Do you have a rain collection system?

meanwhile · #21 01/15/13, 03:01 PM

Here is our monster list of rain water sites. I have not updated it in a while so there are sure to be some dead links but most should be good. We spent a long time planning our water collection here. It was worth taking more time to plan so as not to waste money.

Rainwater list of sites:

Sites re Water issues: Rain Water Harvesting, Gray Water and Water Storage, including World Health Organization sites re Water projects in developing countries which are also good projects for any rain water project.

1. The Eco Tipping Points Project (India)

http://www.ecotippingpoints.org/ETP-...rainwater.html

2. Rain Water Harvesting (huge site with great information from all over the world)

http://akash-ganga-rwh.com/RWH/WaterHarvesting.html

3. More projects from India

http://www.karmayog.com/library/rwh14.htm

4. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (we have this book and he is considered one of the top US experts on Rain Water Harvesting)

http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/

http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/r...inforesources/

5. Rainwater Harvesting. Org site

http://rainwaterharvesting.org/

6. Rain water Demo sites

http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/r...tration-sites/

7. Do it yourself Water projects

http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Water/Water.htm

8. Oasis Design site (we have this book)

http://www.oasisdesign.net/index.htm

9. State of Virginia’s Rainwater Harvesting Guide and laws

http://www.cabellbrandcenter.org/Vir...g%20Manual.pdf

10. State of Texas’ Rain water guide

http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/publicat...3rdedition.pdf

11. NCSU Stormwater Engineering Group
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/stormwater
12. NCSU Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/
13. NCSU Cooperative Extension Service
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/
14. American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association
http://www.arcsa.org/
15. International Rainwater Catchment Systems Association
http://www.ircsa.org/index.htm
16. Texas A&M Rainwater Harvesting
http://rainwaterharvesting.tamu.edu/index.html
17. Rainwater Harvesting in India
http://www.aboutrainwaterharvesting.com/default.htm
18. Rainwater Harvesting in the UK
http://www.rainharvesting.co.uk/
19. Montana State University Rainwater Harvesting
http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/mt9707.html
20. Efficient Landscape Irrigation
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/programs...ion/publicat/w

NORTH CAROLINA sites for Rain Water Harvesting (includes articles about Drought and local news about rain water):
21. Water Harvesting at NC State University
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/topic/waterharvesting/
22. Business selling rain systems / Rain Water Solutions:
http://www.rainwatersolutions.com/

23. News articles about Rain Water “come back” in style to Harvest:
(most mention NC too even if the paper is from someplace else)
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article...EWS/809010373/
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008...ase-shortages/
http://www.prlog.org/10096416-grs-ra...ng-demand.html
http://www.slideshare.net/nacaa/urba...-presentation/
http://ashevillageinstitute.blogspot...g-post_29.html
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/972737.html
http://www.alternet.org/water/97455/...n_in_the_u.s./
http://www.news-record.com/content/2...e_of_rainwater
http://www.star-telegram.com/nationa...ry/873491.html
http://www.off-grid.net/2008/08/31/free-water/

24. Urban Waterways (an instruction book on how to pump the water collected / from NC State University
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/stormwater/P...sterns2006.pdf

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Awnry Abe · #22 01/15/13, 08:32 PM

We have a 1000 gallon cistern fed from our roof. Right now it is just capped off. By I plan on building a small greenhouse over it and taking advantage of some geo-thermal action.