By Tess Wilson
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Q: The apartment complex I live in gets kudos for recycling water- water used for bathing, cooking, washing, and cleaning flows down the drain, gets treated, and is then stored in a separate tank used exclusively for flushing toilets. While I applaud the initiative, the water is not completely treated (hence not reused for any other purpose than flushing) and is greyish black in appearance and leaves severe streaks on the toilet. I have come to live with this and clean the toilet almost five times a week. The bigger problem is whenever I lift the toilet lid, several drain flies (or in this case, toilet flies! Gross!) fly out…
