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Renewable Energy: Rainwater Harvesting
Rainwater Harvesting
Rainwater can be used for all outdoor uses: watering the garden, washing cars, cleaning patios, drives and windows, topping up swimming pools, ornamental ponds and hot tubs. With some plumbing alterations, it can also be used inside the house to flush WCs and feed clothes washing machines. Besides saving on drinking water use, rainwater use encourages less build-up of calcium deposits in appliances. The diversion of rainwater to the storage tank can in many situations attenuate flooding.
Each person in the UK uses about 160 litres of drinking quality water a day. Nearly half of this amount need not be drinking water. It seems crazy to bring in drinking water from miles away via your water board to water your garden or clean your car when you could provide water directly from your own roof. It is now recognized that the south east of England in particular is short of water (London has less water available per capita than Madrid or Istanbul). April 2007 was the driest on record, but then June 2007 was the wettest on record. The more water you can collect in wet spells, the more you will have when it's dry.
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