1. Contain it. The splashing from the shower has got to be caught and contained. If you're washing up, don't let soap, body paint, conditioner, etc. hit the ground. When you brush your teeth with toothpaste, don't spit on the ground, contain it and turn it in for processing or evaporation, or just spit in the trash. When cooking in the kitchen, don't just dump that water from the pots, don't just dump the gooey water from the ice chest where the food bag split open,...bring a container in which to CONTAIN IT.

2. Capture it. Bring cardboard to nail down under your vehicle to prevent the common fluid drippage from your brakes, oil, radiator, gasoline, etc., from scarring the playa. Capture it on the cardboard, then burn the cardboard before you go home, but remember to take the cardboard out from under your vehicle first and take it to a designated community burn station.

3. Bring it. Evaporate, Process and haul out your captured fluids, but if you're a part of the new Shangri-La Village (and I hope you are) then bring the rest of your dirty water over to the water reclamation plant, bring it to Water Log Steve. There will be a clear and obvious place for you to pour your used fluids through a simple particle filter as your dirty water contribution joins the rest of the happy waters at Water Log's Processing Plant. Unfortunately, this year Steve will not be prepared to take water from camps which are outside Shangri-La Village.

4. Dig it. When we fail or have a mishap and some fluid scars the playa, scrape it up and put it in the trash, don't just leave it there, and don't just cover it up.

5. Haul it. No matter how good we all are, no matter how thorough, there will be that last little bit of water or water scum on the last day,...the last bit in the evaporation pond, the scraped up playa we discovered got contaminated at the last minute, water from that last meal after the water processing plant has already been dismantled,... be prepared with a bucket or two to haul it out with you and dispose of it properly, and legally, on your way home,.... Off the playa.