Efforts to collect and utilize rain water for irrigation are on with full gusto all over the world. Loss of this precious natural resource, rain water, because of surface run off during rain storms is taking a toll on water management systems catering for a growing world population. Only 2.3% of the available water on earth is able to be used as fresh water. To prevent more fresh water flowing int ...
The practice of collecting and using rain water off the roof top is no modern day discovery or exercise. People have being doing so all through time; ever since the non availability of the precious resource seeped in, especially during the summer months. The precipitation from a catchments surface can easily be diverted into a storage facility, either natural or man made and used at a alter day an ...
Rainwater is an important natural resource that is now a concern because of the surface wash off that has become an issue, considering the growing usage by a growing world population. However, necessity is the mother of invention and now there are a number of systems invented and designed to collect rainwater. The rain water collection systems include internal and external fixtures like tanks, bar ...
A rain water collection tank is storage to keep water collected from precipitation during the monsoons. The storage is also referred to as a barrel, cistern or water butt or by any other name. The function is the same – rain water collection. The tank is used to collect and store rain water from surface areas like the tops of roofs and hollows, natural or otherwise. The rain water collection tank ...
