This sounds amazing. Was it just a proof of concept or an actual marketed product installed somewhere? Commercial or residential setting?
In practice there is a reservoir where the "almost clean" waste water (i.e. what comes out of the bath sink, bidet and shower/bath tub) is accumulated.
Toilets are fed by a pump with water coming from this reservoir, in practice you use the same water two times.
I’m guessing it never took off because we don’t have that much of a water shortage in most places that washing hands is a luxury.
Note this was many years ago...