Rainwater Harvesting

Either you're living on the outskirts of town or within the city, there's no escaping nature's many form of precipitation—which commonly are rainfalls and snowfalls—and mostly the residue would just be absorbed into the soil when it reaches the ground, now the problem comes when most of the water won't be absorbed into anything it falls on, thus creating a surface runoff that could probably be a v ...

If you're a huge fan of the magical adventures of Frodo Baggins, Gandalf & friends, in the most successful movie adaptation based on a great novel by J. R. R. Tolkien—The Lord Of The Rings—then you are very familiar with Bag End or shall we say the hobbit-burrow, the place where it all began. The Hobbit house is a house that is built for the film itself and since then, it became a very well kn ...

  Australia is commonly known as the world's smallest continent but is somehow considered as the world's largest island–with its total area of 7,692,024 kilometres–along with the title, it is also considered to be “The Island Continent” for mainly because it mostly consumes its continent–Oceania. Pertaining to that, Australia's huge area gives the most diverse of landscapes consisting of moun ...

Rainwater harvesting is the practice of collecting rainwater that falls down a catchment area and keeping it in a water tank during rainy days. Before the rainwater is stored in a water tank, it falls first on a catchment area like a roof in your house, then it flows down a roof gutter before it is carried by a pipe down to a water tank. The process of rainwater harvesting shows that rainwater pas ...

Rainwater harvesting isn't just a thing from the past anymore, you can see local folks–especially those living in the rural areas–having their own rainwater tanks (which varies from concrete water tanks, steel rainwater tanks, and also various sizes from small to large rainwater tanks). People are also talking about getting one for their place or business too because it is used for catching rainwa ...

The Land of the Extremes–Australia really doesn't disappoint when it comes to being extreme, from the wildest adventures of Steve Irwin, to the exotic animals and insects scattered around, down to their craziest climates. They do have crazy climates in the land down under, heatwaves that running up to 45.6 °C in Melbourne and 45.3 °C in Sydney, in the year 1939 during the month of January, with th ...

  Water is easy to access. Just turn the tap or shower on and out comes water. Look around your neighbourhood and you could probably see fire hydrants, public taps, and other public utilities that require water to function. Look around in your home long enough and you’ll find last month’s water bill. So why bother with rainwater harvesting? Below are the tasks and chores that rainwater can be ...

  In Australia, rainwater storage tanks are a very common sight. After all, Australia’s citizens and residents are required to have them set in place in their homes, along with other parts of a rainwater harvesting system, such as pumps, a number of pipes, and filters. If you’ve always wondered why this is so, highlighted below are a number of benefits and uses of rainwater harvesting. 1. Coo ...

  Rainwater harvesting is a process in which the rainwater that falls in your roofs at home is put in storage and recycled. The runoff from your catchment area, which is your roofs, will be carried out by gutters and piping, then passes through the filters of your tank. This keeps the stored rainwater free from contaminants for future use. Given the important role of the tank, its quality wil ...

One of the first things to take care of during the purchase of a new home in Australia is the installation of a rainwater harvesting system that’s not just efficient, but also compliant with BASIX requirements. One of the ways to make a system compliant with BASIX requirements is setting up a roof made of material suitable for rainwater harvesting. While most materials used as roofing nowadays are ...