Rainwater Harvesting

Rainwater harvesting simply refers to the act of collecting rainwater and utilizing it for domestic uses.
Depending on your personal water usage, only about twenty percent of your water needs to be drinking quality.

If you are using treated water for all of your needs, you may find that you are wasting money on expensive treated water.
By installing a rainwater harvesting system, you can use untreated water for many daily tasks and save the expensive, drinking quality treated water for when it is needed.

What Tasks Do Not Require Treated Water?

There are many tasks that do not require treated water.
These can include washing cars, watering plants and flushing toilets.
You may be surprised to learn that many schools, businesses and homes actually utilize rainwater harvesting units as a way to cut down on their daily living expenses and reduce the amount of treated water that they use on a daily basis.

What Are The Components Of A Rainwater Harvesting System?

In their simplest forms, rainwater harvesting units used to collect water for gardening or other outdoor usage may simply consist of a catchment area and a storage tank, as well as a way to access the water quickly and easily.
If you are going to be using rainwater for domestic uses such as toilet flushing, you may want to install a more sophisticated system.
These rainwater harvesting units are made up of several components.

They are:

• A collection area that traps the rainwater.
  This is usually located on a roof or other unobstructed area
• A transportation system for moving the rainwater from the collection area to a storage tank
• Particle filters to remove particulates from the rainwater which has been collected
• Tanks or containers to hold the rainwater which has been collected and filtered
• Pumps and water pressurizing devices.
  These will help move the water from the storage tank to the areas where the water is to be used
• Piping systems to move the water from the storage tank to the areas where it is to be used

How Can Rainwater Harvesting Save You Money?

By choosing to install a rainwater harvesting system, you can save money as the amount of treated water you are using on a daily basis will decrease.
The actual amount of your savings can vary from person to person and is dependent on their water usage and the amount of water that they are able to harvest from their rainwater harvesting system.
A conservative estimate is that for each square meter of catchment surface, you can expect to save approximately €1 per year.
Although this may not seem like a large savings, because of the low cost of these systems, they actually pay for themselves quite quickly.

Contact Us

If you are interested in a complimentary consultation, click here to fill out a form and schedule a complimentary meeting with our staff.

We can also be contacted at 1890 245 345 and would be happy to meet with you.