RE: How to recycle rain water for use at home
We live in central Texas where rainwater collection has been
used for years and is currently experiencing a revival due to
ground water problems. I suggest that the folks in the video do
not have nearly enough capacity for periods when it doesn't rain
as much as predicted. Time will tell. Why don't they use it for
drinking as well, that is what ourselves and many others in central
Texas do. We have a similar filtering system as theirs with the UV
at the end.
We have a large system with 69,000 gallons of capacity. The
maximum we have collected so far is 64,000 gallons. In 2007-
2008 central Texas experienced an El Nino effect so that we had
to have water delivered. Since then we have had sufficient rain to
get us to the 64,000 gallon that I mentioned. However we are
being told by the local weather people that we are in another El
Nino effect but we still have about 55,000 gallons which will last
about 7 months.
