relatively narrow, in this way alot of the shower water bounces of you and evaporates from the curtains even as you are taking the shower. It made a noticeable difference. Fyi wet burlap is very heavy.

[Captain Goddammit]

Sounds pretty nasty.

[EGAZ]

With a couple of caveats.

Might want to treat the grey water before pumping up to the burlap/cotton curtains. I have been doing test showers/evaporation on my rig and a little bleach goes a long way.

No kitchen water, just showers. Food stuffs adds to the stank potential.

Don't see why it wouldn't work.

[motskyroonmatick]

There are health safety reasons to separate shower grey water evaporation from places where you clean yourself. In my experience on playa heavy chlorine treatment of grey water in a circulating aerating system only holds the stink/bacterial growth away for about 6 hours. That's a pretty frequent treatment regimen to keep on top of it. I think shower curtains are gross. I'd be really grossed out by a shower curtain that was being used to evaporate body wash grey water right up until I took a shower next to it. FWIW.

[some seeing eye]

Bleach can be used for disinfection, but there are a lot of variables. First, the basic, high PH makes it less effective. Second sunlight deactivates it. Third there is a huge load of organic material and brine shrimp in playa dust about 25% by weight which are going to consume the chlorine.

So if you would like to experiment with bleach as a disinfectant, go for it. But don't trust it.

To the OP, have to agree with the others, not a good idea to mix shower curtain with evap surface area. But if you try it, report back!

(When I worked in an outdoor swimming pool, we had to test the chlorine every hour and adjust the flow of the chemical into the water)