Rainwater can be an alternative source of water and can be used by everyone who is resourceful enough. At this moment in time, underground rainwater collection system is very common. Almost all the household have begun to install underground water tanks because of how efficient it is in collecting rainwater. Collecting rainwater through the ground is not a bad option because of the features ...
Because clothes washing needs to be done regularly, and a lot of mains water is involved every single session, it’s safe to say that clothes washing is one of the culprits behind high monthly water bills. But if you substitute mains water with collected rainwater, the likelihood of having a high water bill each month is significantly reduced. The thing with substituting mains water with col ...
When it comes to the water that you can use for gardening, you have two options. The first is tap water. Already clean and safe due to the several processes it has gone through before it is pumped into homes and commercial and public utility structures, tap water is a safe choice. The thing is, there’s another, much better option—rainwater. Read on to know more about what makes rainwater a ...
Rainwater is a source of water that comes free of charge—it just falls from the sky after all. As such, it follows that the collection, screening, filtering, storage, and ultimately, the use of collected rainwater for a number of tasks that require water should help your household save money on monthly water bills. What tasks can rainwater be used for? Read on to know more. Gardening and Wa ...
Rainwater harvesting used to be a fairly straightfoward process—you just needed a clean plastic or wooden barrel, which you need to place under a downspout. Eventually, as technology advanced, the endeavour became more complex, and today, it involves not just any container, not just any catchment area, and not just any gutter and downspout. You need a quality water storage tank, an unpainte ...
One of the factors to consider during the purchase of rainwater tanks is the exact amount of rain that falls in your area in a certain time period. How is that computed? Read on to learn more. The first thing you need to know about rainfall measurement, as it is done by meteorologists, is that it’s measured in millimeters or inches. This is usually followed by a certain time period. As such, a rea ...
Is it safe to drink rainwater? You've probably asked yourself this question a lot of times, and you would not be alone in doing so. The answer to this age-old question is: yes, it is completely safe to drink rainwater, depending upon a few considerations. But we'll get to those considerations in a minute. Rainwater is the purest form of water there is. Compared to your public drinking water supply ...
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 ...
