2006-08-13 16:28:58 · 12 answers · asked by Ruk 1 in Environment
See the system varies depending upon the geographical area where you are. Since the same is not mentioned, i think it is not practical type here all the methods you can try, so better go through
http://www.harvesth2o.com/
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2005-08/2005-08-30-voa2.cfm?CFID=40295114&CFTOKEN=17090928
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/spec/greenbuild/rainwater.html
http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/
http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/CES/yard/melon_patch/2005/jul05.html
All the best
http://www.dataconmng.com
2006-08-13 17:11:39 · answer #1 · answered by RAM 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We live in a high-rainfall part of NZ and all our household water comes from the roof. It goes into the guttering and then into a 3000 gallon tank. Every day or so we turn on a pump, which pumps it into a header tank above the main tank. You can never have too much storage. Even though our rainfall is as high as Seattle or Vancouver, we sometimes run low. You can even harvest water in the desert with vertical shade netting. The early morning dew drips into a trough. Our rain water is OK to drink. It tastes OK and we never get stomach bugs.
2006-08-13 16:49:18 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have gutters, the fastest way is to put a barrel under a cut off spout of your gutter which will collect 30-100 times more of water from a small rain compared with just putting it in the yard. Because the roofs large surface area funnels all those many many drops of rain to a few drains.
2006-08-13 16:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by j123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We helped a friend build a "grey water" system for his house.
All the water from the roof drains into a cistern in the attic. This is then used to flush the toilets. There's a float inside which switches back to the municipal system when the cistern is empty.
2006-08-13 16:37:50 · answer #4 · answered by cmriley1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, my basement harvests alot of water LOL
2006-08-13 16:31:32 · answer #5 · answered by GD-Fan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Downspout to a large plastic barrel. Only use it for watering or washing cars, don't drink it.
2006-08-13 16:34:43 · answer #6 · answered by foxray43 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rain barrels, with plastic tubes running from your gutter system to the barrels
2006-08-13 16:35:57 · answer #7 · answered by wormee38 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there must be more to it than this, but all i know is to put out a rain barrel and collect all you want.
2006-08-13 16:31:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dig a deep purified hole or build a swimming pool type thing
2006-08-13 19:32:55 · answer #9 · answered by energy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plowing clouds..
2006-08-13 16:30:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋