Plumbing--Potable Water, Gray Water and Black Water

Continuing our keep-it-simple theme, the galley cabinet houses all our plumbing.  In the bottom compartment, there is the porta-potty, with room behind it to store the chemicals for the toilet.  A hatch cover secures the porta-potty with sliding bolt locks so it doesn't accidentally come flying out of it's compartment on a hard right-turn! 

When we lived in Arctic Alaska for nine years, a porta-potty was our only toilet, so while I wouldn't say a porta-potty is my first choice in sanitation, we are quite familiar with all technical aspects of this form of waste management!

The stainless steel sink is a standard home bar sink from Home Depot, with a Whale brand marine footpump to send clean water  from the blue tank to the sink faucet.  The gray water from the sink drains into the white tank below, and both are secured with a nylon strap.

For "on demand" hot water, we have a gallon-size coffee-pumper thermos like all gas station junk food shops have (not shown). That pumper pot is great.  It keeps water very hot for nearly 24 hours.  Whenever we make tea, we just boil an extra kettle-full and add it to the pumper pot.  A few squirts of nearly boiling water added to the cool water from the clean-water tank, gives us plenty of warm water for dishes or washing up.

For a full-on shower, we have a Zodi Camp Shower that we use outside.  We've used it on our sailboat, and it does a good job of supplying ample hot water and enough water pressure to get shampoo out of our hair, and make us feel like human beings again.

The foot pump for moving water from the blue tank to the sink can be seen sticking out of the side of the cabinet in this photo.  It is very easy to stick our foot around the side of the cabinet and pump the water.  The foot pump is out of the way and doesn't get accidentally pressed.