In today’s climate, many businesses, farmers and individual homeowners are looking for ways to conserve freshwater. Many dig deep wells, reduce their water consumption and even try harnessing one renewable resource readily available to us—rainwater. As one of the many ways of collecting and storing rainwater, rainwater tanks are becoming more popular across society’s sectors. While most rainwater ...
Rainwater collection has long been practised by communities all over the world. Not only is rainwater stored for outdoor use in farms or general household maintenance, but stored water (well water, specifically) has also been used for drinking in recent years and in far-off rural communities. Since the quality of rainwater has regressed due to the increasing number of pollutants mixed in the air t ...
Rising global temperatures means the amount of clean surface water viable for consumption keeps decreasing by the day. Furthermore, it appears this situation may not be changing for the better anytime soon. Due to this and the ever-increasing costs of municipal and facility-treated water, many people have turned toward rainwater as a viable backup source, especially in times of interruptions or dr ...
In recent times, droughts and expanding deserts, erosion from runoff, over-reliance on depleted water sources and the increasing costs of rural irrigation and water treatment facilities have all contributed to water scarcity. And if not addressed immediately, according to American environmental scientist Peter H. Gleick, an estimated 135 million people will suffer from water-related diseases by th ...
The tourism industry—specifically hotels, restaurants and some residential establishments—consumes approximately 84–2,000 litres per person per day and up to 3,500 litres per bedroom per day. Suffice to say hotels and restaurants are dependent on water, second only to air, for their day-to-day operations. But what happens in times of drought or service interruptions? Do establishments stop operati ...
Water is vital to life, as are air and food. As most of history has shown us, a source of water is key in establishing human civilisation, transforming us from migratory hunter-gatherers to, eventually, fixed farmers. Where freshwater was easily abundant and made available to us at all times, times have certainly changed as major droughts resulting in scarcity of all kinds have affected our qualit ...
A house’s kitchen must be the busiest throughout the day where cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner happen. Ingredients, utensils and work surfaces must be cleaned and washed after every meal, not to mention the mounds of kitchenware that need cleaning after. If one is careless, the kitchen can be a place where a lot of water can be wasted—and where a lot of money (from wasting that water) can be w ...
There is no denying in the necessity of collecting rainwater in this day and age of environmental conservation. Not only are you turning the stored rainwater into a renewable, recyclable resource, you’re also saving money from municipal water costs that come from using treated water for other household needs apart from drinking. The rainy season is right around the corner, and soon we’ll have to e ...
